https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8f51
The Astrophysical Journal, 848:132 (22pp), 2017 October 20
© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
GASP. III. JO36: A Case of Multiple Environmental Effects at Play?
Jacopo Fritz1 , Alessia Moretti2 , Marco Gullieuszik2 , Bianca Poggianti2 , Gustavo Bruzual1 , Benedetta Vulcani2,3 ,
Fabrizio Nicastro4 , Yara Jaffé5, Bernardo Cervantes Sodi1 , Daniela Bettoni2 , Andrea Biviano5 , Giovanni Fasano2,
Stéphane Charlot6 , Callum Bellhouse7,8 , and George Hau8
1
Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, UNAM, Campus Morelia, A.P. 3-72, C.P. 58089, Mexico;
[email protected]
2
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, Padova, Italy
3
School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Swanston St. & Tin Alley Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
4
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via di Frascati 33, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone, RM, Italy
5
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G. B. Tiepolo 11, I-34131, Trieste, Italy
6
Sorbonne Universités, UPMC-CNRS, UMR7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014 Paris, France
7
University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
8
European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Casilla 19001, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Received 2017 April 13; revised 2017 September 15; accepted 2017 September 21; published 2017 October 24
Abstract
The so-called jellyfish galaxies are objects exhibiting disturbed morphology, mostly in the form of tails of gas
stripped from the main body of the galaxy. Several works have strongly suggested ram pressure stripping to be the
mechanism driving this phenomenon. Here, we focus on one of these objects, drawn from a sample of optically
selected jellyfish galaxies, and use it to validate SINOPSIS, the spectral fitting code that will be used for the analysis
of the GASP (GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE) survey, and study the spatial distribution and
physical properties of the gas and stellar populations in this galaxy. We compare the model spectra to those
obtained with GANDALF, a code with similar features widely used to interpret the kinematics of stars and gas in
galaxies from IFU data. We find that SINOPSIS can reproduce the pixel-by-pixel spectra of this galaxy at least as
well as GANDALF does, providing reliable estimates of the underlying stellar absorption to properly correct the
nebular gas emission. Using these results, we find strong evidences of a double effect of ram pressure exerted by
the intracluster medium onto the gas of the galaxy. A moderate burst of star formation, dating between 20 and
500 Myr ago and involving the outer parts of the galaxy more strongly than the inner regions, was likely induced
by a first interaction of the galaxy with the intracluster medium. Stripping by ram pressure, plus probable gas
depletion due to star formation, contributed to create a truncated ionized gas disk. The presence of an extended
stellar tail on only one side of the disk points instead to another kind of process, likely gravitational interaction by a
fly-by or a close encounter with another galaxy in the cluster.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: individual (Abell 160) – galaxies: evolution – galaxies: general – galaxies: ISM –
galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
in the cluster; Moore et al. 1996), starvation/strangulation (the
removal, during the cluster collapse, of the galactic gas halo
which fuels the star formation; Larson et al. 1980; Balogh
et al. 2000), ram pressure stripping (the removal of the
interstellar gas by means of high-velocity interactions with the
ICM; e.g., Gunn & Gott 1972; Takeda et al. 1984; Faltenbacher
& Diemand 2006), thermal evaporation (Cowie & Songaila
1977), major and/or minor mergers (e.g., Toomre 1977;
Tinsley & Larson 1979; Mihos & Hernquist 1994;
Springel 2000), or tidal effects of the cluster as a whole (e.g.,
Byrd & Valtonen 1990; Valluri 1993).
As the star formation history of a galaxy crucially depends
on the amount of gas available, processes removing, adding, or
even perturbing the gas ultimately determine the evolution and
fate of a galaxy, at least as far as the stellar content is
concerned.
Evidences of abruptly interrupted star formation due to gas
removal (e.g., Steinhauser et al. 2016) as well as of
enhancement of star formation (Boselli & Gavazzi 2006) are
found in the cluster galaxy population. The latter phenomenon,
in particular, is believed to be caused by the early effect of the
ram pressure of the hot ICM that compresses the gas of the
galaxy providing the dynamical instabilities needed to kickstart a star formation event (see, e.g., Crowl & Kenney 2008;
1. Introduction
The evolution of galaxies is driven by physical mechanisms
of either internal or external nature. Among the internal ones
are the processes related to stellar evolution (e.g., star
formation activity, Kennicutt 1998; Kennicutt & Evans 2012;
Madau & Dickinson 2014; supernova explosions, Burrows
2000; France et al. 2010; Marasco et al. 2015; Fielding
et al. 2017), nuclear activity (accretion on a supermassive black
hole and the related release of mechanical energy, Silk &
Rees 1998; Fabian et al. 2003; Croton et al. 2006; McNamara
& Nulsen 2007), and to the whole structural configuration of
the different components (e.g., angular momentum reconfiguration
by stellar bars, Hohl 1971; Weinberg 1985; Debattista &
Sellwood 2000; Athanassoula 2002; Martinez-Valpuesta et al.
2006). As for the external ones, interactions with galaxies, with the
gravitational potential of large, massive structures (such as galaxy
groups or clusters), and with the dense, hot gas of the intracluster
medium (ICM) are among those playing a major role.
Several such environment-dependent processes have been
identified and proposed to explain the different evolutive paths
that galaxies in clusters follow with respect to isolated galaxies,
both regarding their stellar content (or, equivalently, their star
formation history) and their morphology. These include
harassment (repeated high-velocity encounters with galaxies
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Steinhauser et al. 2012; Ebeling et al. 2014; Bischko
et al. 2015; Merluzzi et al. 2016).
A spectacular example of distorted morphologies due to gas
losses is the so-called jellyfish galaxies. First dubbed as such by
Smith et al. (2010b) to describe the appearance of the filaments
and knots departing from the main body of the galaxy, these
objects are mostly found in clusters both locally (see, e.g.,
Fumagalli et al. 2014; Abramson et al. 2016; Merluzzi et al.
2016) and at high redshift (e.g., Cortese et al. 2007; Ebeling
et al. 2014; McPartland et al. 2016). The availability of new
generation Integral Field Units (IFU), such as the Multi Unit
Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on 8 m class telescopes, has
opened a new window to study the physical processes at play in
these galaxies.
GASP9 (GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE)
is an ESO large program (P.I. B. Poggianti) that uses the
second-generation IFU MUSE mounted on the Nasmyth focus
of the UT4 at the VLT to observe a sample of 124 low-redshift
(z = 0.04–0.07) galaxies with evidence of disturbed morphology in optical images of clusters from the WINGS/
OmegaWINGS project (Fasano et al. 2006; Gullieuszik
et al. 2015). GASP was granted 120 hr of time spread over
four semesters from Period 96 (2015 October), and the second
half of the observational campaign is currently being
performed.
The ultimate goal of this project is to take a step forward in
the understanding of the processes that remove gas in galaxies,
halting the ongoing star formation processes. To what extent is
the environment playing a role in gas stripping? Where is this
more efficient? Why is it occurring and by which mechanism
(s)? These are the most urgent questions that this project tries to
address. We refer the reader to Poggianti et al. (2017) for a
more detailed presentation of the survey, its characteristics, and
its goals.
In this work, we focus on JO36, a galaxy drawn from the
GASP sample. In the first part of the paper, we present an
updated and improved version of SINOPSIS, the spectrophotometric fitting code we adopt for the spectral analysis of
the whole survey, and use MUSE data of this object as a test
case to validate the code. To this aim, we perform a comparison
between SINOPSIS and GANDALF (Sarzi et al. 2006), a similar
code that has been widely used to interpret the kinematics of
stars and gas in galaxies from IFU data.
In the second part of the paper, we use the outputs of
SINOPSIS to characterize the properties and distribution of the
stellar populations in the galaxy and give an interpretation of its
observed characteristics in relation to its position and
dynamical status within its host cluster. Exploiting archival
data, we calculate the dust mass and use this to derive an
estimate of the total gas mass, while X-ray observations are
used to constrain the possible presence of an active galactic
nucleus (AGN).
As in all papers of the GASP series, we will assume a
standard ΛCDM cosmology, with H0 = 70 , WM = 0.3, and
WL = 0.7. Similarly, stellar masses and star formation rates are
calculated assuming a Chabrier (2003) initial mass function
(IMF). An observed redshift of 0.04077 like that of the galaxy
under investigation, in this cosmology, corresponds to a
luminosity distance of 180.0 Mpc and to an angular scale of
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0 81/kpc, which results in a physical spaxel size of about 160
pc/spaxel for MUSE.
2. The Spectral Fitting Code
In this section, we summarize the main features of SINOPSIS
and describe new implementations and improvements with
respect to its older versions.
2.1. Modeling Details
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SINOPSIS (SImulatiNg OPtical Spectra wIth Stellar population models) is a spectrophotometric fitting code that
reproduces the main features of galaxy spectra in the ultraviolet
to near-infrared spectral range. Here we summarize the most
important aspects of SINOPSIS. We refer the reader to previous
papers describing in detail the code’s approach, its main
characteristics, and the reliability of its performance (Fritz
et al. 2007, 2011). The reader who is not interested in the
technical details can safely skip this section and go directly to
Section 3.
SINOPSIS has its roots on the spectral fitting code used by
Poggianti et al. (2001) to reproduce the stacked optical spectra
of a sample of luminous infrared galaxies of different spectral
types. Since then, it has been successfully applied to derive the
physical properties (stellar mass, dust attenuation, star formation history, mean stellar ages, etc.) of galaxies in various
samples (Dressler et al. 2009; Fritz et al. 2011; Guglielmo et al.
2015; Vulcani et al. 2015; Cheung et al. 2016; Paccagnella
et al. 2016). The code has been validated both by fitting
simulated spectra of galaxies (Fritz et al. 2007) and by
comparison with the results from other data sets and models
(Fritz et al. 2011). Nowadays, SINOPSIS has been used to fit
several thousands of optical spectra.
A number of other codes that serve similar purposes and are
commonly used to derive the properties of the stellar populations
and extinction in galaxies from their optical spectra, including,
e.g., STARLIGHT (Cid Fernandes et al. 2005), STECKMAP (Ocvirk
et al. 2006), VESPA (Tojeiro et al. 2007), GOSSIP (Franzetti et al.
2008), ULySS (Koleva et al. 2009), POPSYNTH (MacArthur et al.
2009), FIREFLY (Wilkinson et al. 2015), and FIT3D (Sánchez
et al. 2016; but this list is most likely incomplete), can be found
in the literature. SINOPSIS shares similar features with some of
these codes while including substantial improvements.
In order to reproduce an observed spectrum, the code
calculates the average value of the observed flux in a
predefined set of spectral bands (see Table 1 for the set used
in the MUSE data analysis), accurately chosen for the lack of
prominent spectral features such as emission and absorption
lines, and the equivalent width values of significant lines (i.e.,
the hydrogen lines of the Balmer series, the calcium H and K
lines, plus the [O II] 3727 Å line, if present within the observed
wavelength range), both in emission and in absorption. It then
compares them to the same features in a theoretical model,
which is created as follows.
From a set of ∼200 mono-metallicity simple stellar
population (SSP) spectra with ages spanning the range between
104 and 14 ´ 109 years, SINOPSIS creates a new set, with a
reduced number of model spectra, by binning the models of the
original grid with respect to the SSP’s age. In this way, the
number of theoretical spectra shrinks to only 12 for any given
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SINOPSIS is publicly available under the MIT open source licence and can be
downloaded from http://www.irya.unam.mx/gente/j.fritz/JFhp/SINOPSIS.html.
http://web.oapd.inaf.it/gasp/index.html
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Table 1
List of Photometric Windows, Defined by the Respective Lower and Upper
Wavelengths, where the Continuum Flux is Calculated to Compare
Observed and Model Spectrum
Table 2
Maximum and Minimum Values Allowed for the Extinction, Parametrized by
the Color Excess E (B - V ) and the SFR as a Function of the SSP’s Age
(the Latter Expressed in Years)
#
linf
l sup
Age
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
4600
4845
4858
4870
5040
5210
5400
5650
5955
6150
6400
6620
6820
7110
4750
4853
4864
4878
5140
5310
5500
5800
6055
6250
6490
6690
6920
7210
2´
4 ´ 10 6
6.9 ´ 10 6
2 ´ 107
5.7 ´ 107
2 ´ 108
5.7 ´ 108
109
3 ´ 109
5.7 ´ 109
1010
1.4 ´ 1010
10 6
E(B – V )min
E(B – V )max
SFRmin
SFRmax
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.00
0.80
0.40
0.40
0.40
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.08
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
Note. Note that the upper values for the SFR are normalized to the oldest SSP.
metallicity value. The choice of age bins is made based on the
presence and intensity of spectral features as a function of age
(see Fritz et al. 2007 for more details).
Each of these spectra is multiplied by an appropriate guess
value of the stellar mass, and then dust attenuation is applied
before the spectra are summed together to yield the final model.
The combination of parameters that minimizes the differences
between the constraints in the observed and model spectra is
randomly explored by means of a simulated annealing
algorithm. The range of values within which the search is
performed is given in Table 2. The large range of extinction
values that we allow is mainly meant to give a high degree of
flexibility to the code, making it able to deal with galaxies
having even “extreme” properties, without the need for further
tuning.
simplification, Liu et al. (2013) have shown that a foreground
dust screen reproduces well the effects of dust on starlight at
large scales. Furthermore, the mix of stellar ages and extinction
can be naturally taken into account by the age-dependent way
of treating the dust attenuation allowed by SINOPSIS.
Different extinction and attenuation laws can be chosen
including, among others, the attenuation law from Calzetti et al.
(1994), the average Milky Way extinction curve (Cardelli
et al. 1989), or the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds curves
(Fitzpatrick 1986). Throughout this work and in all of the
papers of the GASP series, we adopt the Milky Way extinction
curve (RV=3.1).
2.3. Spectral Lines
Another key feature of SINOPSIS is the use of SSP models for
which we have calculated the effect of nebular gas emission.
Other models in the literature combine the effect of stellar and
nebular emission, including, e.g., the works by Gutkin et al.
(2016), Byler et al. (2017; but see also the pioneering work of
Charlot & Longhetti 2001), who present models with both
components, and Pacifici et al. (2012) and Chevallard &
Charlot (2016), who describe an application of such kind of
model to observed data.
SINOPSIS has had nebular emission lines included since its
very first version (Poggianti et al. 2001, but see also Berta
et al. 2003 and Fritz et al. 2007); these now have been
recalculated for the new SSP models.
Including nebular emission lines in SSP spectra is a great
advantage for a number of reasons: emission lines in the
observed spectra do not need to be masked for the fitting, a
reliable value for dust extinction can be calculated (even when
Hβ is not observed), and star formation rates can be
automatically estimated as well. Last but not least, especially
for the purposes of the GASP project, correction of the
underlying absorption in Balmer lines is performed in a selfconsistent way by simultaneously taking into account both the
absorption and emission components.
The calculation of the line intensities is obtained by
preprocessing the SSP’s spectral energy distribution (SED)
with ages 5 ´ 107 years through the photoionization code
CLOUDY (Ferland 1993; Ferland et al. 1998, 2013). The
2.2. The Treatment of Dust Extinction
One of the distinctive features of SINOPSIS is that it makes it
possible to allow for differential extinction as a function of
stellar age. In this way, the code simulates a selective extinction
effect (Calzetti et al. 1994), where the light emitted by the
youngest stellar populations is most likely to be affected by the
presence of dust, which is typically abundant in star-forming
molecular complexes. Once a stellar population ages, it
progressively gets rid of this interstellar medium envelope,
either by means of supernova explosions, which will blow it
away, or because of the proper motions of the star clusters, or
by a combination of the two effects.
Dust is found in the interstellar medium and is well mixed
with the stars. A proper treatment of its extinction effect on the
starlight would require the use of radiative transfer models,
which can fully take into account the 3D geometry of dust and
stars, and their relative distribution (see, e.g., the review by
Steinacker et al. 2013). This is prohibitive for two reasons: one
is the computational effort required to calculate such kinds of
models, and the second is the lack of a detailed enough
knowledge of the spatial distribution of these two components
in any given galaxy.
Just like many other spectral fitting codes, SINOPSIS includes
the effect of dust extinction by modeling it as a uniform dust
layer in front of the source. Although this is indeed a
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luminosity of the Hα line from our CLOUDY modeling,
corresponding to a constant star formation rate over 107 years
and checked that this value is consistent with the factor
typically used to convert a Hα luminosity into a star formation
rate value. We found a good agreement when considering a
Chabrier (2003) IMF (see Kennicutt & Evans 2012 for a
recalibration of this SFR indicator), as it is the case for the SSP
version (discussed below) currently implemented in SINOPSIS.
As for the dust extinction calculations, the ratio between the
observed intensities of the Hα and Hβ lines is commonly used,
exploiting the fact that, in normal star-forming and H II regions,
its theoretical expected value is ∼2.86 (see, e.g., Osterbrock &
Ferland 2006). Indeed, the ratio of the luminosities of the two
lines we calculated in spectra of various ages is 2.88, which is
very close to the aforementioned theoretical value.
Table 3
List of Spectral Emission and Absorption Lines that are Used, when Available,
to Constrain the Model’s Parameters
#
Line
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
[O II]
CaK
CaH+Hò
Hδ
Hγ
*
Hβ
*
Hα
lc
3727
3933.6
3969
4101.7
4340.5
4861.3
6562.8
Note. Lines indicated with an “∗” are the ones contained within the wavelength
range sampled by MUSE and are hence the only ones we use in this work and
in all of the papers from the GASP series.
2.4. Recovered Parameters and Uncertainties
adopted parameters are those typical of an H II region (see also
Charlot & Longhetti 2001): hydrogen average density of 102
atoms cm−3, a gas cloud with an inner radius of 10−2 pc, and a
metal abundance corresponding to the metallicity of the
relative SSP.
Note that only SSPs with ages less than 2 ´ 107 years have a
strong enough UV continuum to produce detectable emission
lines and are, hence, the only ones for which gas emission is
included.
The luminosity in the following hydrogen line series is
computed: Balmer (from Hα to Hò), Paschen (from Paα to
Paδ), Brackett (from Brα to Brδ), and Lyman (Lyα and Lyβ).
The luminosity of UV and optical forbidden lines from various
other elements (such as [O I], [O II], and [O III], [N II], [S II],
and [S III]) is calculated as well. The latter are not used as
constraints in the fitting procedure, as their intensities are
dependent on several physical parameters (such as gas
metallicity, geometry, electron temperature, electron density,
ionization source, and dust depletion) whose determination is,
at the moment, well beyond the scope of SINOPSIS.
Table 3 reports the list of spectral lines that are used as
constraints in the spectral fits. The choice of the lines to be
reproduced by the model is dictated mostly by the availability
of a good physical characterization and understanding of the
physical processes driving their intensities. This is why
forbidden lines are not included, with the exception of the
[O II] doublet at 3726, 3729 Å. Other absorption lines, such as
the NaD doublet at 5890, 5896 Å, and the Mg line at 5177 Å,
have a strong dependence on the α enhancement (e.g.,
Wallerstein 1962; Thomas et al. 1999) and on the presence
of dust (this is the case with the sodium doublet; see e.g.,
Poznanski et al. 2012). As these features are not included in the
theoretical models, we do not attempt to reproduce them.
On the other hand, the intensity of the [O II] doublet was
found to correlate with the intensity of Hα (e.g., Moustakas
et al. 2006; Weiner et al. 2007; Hayashi et al. 2013 for studies
at various redshifts), such that the former is often used to
quantify the SFR in distant galaxies, where Hα falls out of the
observed spectral range. This is why the [O II] line is used
as well.
The observed intensity of hydrogen emission lines, particularly those found in the optical range, are widely exploited to
calculate the recent star formation rate and the amount of dust
extinction. Hence, reproducing these observables with a
theoretical spectrum gives strong constraints on these two
quantities. For this reason, as a sanity check, we calculated the
As we fully embrace the selective extinction hypothesis, the
parameter space that SINOPSIS explores includes 12 values for
the SFR and 12 values for the dust extinction, one for each age
bin we consider. As extensively explained by Cid Fernandes
(2007), using an over-dimensioned parameter space is an
expression of the principle of maximum ignorance, and when
the results are to be taken into account, the properties calculated
over the initial 12 age bins must be compressed to a lower time
resolution SFH. This, in our case, results in considering as a
reliable result the SFR calculated in four time intervals (see
below) and the extinction in two, namely “young” (i.e., for
SSPs displaying emission lines) and “global” (i.e., calculated as
an average over all the stellar ages).
The use of this nonparametric approach compared to, e.g., the
assumption of an analytic prescription for the SFH (such as a
tau-model, a log-normal, or a declining exponential), has the
obvious advantage of limiting the number of priors the model
needs to assume. Furthermore, it is a fairer representation of the
stellar population evolution, the SFH of galaxies being in general
characterized by various episodes of star formation of different
intensities at various ages, especially when galaxies in dense
environments are considered (see, e.g., Boselli et al. 2016).
Reconstructing the evolution of the stellar populations in a
galaxy, by means of a nonparametric SFH as we do here, is a
methodology that is by all means very similar to that embraced
by other codes and works by tackling similar issues (see, e.g.,
Ocvirk et al. 2006; Merluzzi et al. 2013, 2016), and has proven
effective for this task.
The choice of the number of age bins and their definition is
based on simulations we have performed in Fritz et al. (2007)
for integrated spectra of the WINGS survey. While, on the one
hand, the quality of the spectra, especially in terms of the
signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), is much better for MUSE data, on
the other hand these spectra are sampling the rest-frame
spectral region between ∼4700 and ∼9000 Å, and hence are
missing some of those features normally used to constrain the
stellar population properties. This is why we decided not to
push our interpretation to a higher age resolution, despite the
excellent quality of the data. However, we are still satisfied by
the modeling and the provided results, since it is extremely
difficult to disentangle the contribution to the integrated light of
stellar populations in the 7–14 Gyr range. This is especially true
when nonresolved spectroscopy is used, where in one single
spectrum, stars of all possible ages are superimposed.
Furthermore, well-known effects such as the age–metallicity
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degeneracy plus dust extinction, conspire to make the spectra
of simple stellar populations very similar in this age range.
Another viable approach would be to use an analytical
prescription for the SFH (such as a log-normal, a double
exponential, or a so-called τ-model), which is equivalent to
imposing an arbitrary prior on the shape of the SFR as a
function of time. This is why we choose to follow this “free”
approach, which we consider fairer with respect to the
complexity of the problem.
The derived physical parameters include the total stellar
mass, SFR in the four age bins, luminosity and mass-weighted
ages, and dust extinction (see Fritz et al. 2011 for a complete
list). The latter is calculated as the ratio between the dust-free
and the best-fit model, as explained in Fritz et al. (2011; see
their Equation (6)).
The estimation of uncertainties in the physical parameters
that are given as outputs, follows a Monte Carlo-like approach,
described in detail in Fritz et al. (2007). The best fit is searched
for within the parameter space by randomly exploring a large
number of models. As the choice of the trial point (which hence
results in a given model spectrum) performed at each step
depends on the model calculated at the previous step, starting
from a different set of initial conditions will always result in a
different set of best-fit parameters (with minimal differences
between best fits). The properties of the different best-fit
models are hence used to calculate the uncertainties on the
physical parameters.
The assumed IMF is Chabrier (2003) with masses in the
range 0.1–100 M.
4. One of the outputs now includes purely stellar emission,
that is, the model spectrum without the nebular emissionline component. These are calculated from the best-fit
parameters but using instead the SSP set with pure stellar
emission.
5. When spectra from different regions of a galaxy are
considered, it is possible that the velocities of the gas and
of the stars are different. For our purposes, this means that
during the spectral fitting, when using redshifts calculated
from absorption lines (i.e., that of the stellar component),
the center of the emission lines could be displaced with
respect to the absorption component. This might turn into
a miscalculation of the equivalent width of the lines or
sometimes even to a nondetection. To overcome this
possible issue, we now allow the simultaneous use of
redshifts calculated from the two components. If no
emission lines are detected, only the stellar redshift is
used, while if emission lines are present, the measurement
of the equivalent width is performed using the emissionline redshift for the lines in emission.
6. SINOPSIS has been optimized from the computational
efficiency point of view and can successfully reproduce
one optical spectrum in less than 1 s on a 3.5 GHz Intel
Core i7 machine (running Mac OS X Version 10.10.5).
The code is currently not parallelized and can only use
one core at the time. We are planning to implement
multithreading to exploit the full resource power of
multicore computers for the analysis of multiple spectra/
IFU data, which has proven to be quite computationally
demanding.
2.5. Improvements and Adjustments for IFU Data Dealing
In order for SINOPSIS to properly deal with IFU datacubes, a
number of changes and improvements were implemented with
respect to the versions presented in Fritz et al. (2007, 2011).
These are very briefly described below.
1. SINOPSIS can now ingest observed spectra in FITS format.
Data format can be either 1D (a single spectrum), 2D (a
series of spectra, as, e.g., provided by multislit or fiberfed spectrographs), or 3D (e.g., an IFU, such as MUSE).
2. When data in “cube” format are used, most of the results
are now saved on datacubes in FITS format, with each
plane containing one of the properties typically derived
from this kind of analysis (e.g., pixel-by-pixel stellar
mass, extinction, star formation rate, stellar age, etc. See
Fritz et al. 2011 for a detailed description of the meaning
of each parameter).
3. A new set of SSP models by S. Charlot & G. Bruzual
(2018, in preparation) is used, which has a higher spectral
and age resolution, and a larger number of metallicity
values (namely 13, from Z=0.0001 to Z=0.04, as
compared to the three default values used before). These
new models include the most recent version of the
PADOVA evolutionary tracks from Bressan et al. (2012;
PARSEC), and have been coupled with stellar atmosphere libraries from several sources depending on the
wavelength coverage, luminosity, and effective temperature (see Gutkin et al. 2016 for the full compilation of
the adopted stellar spectra). For the wavelength range of
interest for this paper and for GASP in general, the stellar
spectra are mostly from the Miles stellar library (SánchezBlázquez et al. 2006; Falcón-Barroso et al. 2011). The
evolutionary tracks include the treatment of the Wolf–
Rayet phase for stars typically more massive than 25 M.
3. Data
As already outlined in the introduction, this work provides a
detailed analysis of a single galaxy drawn from the GASP
sample. JO36 was selected from the sample of jellyfish
candidates of Poggianti et al. (2016) found in the OmegaWINGS database (Gullieuszik et al. 2015). Also known as
2MFGC00903, or WINGS J011259.41+153529.5, this galaxy
was chosen for testing and validating SINOPSIS because its SED
is dominated by the emission of the stellar populations as
opposed to the nebular one. In Figure 1, we present a g–r–z
color composite image of the field where the galaxy is located
and of the galaxy itself as derived from the MUSE cube.
JO36 (R.A.=01h12m59 4; decl.=+15d35m29s) is a disturbed
galaxy with an assigned stripping class value JClass=3 (on a
scale of 1–5, where 5 represents the maximum morphological
disturbance in the optical; see Poggianti et al. 2016) belonging to
the Abell cluster A160. With a V-band magnitude of 15.5, JO36 is
located at a projected radial distance of about 310 kpc from the
Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) and was recognized in optical
images because of the presence of a bright optical tail, both in the
V and B bands, departing from the galaxy disk toward the south.
MUSE data for this object were taken in 2015 October 10, with an
exposure of 2700 s.
The galaxy is classified as an Sc spiral seen almost edge on:
its apparent axial ratio of about 0.15 is in fact consistent with
the intrinsic flattening value usually assumed for galaxies with
such a morphological classification.
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Figure 1. Left panel: SDSS color image of the central region of the cluster Abell 160 with the position of the BCG indicated, and the MUSE field of view around the
galaxy. Right panel: RGB image of JO36, as provided by the MUSE data reduction pipeline. This is based on the grz bands, where the g filter is included at a 50%
level due to the incomplete spectral coverage.
A bulge can be identified both photometrically and
kinematically. The surface brightness profile, which we report
in Figure 2, shows the bulge component as a light excess with
respect to the exponential profile representing the disk (red line
in the figure). As clearly visible in the plot, the bulge becomes
dominant in the innermost 4 kpc. Similarly, the highest values
of the stellar velocity dispersion are found in the central regions
at similar galactocentric distances.
The data reduction for the whole GASP project is described
in the survey’s presentation paper, Poggianti et al. (2017), and
we refer the reader to this work for all of the relevant details.
4. Comparison with GANDALF
We now briefly describe the main differences between
by Sarzi et al. (2006), a code that is
commonly used to perform a similar analysis on IFU data (see,
e.g., Bacon et al. 2001; de Zeeuw et al. 2002, and other papers
of the SAURON survey). We then compare the performances
of the two codes, with a focus on the aspect that is the main
driver of the comparison: the derivation of an emission-linefree model. This is done by analyzing the very same data set
with both codes.
SINOPSIS and GANDALF,
Figure 2. Surface brightness profile of the galaxy (black line), highlighting the
presence of light excess, with respect to an exponential profile (red line), in the
central regions. This is what we identify as the bulge.
4.1. Differences Between the Two Codes
The choice of a comparison with GANDALF over many other
similar codes is dictated by the need of subtracting, for a major
part of the analysis of galaxies in GASP, the stellar component
from the nebular lines when performing spatially resolved
analysis on the gas properties. GANDALF is one of the most
used tools to perform such a subtraction and was hence chosen
as a reference.
As already outlined in Section 2.1, SINOPSIS has been used to
analyze spectra from different instruments and various surveys.
Still, an application to integral field data has so far been
missing. Even though, in principle, it all comes down to
correctly reproducing the most significant features of an optical
spectrum, we performed a number of tests to check the
reliability of the results when dealing with spatially resolved
data. This was done by comparing our outcomes to those
obtained with GANDALF, an IDL tool that shares similar
features with SINOPSIS, but that focuses mostly on the analysis
and interpretation of the emission and absorption line
characteristics to derive the stellar and gas kinematics, even
though the stellar population properties can be inferred as well.
Both codes attempt to reproduce, by means of theoretical
spectra, the observed features of an optical spectrum. The
underlying models are very similar, as they both use stellar
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atmosphere from MILES (Vazdekis et al. 2010 for GANDALF
and the similar version of Sánchez-Blázquez et al. (2006) for
SINOPSIS), at a spectral resolution of ∼2.5 Å. They both
provide an emission-line-free model spectrum.
The main differences between the two codes can be
summarized as follows.
the same when the Γ index is calculated for SINOPSIS and
In principle, one would expect that values of Gj
lower than 1 (that is, with the model flux being within 1s from
the observed one) are to be considered acceptable fits. In
reality, the values are always much smaller in the vast majority
of the cases.
We constructed maps of both the Γ and Gj values for each of
the 14 bands, so that we can check for the presence of
systematic differences in any of the spectral ranges defined
above.
The value of the goodness index, averaged over all of the
spaxels, was found to be 0.85 and 1.37 in the case of
SINOPSIS and GANDALF, respectively, indicating that the two
codes provide, globally and on average, very satisfying fits to
the observed data, with SINOPSIS performing slightly better
than GANDALF.
We note that, in order for SINOPSIS to provide satisfactory
fits, in particular toward the bulge of the galaxy, we needed to
relax the constraints on the maximum values of dust extinction,
in particular for the oldest stellar populations. In SINOPSIS, this
parameter is allowed to vary freely with stellar age, as
explained in Section 2.2. Normally, the upper limits of the
values that dust extinction can reach for each stellar population
are an inverse function of their age. This can be viewed on an
equal footing with a prior that helps limit the effect of possible
degeneracies.
The maximum value of the color excess was increased to 0.6
for the two oldest stellar populations and to 0.8 for the others
up to ∼50 Myr (see Table 2 for a comparison to the standard
values).
Allowing older stars to be more heavily affected by dust
extinction is not a mere matter of increasing the degree of
freedom of the parameters, but has an actual physical meaning:
the central part of the galaxy is the most crowded area, and the
light emitted by old stars is easily contaminated both by other
stellar populations with a whole range of stellar ages, and also
by the presence of dust located anywhere along the line of
sight. The orientation of the galaxy is, in fact, very far from
being face on (see Section 3), a configuration that would
minimize the dust reddening effect (see, e.g., De Looze
et al. 2014). Hence, the light reaching us from the innermost
part has a contribution from both the bulge and the disk, which
is likely to contain the majority of the dust. Allowing higher
values of dust extinction even for the older stars that are
dominating the bulge is hence needed to account for the effect
of the dust lane.
In Figure 3, we show the Γ map calculated as explained
above for both codes (note that the values for each spaxel are
calculated according to Equation (1), and hence not normalized
to the total number of observables). A visual comparison of the
two maps in Figure 3, where only pixels having a stellar
redshift or an S N > 5 for the Hα emission line are shown,
confirms the aforementioned result, highlighting that
SINOPSIS performs slightly better with respect to GANDALF, at
least as far as the continuum emission is concerned.
It can be easily noted that the Γ values decrease, on average,
as a function of the galactocentric distance for both models.
This is due to the fact that the spectra become fainter as we
approach the galaxy outskirts, and the S/N hence gets lower.
This increases the observed uncertainties on the fluxes, and it
GANDALF.
1. The models used by SINOPSIS already include the nebular
emission, which has been self-consistently calculated
using the SSP spectra as an input source fed into the
photoionization code CLOUDY. GANDALF, instead, reproduces them as Gaussian functions, fitting not only their
intensity, but their width and central wavelengths as well.
2. SINOPSIS assumes an extinction curve (either from models
or derived from observations) to account for dust
reddening in the models before matching to the observed
ones, while GANDALF corrects for the effect of dust by
multiplying the model spectra by nth-order Legendre
polynomials.
3. SINOPSIS adopts a “selective extinction” approach, where
the amount of dust attenuation is considered to be age
dependent.
4.2. Direct Comparison
We ran the two fitting tools on a subset of pixels of the
original MUSE cube, specifically on a rectangle of 109×255
spaxels which encompasses the full disk of the galaxy, and
where a redshift value, either stellar or from the gas, was
available (see also Section 5). Furthermore, we limited the
wavelength range to the spectral window between 4750 and
∼7650 Å, discarding the red end of the spectrum, which is
much less rich in the kind of features that are crucial for the
purposes of this study.
We analyzed the performances of the two codes by
calculating, a posteriori, the goodness of the fit to the
continuum emission, hence not taking into account any spectral
line (a further check is done on the equivalent width values of
the Hα and Hβ lines in a separate comparison). To do so, we
exploited the same 14 spectral windows used to constrain the fit
for SINOPSIS. These windows have, in general, a width of
∼100 Å, except in a few cases in which they are narrower due
to the need to sample a specific continuum emission region,
while at the same time avoiding nearby emission or absorption
features. The windows were chosen in order to homogeneously
sample the whole spectral range (see Table 1 for the details).
For both codes, we calculated a goodness index, Γ, both
“global” and for each of the aforementioned bands, defined as
G=
N
⎛ F j - F j ⎞2
o
m
⎟ ,
j
s
⎠
j=1
N
å Gj = å ⎜⎝
j=1
(1 )
where Foj and Fmj are the average fluxes calculated over the jth
band of the observed and model spectrum, respectively. s j is
the uncertainty on the observed flux in that band, calculated as
the standard deviation of the flux. Hence, Gj is the goodness
index for the jth band. Note that, with the definition of the flux
error bars we have chosen, we might be slightly overestimating
the uncertainties on the flux in the highest S/N spectra. This is,
however, irrelevant for the relative comparison as the errors are
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Figure 3. Maps of the goodness index (see Equation (1)) for SINOPSIS (left
panel) and GANDALF (right panel), for the central spaxels (with pixel
coordinates within the 106 < x < 217 and 60 < y < 307 range) of JO36,
where the two codes were run for comparison. The values of Γ are displayed in
a linear scale ranging from 0 to 6.
consequently makes the fits more degenerate, giving, as a
result, lower values of the goodness index.
As for the other observed features, namely, the spectral lines,
an automatic comparison with the data is much less
straightforward, due to the complexity of properly measuring
emission and absorption lines, especially in the lowest S/N
spectra. Hence, we performed two quality checks: in the first
one, we compared observed and model spectra, while in the
second we focused on possible differences between the models
provided by the two codes.
For the first one, we visually inspected the fits to the
observed spectra provided by the two codes around the Hα and
Hβ lines, checking for differences. This was done in a subset of
∼150 spaxels along the major and minor axes of the galaxy,
which not only allowed the full range of S/N values found in
the datacube (i.e., from ∼80 to ∼10) to be included, but also
the different spectral properties, such as continuum shape and
line intensities, to be sampled.
No significant differences were found between the two
codes. On a minor fraction of the spectra in this control sample
(less than 10%), SINOPSIS better recovers the Hβ emission,
especially when deeply embedded within the absorption
profile. In these cases, GANDALF was usually overestimating
the emission-line intensity, but no systematic trend could be
found, e.g., with respect to the S/N or to the spectral properties
(also given the small number of spectra where this discrepancy
was spotted).
In the second check, we calculated the equivalent widths of
the Hα and Hβ lines from the best fits and compared the values
from the two models. On average, we found a difference of
about 15% in the value of the equivalent width of the two lines
when comparing measurements in each spaxel. In Figure 4, we
show the map of the spaxel-by-spaxel differences, expressed as
a percentage of the Hβ equivalent width value (which is the
Figure 4. Map of the relative difference in the Hβ equivalent width values of
the two models, calculated as in Equation (2), for each spaxel.
feature displaying the largest difference), calculated as
Db =
EWs - EWg
EWs
,
(2 )
where EWs and EWg are the equivalent width values, expressed
in Å, of the SINOPSIS and GANDALF models, respectively.
As shown in Figure 4, the differences are mostly within
∼5% across the galaxy, with very few exceptions where the
discrepancy can be as high as ∼50%, but mostly in the
outskirts of the disk, where the S/N is lower. We visually
inspected the fits from both codes for a sample of these spaxels
with the highest discrepancies and found that differences in the
line intensities are either due to the high uncertainties in the
measurement or, in many other cases, to GANDALF, which
seems to display some issues fitting (or measuring) the
observed line (e.g., because of a poor fit of the continuum
emission near the line, which hence affects the line measurement itself).
We conclude that the two codes perform, with respect to the
determination of the spectral continuum emission and of the
hydrogen absorption line intensity, very similarly. This gives us
strong confidence in the model fits provided by SINOPSIS, in
particular with respect to the correction of the absorption
component in the Balmer lines, which was our major interest.
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Figure 5. Left panel: stellar velocity map. Right panel: gas velocity map. The solid lines in both figures are the Hα continuum surface brightness contours in four
logarithmically spaced levels. Regions labeled “A” to “F” are described in the text. The gray and red arrows point toward the BCG and the cluster X-ray emission,
respectively. A cut of 4 in S/N was applied in the gas velocity map. North is up, east is left.
5. Results
We now present the results of the kinematic and stellar
population analysis. The stellar and gas velocities were derived
by means of external packages. In particular, the fitting and
characterization of the emission lines was performed by
exploiting the KUBEVIZ (Fossati et al. 2016) code, while the
stellar velocities were measured by the pPXF software
(Cappellari & Emsellem 2004; Cappellari 2012), which works
in Voronoi binned regions of a given S/N (10 in this case; see
Cappellari & Copin 2012).
The gas and stellar velocity information is also used to
assign a proper redshift, which will be used in the spectral
fitting. Only spaxels with a redshift determination will be
analyzed by SINOPSIS.
5.1. The Stellar and Gas Kinematics
The stellar kinematics was derived, as customary for this
kind of data, from the analysis of the characteristics of
absorption lines, while the kinematical properties of the gas
were inferred from a similar analysis of the Hα emission line,
using the aforementioned tools. We refer to Section 6.1 in
Poggianti et al. (2017) for a detailed description of how the gas
and stellar kinematics are derived from these tools and of the
main parameters adopted for this task.
In Figure 5, we show the velocity map of the stellar and gas
components, while Figure 6 presents the radial velocity profiles
along the major axis for stars (red triangles) and gas (blue
dashed line). At radii larger than ∼10 kpc, the trend becomes
much noisier due to the fewer usable spaxels and to the more
uncertain velocity determination. A cut at S/N=4 measured
on Hα was applied in the gas velocity map. In order to obtain
more reliable gas velocities, the original datacube was filtered
with a 5×5 spaxel boxcar filter to increase the S/N level.
Although following the same pattern in the velocity profiles,
the gas has velocities that are marginally higher with respect to
those measured in the stellar component, even though this
difference is in most of the cases within the measured
uncertainties (see Figure 6).
Figure 6. Stellar (red triangles) and gas (blue, dashed line) radial velocity
profiles taken along the major axis of the galaxy.
The radial distribution of the stellar velocities displays a
monotonic gradient out to radii of about 10 kpc, with values as
high as ∼200 km s−1, as expected from a nearly edge-on
galaxy and is a clear indication of a rotationally supported disk.
After this radius, the velocity gradient flattens out in the
northern part of the disk while displaying a slight bump on the
southern side, reaching higher velocities farther out. These
velocities correspond to stars observed in a tail extending by
about 5 kpc southwards, where the (stellar) radial velocities are
the highest found in the disk, with (negative) values of about
270 km s−1. This velocity pattern follows the trend observed in
the inner disk, while the northern side shows no evidence of a
similar structure, which is absent in both WINGS and
OmegaWINGS images.
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the V band of ∼27 mag arcsec at the 3s confidence level). In
Section 7, we will discuss the possible origin of this truncation.
We created diagnostic diagrams (see, e.g., Kewley et al.
2006) using emission lines lying within the observed range of
our data (i.e., Hβ [O III] 5007 Å, [O I] 6300 Å, Hα, [N II]
6583 Å, and [S II] 6716+6731 Å) to derive the characteristics
of the ionizing sources as a function of the position and to
detect the possible presence of an AGN. The line intensities
were measured after subtraction of the continuum, exploiting
the pure stellar emission best-fit model provided by SINOPSIS,
in order to take into account any possible contamination from
stellar photospheric absorption.
The three diagrams we used, namely, log[N II]/Hα versus
log[O III]/Hβ (shown in Figure 8), log[O I]/Hα versus log
[O III]/Hβ, and log[S II]/Hα versus log[O III]/Hβ (not presented in this paper), are concordant in excluding the presence
of an AGN. We consider this result to be quite robust, given
that in the center of the galaxy, where a possible AGN is likely
to be located, the measured S/N is the highest.
Interestingly enough, deep Chandra archive images have
detected the presence of a luminous though highly absorbed
X-ray source strongly incompatible with a possible nuclear
starburst, as described in Section 5.4 (and F. Nicastro et al.
2017, in preparation). This would imply that, if an AGN is
indeed the source of this luminosity, it should be highly
obscured so that it would not be detected by optical line
diagnostics.
The results, presented in Figure 8, show that the emissionline luminosity is powered either by star formation or by
LINER-like mechanisms such as shocks. In particular, the
central parts of the disk are those dominated by star formation,
while the gas at higher galactic altitudes shows characteristics
of LINER emission or characteristics intermediate between the
two (see the right panel of Figure 8).
Clear signatures of stripping along the line of sight are
visible as double-peaked emission-line profile, or as a departure
from a Gaussian profile, mostly visible in Hα. These are
located in the outskirts of the disk, in regions with a LINER
emission origin.
It is interesting to notice that the regions classified as “starforming” in the left panel of Figure 8 are clearly displaced toward
the east with respect to the center, defined by the Hα continuum
contour, and slightly bent with respect to the major axis.
−2
Figure 7. Hα surface brightness map. The red lines are the stellar emission
isocontours derived from the Hα continuum emission.
The “rotational axis” of the gas component (i.e., the locus of
close-to-zero velocities) visible in Figure 5 as a green strip is
bent in a twisted “U” shape, with zero-velocity gas found in the
outer disk, as far as ∼5 kpc away from the minor axis. Such a
feature is similar to that observed by Merluzzi et al. (2016) in
the jellyfish galaxy SOS90630 of the Shapley supercluster.
Using an ad hoc N-body/hydrodynamical simulation, they
found that the gas velocity field, and this very feature in
particular, can be successfully reproduced when ram pressure
stripping is acting on an almost edge-on geometrical configuration (see their Figures18 and 27), with the galaxy moving
in the opposite direction with respect to the concavity.
A careful inspection of the gas velocity map highlights
asymmetries in their values, with negative velocities extending
well beyond the galaxy’s center toward the north, out to a
distance of about 8 kpc on the eastern side of the disk (see the
region marked “F” in Figure 5). Similarly, on the same side but
toward the south, there is a clear inversion in the gas velocities,
going from negative to positive values (region “E” on the same
figure).
Four Hα blobs are visible toward the south, detected with
S/N from ∼10 (the regions labelled “B,” “C,” and “D”) to
more than 50 (region “A,” the southernmost one). The most
luminous one, region A, is clearly detected on the V-band
image of WINGS and OmegaWINGS data as well. The
velocities of blobs A, B, and C are quite compatible with those
observed in the southern disk, while those in region D are
similar to those of the northern side. A feature with similar
velocities is found on the southeast side of the disk (labelled
“E” in Figure 5), with counterrotating velocities with respect to
the gas on this side of the galaxy.
5.3. Properties of the Stellar Populations
We now study both the global and spatially resolved stellar
populations of this galaxy by analyzing the SFR as a function
of time in four age bins. These are logarithmically spaced and
chosen in such a way that the differences between the spectral
characteristics of the stellar populations are maximal and are
defined according to Table 4.
The stellar population properties were obtained by applying
SINOPSIS to the observed datacube in each spaxel with a
reliable redshift determination, using three sets of SSP spectra
with fixed metallicity values (namely, Z=0.004, Z=0.02,
and Z=0.04). Whenever a stellar redshift was available, this
was used for the spectral fitting, while the equivalent widths of
the emission lines were measured using the redshift value
derived from the emission lines. About 15,000 observed
spectra were analyzed (the runtime takes approximately 8 hr).
The total stellar mass, calculated as the sum of stellar masses
in all of the spaxels encompassed by region 4 (the larger ellipse
5.2. The Spatially Resolved Gas Properties
The Hα surface brightness map is shown in Figure 7. The
map reaches a surface brightness of 2 ´ 10-18
erg s−1 cm−2 arcsec−2 at the 3σ limit (which is the characteristic value for MUSE data of this program; see Poggianti
et al. 2017) and, when compared to the stellar emission (see,
e.g., the stellar velocity map), it shows evidence for the
truncation of the ionized gas disk. Ionized gas is found out to
galactocentric distances of about 15 kpc, while the stellar disk
extends to ∼25 kpc (with a surface brightness detection limit in
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Figure 8. Left: diagnostic diagram of the ionizing sources across the galaxy. The red dotted and continuous lines are defined as in Kewley et al. (2001) and Kauffmann
et al. (2003), respectively. The green lines are taken from Sharp & Bland-Hawthorn (2010; see the text for details.) Right: spatial locations of the spaxels color-coded
based on the ionizing source diagnostic. Hα continuum surface brightness contours are shown as a reference for the stellar emission.
Table 4
Ages of the the Stellar Populations, in Years, for Which We Calculate the
Physical Properties from the Spectral Fitting
Bin
Lower Age
Upper Age
1
2
3
4
0
2×107
5.72×108
5.75×109
2×107
5.72×108
5.75×109
14×109
+0.16
10
in Figure 9; see also Table 5), is 6.490.19 ´ 10 M and is
10
slightly higher than 4.8 0.8 ´ 10 M, which is the the
mass value calculated from the WINGS integrated spectrum,
after correcting for aperture effects.11 Using SINOPSIS to derive
the stellar mass from the integrated spectrum of region 4 yields
+0.89
10
a value of 5.891.14 ´ 10 M, which is fully compatible with
the value calculated from the spatially resolved data.
Similarly to the stellar mass, SINOPSIS also provides an
estimate of the recent (i.e., 2 ´ 107 year) SFR. This value is
obtained by summing the SFR values in each spaxel, and it
already contains a correction for dust extinction, which is
performed within the spectral fitting procedure. The integrated
+1.57
value of the recent SFR calculated in this way is 5.880.93 M
−1
yr , about 90% of which is concentrated within the innermost
parts, where the dust extinction also reaches the highest values
as shown in Figure 15 (this corresponds to the spaxels enclosed
within ellipse n.2 in Figure 9).
To find possible trends in the stellar properties as a function
of the position, we considered four annuli, defined as the
regions in between elliptical apertures, which are chosen to
match roughly the surface brightness intensity of the stellar
emission at different levels. These are depicted in Figure 9.
Table 5 reports the physical sizes of the ellipses. Furthermore,
Figure 9. MUSE datacube integrated with respect to the wavelength. The
ellipses are the areas where the SFR is computed, with the same color-coding
as in Figure 10. The gray ellipses and circles on the southern part are the four
Hα blobs as identified in Section 5.1.
Table 5
Size, in Kiloparsecs, of the Major (a) and Minor (b) Semiaxes of the
Ellipses Defining the Regions in Figure 9
Region
1
2
3
4
11
The main source of error on this mass is probably due to the quite large
aperture correction which, on top of that, is even more uncertain for edge-on
galaxies.
11
a
b
4.1
9.8
16.2
25.6
1.4
2.2
3.5
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Figure 11. Map of the luminosity-weighted stellar age as calculated from
spectral modeling.
The luminosity-weighted age map, shown in Figure 11,
highlights the changes in the average age of the stellar
populations at each location in the galaxy. This displays a
minimum in the central parts of the galaxy, as expected given
that it is at this location where bulk of the star formation is
happening. Very young ages are found in the blobs located in
the southern outskirts as well, which are all found to be star
forming. This is consistent with the faint stellar continuum and
Hα being observed in emission, and it is further backed up by
the low value of the luminosity-weighted ages.
Figure 12 presents the spatially resolved star formation rate
surface density in four age bins. These are calculated by
rebinning the SFR values of the 12 SSPs used for the fit,
according to the definition and ages given in Fritz et al. (2007).
There are no signs of ongoing star formation outside the
disk, except for the southern blobs where we clearly detect
ionized gas. Indeed, the top-left panel in Figure 12 shows that
the most intense star-forming spaxels are found within the
central parts of the disk with values up to ~5 ´ 10-2 M yr−1
kpc −1, while outside this region, very well defined by the Hα
continuum contours, only very faint and sparse signatures of
current star formation are found.
The outermost parts of the disk are dominated by
intermediate-age (i.e., between ~2 ´ 107 and ~6 ´ 108 years)
stellar populations; these very same stars are also the main
population found in the tail departing from the southern disk
that was identified in Figure 5, where no emission lines were
detected. The oldest stars are dominating the bulge of the
galaxy, and they are the most concentrated population as
depicted in the lower-right panel of Figure 12.
In the most luminous blob “A,” the Hα equivalent width
reaches a value of −64 Å. The star formation rates derived
from SINOPSIS from the integrated spectra of the blobs, range
from 3 ´ 10-3 (blob B) to 1.2 ´ 10-2 M yr−1 (blob A), while
the stellar masses have values in the range between 5.1 ´ 106
(blob D) and 1.7 ´ 108 M (blob A). Relatively young
(500 Myr) stars are present throughout the entire disk.
We point out that the spatial trends we observe in the stellar
population properties are very likely weakened by projection
effects, given the high inclination angle of the galaxy, and
might be actually even stronger.
Figure 10. The first four panels from the top show the star formation history of
the galaxy calculated within the annuli defined in Figure 9 (same color-coding)
and Table 5. These are labelled from 1 to 4 going from the innermost to the
outermost region. The lowest panel displays the same quantity but for the
whole galaxy.
we separately analyze the star formation histories of both the
stellar tail and the four Hα emission blobs identified in
Figure 5.
Calculating the SFR in the previously defined annuli is an
effective way to look for broad spatial trends in the average
ages of the stellar populations as a function of the galactocentric distance. After the first star formation episode, when
about 65% of the stellar mass was created, the galaxy
underwent a decrease in the star-forming activity, followed
by a subsequent star formation episode with an intensity,
relative to the previous age bin, higher in the outskirts with
respect to the center.
This is clearly represented in Figure 10, where we show the
SFR as a function of age and position. This is indicative of an
inside-out formation scenario in the early epochs of the galaxy:
the SFR decreased after the initial burst more abruptly in the
innermost regions while being sustained at a higher rate in the
disk outskirts. An intense star formation activity involving the
whole galaxy occurred between 20 Myr and 0.5 Gyr ago, with a
much higher intensity in the outer part than in the galaxy
center. During this event, the SFR increased by only ∼15% in
the innermost region (region 1), while the outer parts (regions 3
and 4) experienced a boost of almost 50%.
This event converted, according to our modeling, about 1010
M of gas into stars in the outer disk (i.e., the annulus between
ellipses 2 and 4), an amount that represents about 15% of the
currently observed total stellar mass in the whole galaxy.
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Figure 12. Star formation rate surface density as a function of position for different epochs corresponding to the four main SSP age bins. The contours are defined in
the same manner as for Figure 5. The ring-like structure visible in the youngest stellar population is an artifact from the code, which mistakes noisy features for an Hα
line in emission.
5.4. The Chandra View of the Nuclear Region of JO36
JO36 was serendipitously observed by Chandra on 2002
October 18 as part of the targeted observation of the cluster
Abell160 and for a total of 58.5 ks. The galaxy is located 5.8
arcmin off-axis, with respect to the Chandra ACIS-I aimpoint,
where the 2 keV off-axis/on-axis effective area ratio (i.e.,
vignetting) is ∼0.9, and the Point Spread Function Encircled
Energy Radius is ∼1.5–2 arcsec (cf. with ∼0.5 arcsec on-axis;
“The Chandra Proposal Observatory Guide,” v. 19.0, http://
cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/POG/html/chap6.html).
A bright X-ray nucleus is clearly detected (Figure 13, left
panel) at a position coincident with that of the bright Hα
nucleus (Figure 13, right panel), together with several fainter
point-like X-ray sources (most likely ultraluminous X-ray—
ULX—sources; F. Nicastro et al. 2017, in preparation), aligned
with the galaxy’s edge-on disk seen in Hα (white contours
superimposed on the X-ray image in the left panel of
Figure 13). Interestingly, the brightest of these off-nuclear
X-ray sources is located just at the northern edge of the
truncated gas disk, where little or no Hα emission is seen.
To estimate the X-ray luminosity of the nucleus, we
extracted source and background X-ray counts respectively
from a 3 arcsec radius circular region centered on the source
Figure 13. Chandra 0.3–10 keV (left panel) and MUSE Hα (right panel)
images of the GASP cluster galaxy JO36: X-ray (green) and Hα (white)
contours are superimposed on the Hα and X-ray images, respectively.
centroid (R.A.=18.24788, decl.=15.59122) and from four
additional 3 arcsec radius source-free circular regions located
∼15 arcsec northeast and southeast of the nucleus. The nuclear
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Figure 14. Chandra 2–10 keV (left) and 0.3–2 keV (right) images of the
GASP cluster galaxy JO36.
region contains 32 full-band Chandra counts, while the four
background regions contain a total of seven counts. Rescaling
by the four times smaller source to background extraction area,
this gives a net number of 0.3–10 keV source counts of
30.8±5.6, or a count rate of (5.3 1.0) ´ 10-4 counts s−1.
The nuclear X-ray counts are all detected above 2 keV
(compare the left and right panels of Figure 14), which suggests
that the X-ray emission is highly absorbed. Indeed, binning the
∼31 source net counts into bins with 10 counts, leaves a
three-bin spectrum (Ebin = 1.8, 4.2 and 6.7 keV) peaked at
4.2 keV. Modeling the spectrum with a simple power law
(F = A (E E0 )G ) yields an extremely flat photon spectral index
G = -0.9, which also underestimates the spectrum peak count
rate. Including a column NH of intrinsic nuclear cold gas
surrounding the X-ray source, attenuating the soft X-rays along
our line of sight, and freezing the photon spectral index to the
commonly observed AGN value of G = 2 (e.g., Piconcelli
et al. 2005) yields instead flat residuals and a best-fitting
−2
+0.7
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NH = 1.10.4 ´ 10 cm , as typically observed in highly
obscured type 2 Seyfert galaxies (e.g., Risaliti et al. 1999).
From the best-fitting spectral model, we derive an observed
(i.e., absorbed) 2–10 keV flux F2 – 10 = (3.5 1.5) ´ 10-14
erg s−1 cm−2, which translates (at the distance of JO36) into an
observed luminosity L 2 – 10 = (1.4 0.6) ´ 10 41 erg s−1 and an
intrinsic (i.e., unabsorbed) luminosity of L 2Unabs
– 10 = (2.8 1.1) ´
10 41 erg s−1. By factoring a bolometric correction factor of ;10
(appropriate for L 2 – 10 3 ´ 10 41 erg s−1; e.g., Marconi
et al. 2004), we get LBol 4 ´ 10 42 erg s−1, consistent with
the low-luminosity end of Seyfert galaxies and thus pointing
toward the presence of a buried AGN in the nucleus of JO36,
which was not detected by optical diagnostic diagrams
(Section 5.2).
An additional independent (but indirect) check of the
presence of an AGN in the nucleus of JO36 can be done by
comparing the star formation rate density (SFRD) derived in
the nuclear region through Hα diagnostics (SFRD Ha 0.14
M yr−1 kpc−2), with the estimate derived by assuming that all
31 nuclear Chandra counts are uniformly distributed over a
compact, 2.7 kpc (i.e., 3 arcsec) radius, nuclear starbursting
region and are due to a large (i.e., 100) number of unresolved
luminous X-ray binaries. This gives an observed 2–10 keV
luminosity density of 2 – 10 7.6 ´ 10 39 ergs s−1 kpc−2,
which translates into an SFRD 1.5 M yr−1 kpc−2 (e.g.,
Ranalli et al. 2003). This is more than 15 times larger than that
Figure 15. On the left panel, the extinction map for the youngest stellar
populations (i.e., with age 2 ´ 107 years), as derived by spectral fitting, is
presented. On the right panel, the same quantity is shown, but for older stars.
Both maps were smoothed to improve readability.
observed in Hα, again suggesting the presence of an AGN in
the nucleus of JO36.
6. The Interstellar Medium in JO36
SINOPSIS provides values for the emission-line dust attenuation, whose map we show in the left panel of Figure 15. A
comparison with the same quantity calculated from the
observed Balmer decrement (Hα/Hβ) shows excellent agreement. Values of AV as high as 4 are found toward the central
parts of the galaxy, this being partly due to the high inclination
of the galaxy disk with respect to the line of sight.
In the right panel of Figure 15, we show the dust extinction
calculated by SINOPSIS for the stars older than 2 ´ 107 yr . The
highest values are reached in the same position where the
extinction from the emission lines is also maximum. The ratio
between the two extinction values is in general <2, as found
e.g., in Calzetti et al. (2000; but see also Wuyts et al. 2013 for
slightly lower values), but it reaches higher values in a small
fraction of pixels, probably due to the galaxy geometry.
These maps only give a proxy for the presence of dust, as
they do not take into account the 3D structure of the galaxy,
projection effects, and the fact that the most dusty regions can
be completely invisible at optical wavelengths.
Deriving the amount of dust from attenuation maps in the
optical is doable but prone to the aforementioned uncertainties
and is best done by means of radiative transfer models (see e.g.,
Popescu & Tuffs 2002; Baes et al. 2010; De Geyter et al. 2014;
Saftly et al. 2015, and references therein), which are well
beyond the goals of this work.
A much more reliable way, as opposed to the extinction map,
is to look at the dust thermal emission showing up at farinfrared and submillimeter wavelengths.
JO36 is located within a field recently observed with the
infrared space observatory Herschel (Pilbratt et al. 2010) as
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Table 6
Flux Densities and Corresponding Uncertainties, in Jansky, Measured on the
Five Herschel Bands from Archival Images
λ (μm)
Flux
Error
100
160
250
350
500
0.77
1.01
0.47
0.20
0.07
0.05
0.08
0.04
0.02
0.01
part of the program KPOT_mjuvela_1 (P.I. Mika Juvela,
Juvela 2007). These observations, taken with both the PACS
(Poglitsch et al. 2010) and SPIRE (Griffin et al. 2010)
instruments, reveal an intense infrared emission detected at
all wavelengths (100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 μm).
We reduced both PACS and SPIRE data in two steps, with
the first one making use of the latest version of hipe (v14.2.0)
to get the data to Level1, while the map making, de-glitching,
and baseline removal were performed with the latest version of
the IDL package SCANAMORPHOS (v25; Roussel 2013). We
measured fluxes in apertures encompassing the whole galaxy in
all maps, performing background subtraction as customary for
such kinds of data (see, e.g., Ciesla et al. 2012; Verstappen
et al. 2013; Cortese et al. 2014).
The much lower spatial resolution of Herschel data (the
highest resolution is reached for PACS at 100 μm and is about
6″), when compared to optical images, makes it very hard to
establish a spatial connection between the geometrical
distribution of the dust and that of the ionized gas, as derived
from MUSE data. Nevertheless, we can calculate a global
estimate of the total dust mass and use this value to infer the
gas mass.
Dust mass can be derived by means of SED fitting using a
modified blackbody model emission. In Table 6 we report the
measured infrared fluxes used for the modeling.
Figure 16 shows the infrared (IR) data points and the fit by
means of a standard modified blackbody model, whose
parameters are the mass of dust (i.e., the normalization), the
dust temperature, and the dust emissivity. The latter is
parametrized through the emissivity index, β, as defined in
the following:
⎛ n ⎞b B ( T )
Fn = MD k n 0 ⎜ ⎟ n 2 ,
⎝ n0 ⎠ D
Figure 16. Modified blackbody fit (black line) to the observed Herschel data
points (red triangles). A dust temperature of 20.63 K, b = 2.15, and dust mass
of 9.8 ´ 107 M are derived from this model.
range, we get an IR luminosity of 2.59 ´ 1010 L . We convert
this into an SFR using the Kennicutt (1998) relation, rescaled to
the Chabrier (2003) IMF using the conversion factor as in
Hayward et al. (2014):
SFRIR = 3.0 ´ 10-37LIR M yr-1,
(4 )
where LIR is expressed in W (note that the aforementioned
conversion factor is actually calculated for a Kroupa 2001 IMF,
which anyway has a minimal difference with respect to the IMF
we adopt here; see, e.g., Madau & Dickinson 2014). The SFR
calculated in this way is 2.98 M yr−1.
Using a lower value for β (1.5), the dust mass we obtain is
slightly lower, 5.8 ´ 107 M (and has a higher temperature
compared to the previously found value, namely T=26.72 K),
but the 160 μm point is underestimated by more than 20%, well
beyond the flux uncertainty in this band.
Following Eales et al. (2012) and using their Equation(2),
we can derive the total gas mass (i.e., the mass of the gas in all
phases) from submillimeter fluxes. Using the 500 μm flux and
assuming the Galactic gas-to-dust ratio, we get a value of
3.2 ´ 109 M. Similarly, following a much direct and
straightforward approach, we can simply convert the dust mass
into a gas mass of about 1010 M assuming the same Galactic
gas-to-dust ratio of 100. Both values of the gas mass are quite
consistent with those expected, within the observed dispersion,
in normal, non-starbursting galaxies of similar stellar mass to
JO36 (see, e.g., Magdis et al. 2012; Morokuma-Matsui & Baba
2015) and might give an indication that the majority of the gas
is still retained by the galaxy.
This, of course, heavily relies on the assumption of a given
gas-to-dust ratio that, for a galaxy in a cluster environment,
might not be strictly true. Cortese et al. (2010), studying the
spatially resolved dust emission versus the gas content on a
sample of galaxies in the Virgo cluster, found evidence of dusttruncated disks in highly H I-deficient galaxies (defH I > 0.87).
The fact that we observe such a high value of the dust mass can
be hence taken as an indication that the amount of atomic gas
(3 )
where MD is the dust mass, k n0 is the dust emissivity coefficient
at a reference frequency n0 , D is the distance to the galaxy, and
Bν is the Planck function (see, e.g., Smith et al. 2010a for an
application of this method to local galaxies). Although
simplistic, this fitting approach has been widely used in the
literature and has been proven to give a fair physical
approximation of the dust emission characteristics
(Bianchi 2013).
As for the dust emissivity coefficient, we adopted the
standard one from Draine (2003), which has a value of
0.192 m2 kg−1 at 350 μm. The dust mass derived in this way
ranges from ~6 ´ 107 to ∼108 M. More specifically, if we
leave the emissivity index β as a free parameter, we find a best
fit for a dust temperature of 21.42±1.80 K, an emissivity
+2.2
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index b = 2.17 0.32, and a dust mass of 9.81.8 ´ 10 M.
Integrating the blackbody model SED over the 10–1000 μm
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that has been stripped must yield a deficiency value smaller
than 0.87. Using the definition of H I deficiency given by
Chung et al. (2009) and assuming the aforementioned value for
defH I , we can calculate a lower limit for the H I mass in JO36.
The value we derive in this way is ~1.4 ´ 109 M. Again, this
value compares very well to the H I mass expected for galaxies
with similar stellar masses (see, e.g., Popping et al. 2014;
Jaskot et al. 2015).
Using PACS data at 100 μm, which are those with the
highest spatial resolution at these wavelengths, welooked for
evidence of a possible truncation in the dust disk. Convolving
the Hα image to the same 6″ resolution and regridding the map
obtained in this way to the same pixel size, we found a
somewhat good match between its extension and the one
observed from 100 μm emission. Despite this, we cannot claim
that there is a truncated dust disk, as Herschel images for this
data set are made with only one cross-scan and the data are
quite shallow. For this reason, it is more difficult to detect IR
emission in the galaxy’s outskirts, where dust is not only less
abundant (in part due to weaker projection effects as well), but
also colder.
If, instead, we look at the total extinction map (i.e., the
extinction value calculated over all of the stellar ages, whose
detection does not rely on the presence of emission lines) as
derived by SINOPSIS, we note that dust seems to be present
throughout the entire disk, affecting the starlight to different
degrees depending on the position.
To determine the mass of the ionized gas, we used the
relation between Hα luminosity and the mass of ionized
hydrogen, as described in Poggianti et al. (2017). This also
depends on the electron density, which we calculated from the
ratio of the sulfur forbidden doublet at 6714 and 6731 Å. To
calculate it, we adopted the prescription given in Proxauf et al.
(2014),
ne = 0.0543 · tan ( - 3.0553 ´ R + 2.8506) + 6.98
- 10.6905 ´ R + 9.9186 ´ R 2 - 3.5442 ´ R 3,
Figure 17. SPIRE 250 μm emission and radio contours (continuum emission at
1.4 GHz from Condon et al. 1998) of the region of the sky surrounding JO36.
related to the nearby BCG (VV 382 or GIN 049), and there is a
clear detection at the position of JO36.
These data can be used to derive another, independent
estimate of the ionized gas mass. Using the prescription given
in Galván-Madrid et al. (2008), which assumes that the gas is
homogeneously distributed within a sphere, we find a value
that is two orders of magnitude higher with respect to the
previously calculated one, meaning that the assumptions made
regarding the geometrical distribution of gas are probably too
strong, and this method cannot be applied to a jellyfish like
JO36 to derive the ionized gas mass. Emission from supernovae at these frequencies might also bias the result.
A further estimate of the SFR can be given using this data,
with the advantage that this tracer is insensitive to dust
extinction. With a luminosity L1.4 = 1.67 ´ 10 22 W Hz−1 and
using the prescription from Hopkins et al. (2003; see their
Equations(1) and (2)), we find an SFR of 9.2 M yr−1.
To summarize, we derived total gas masses from IR and
submillimeter data in the range between 3.2 ´ 109 and
1010 M. Both estimates rely on the assumption that a Galactic
gas-to-dust ratio can be used for this galaxy. A lower limit of
1.4 ´ 109 M to the H I mass was extrapolated from the
substantial presence of dust that we used as an indicator of the
maximum degree of H I deficiency. All of these values agree
with the gas mass expectations in galaxies of similar stellar
mass. The exception to this is the ionized gas mass, which is
lower by more than 2s when compared to the average relation
for similar galaxies.
The SFR calculated from the spectral fitting is ~5.9 M yr−1
and naturally takes into account and hence corrects for the
effect of dust attenuation. This SFR value depends on the
intensity of the Hα line and, even when corrected for
attenuation, might miss a completely embedded star formation
component (e.g., Leroy et al. 2008). Saftly et al. (2015), for
example, demonstrated that small-scale inhomogeneities and
structures in the ISM distribution (which could host severely
obscured star formation) can have a negligible effect on the
(5 )
where R = F6714 F6731 is the ratio between the fluxes of the
two lines (Poggianti et al. 2017). Equation (5) is valid in the
range 0.436 R 1.435. We used the line fluxes measured
by KUBEVIZ and, when R assumes a value outside the two
limits, we adopted a value equal to the closer limit. In case
neither of the two lines was measurable, we took R=0.966,
which is the average between the upper and lower limits. As for
the Hα flux, we used the value measured by KUBEVIZ on the
absorption-corrected spectra. The effect of dust attenuation was
also corrected for by using the value AV that SINOPSIS provides
for the young (i.e., line-emitting) stellar populations. This has
the advantage that an extinction value is given also when Hβ is
not available because it is too faint. No extinction correction
was applied in case AV was not calculated for a given spaxel.
The total ionized gas mass computed in this way amounts to
6.9 ´ 108 M. This mass is 2s lower than the average value
expected for galaxies of similar stellar mass (Popping
et al. 2014).
JO36 is also detected by the NVSS radio survey (Condon
et al. 1998) and has a (broad-band) flux density of 4.3±0.5
mJy at 1.4 GHz. The emission in this band is dominated by the
radio continuum, and it is therefore another tracer of the ionized
gas. In Figure 17, we present IR data together with the radio
(1.4 GHz) contours superimposed. The long radio tail is likely
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optical extinction, but their presence is revealed from their midand far-IR emission.
On the other hand, converting the IR emission into an SFR
yielded ~3 M yr−1. Deriving a value of the integrated SFR
that includes both components (i.e., extinction-corrected plus
completely obscured) is not straightforward: the timescales of
star formation that they sample are quite different, with Hα
being a tracer sensitive to the “instantaneous” star formation
(i.e., stars younger than ~107 yr) and the IR tracing starforming activity within 108 yr.
To be able to properly take these two components into
account, we calculated the UV flux expected from the
SINOPSIS model (no GALEX data are available for this galaxy)
and exploited it to derive the unobscured SFR component.
Using the prescription given in Kennicutt & Evans (2012), we
calculate a non-obscured SFR value of 3.4 M yr−1, which, as
UV bands typically sample timescales very close to those of the
IR, we can add to the value calculated from the dust emission.
Doing so, we get an SFR of 6.4 M yr−1, over a 100 Myr
timescale.
An extinction-independent value for the SFR is given by the
radio continuum, from which we calculated a value of 9.2 M yr−1,
which significantly higher with respect to the aforementioned
estimates. The discrepancy with respect to the previously calculated
values might come from the presence of an AGN (see Section 5.4),
even though one of relatively low luminosity, which could indeed
boost the radio emission.
In the next section, Section 7.1, we present various pieces of
evidence of active ram pressure in this galaxy, while in the
following sections we try to build a self-consistent picture that can
interpret the aforementioned observed features simultaneously.
7.1. Strength of the Ram Pressure in JO36
Given JO36ʼs vicinity to the core of A160 and its high
velocity within the cluster (see the phase–space diagram, as in
Jaffé et al. 2015, shown in Figure 18), it is likely that ram
pressure stripping (RPS) is or has been at play. The ram
pressure by the ICM can be estimated as Pram = r ICM ´ vcl2
(Gunn & Gott 1972), where r ICM (rcl ) is the radial density
profile of the ICM, rcl the clustercentric distance, and vcl the
velocity of the galaxy with respect to the cluster. Since A160 is
a low-mass cluster (velocity dispersion=561 km s−1), we
assume a smooth static ICM similar to that of the Virgo cluster.
Utilizing the density model used by Vollmer et al. (2001), we
can get an estimate of the ram pressure at the projected rcl and
line-of-sight velocity of JO36,
Pram = 9.5 ´ 10-14 Nm-2.
(6 )
To assess whether this is enough to strip gas from JO36, we
compute the anchoring force of the galaxy assuming an
exponential disk density profile for the stars and the gas
components (Ss and Sg respectively) defined as
⎛ M ⎞
S = ⎜ d2 ⎟ e-r rd ,
⎝ 2prd ⎠
7. Discussion
(7 )
where Md is the disk mass, rd the disk scale-length, and r the
radial distance from the center of the galaxy. For the stellar
component of JO36, we adopted a disk mass Md,stars = 5.2 ´
1010 M (accounting for a bulge to total ratio of 0.2) and a disk
scale-length rd,stars = 4.63 kpc , obtained by fitting the light
profile of the galaxy. For the gas component, we assumed a total
mass Md ,gas = 0.1 ´ Md ,stars, and scale-length rd,gas = 1.7 ´
rd,stars (Boselli & Gavazzi 2006).
The anchoring force in the disk can then be computed as
Pgal = 2pG Sg Ss at different radial distances from the center of
the galaxy (r). We find that the condition for stripping is met at
r ~ 13.4 kpc, where Pgal drops below Pram. This truncation
radius corresponds to ∼21% of the total gas mass stripped (see
the reference dashed line in the right panel of Figure 18).
The estimated fraction of stripped gas is consistent with the
lower limit of H I mass derived in Section 5 (from the dust
content), which, when compared to the gas mass in our disk
model, yields an upper limit for the fraction of stripped gas of
∼27%. It is also interesting to compare the expected stripping
from our modeling with the observed truncation radius. Taking
the extent of Hα emission as a good estimate, we get an
observed truncation radius of rt = 11 kpc, which corresponds
to more stripping than predicted (∼27% of the total gas mass;
solid blue line in Figure 18). We note, however, that the
predicted stripping suffers from uncertainties in the galaxy and
cluster model, and projection effects, and that it does not take
into account possible inhomogeneities of the ICM.
To test for the presence of substructures within the cluster,
we selected galaxies with significant deviations from the cluster
velocity dispersion (colored symbols) and found that JO36
does not belong to any clear group. A dynamical analysis of
A160 (Biviano et al. 2017) reveals several substructures, shown
The most important results we have obtained so far can be
summarized as follows.
1. The stellar disk extends out to a radius of about 25 kpc,
while the ionized gas only reaches galactrocentric
distances of about 15 kpc. We interpret this as clear
evidence of a truncated ionized gas disk.
2. A stellar tail, extending ∼5 kpc with respect to the main
body of the disk, is observed toward the south.
3. Four Hα blobs are present southwards of the galaxy,
close to the aforementioned tail.
4. The (ionized) gas velocity field is noticeably distorted,
especially when compared to the stellar one.
5. The dust mass is compatible with that expected in
“normal” field galaxies having similar stellar masses.
This strongly suggests that dust has not been stripped. If
dust is used as a tracer for the presence of gas, we infer a
total gas mass in the range expected for the physical
characteristics of this galaxy. The fact that no evidence of
significant dust stripping is found constrains the H I
deficiency level of the galaxy, and this was used to
estimate a lower limit of the H I mass.
6. The mass of ionized gas is at the lower limit with respect
to the value expected for galaxies of similar stellar mass.
7. Star formation is currently happening only in the central
region of the galaxy, within a 10 kpc radius, while the
external (r > 10 kpc) parts of the disk are dominated by
stars with ages <500 Myr.
8. The star formation history of the galaxy shows evidences
of an inside-out formation process. An enhancement in
the SFR happened between 20 and 500 Myr ago, more
deeply affecting the outer disk than the central regions.
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Figure 18. Left: position in the sky of the JO36 spectroscopic members from OmegaWINGS (small gray points), JO36 (star), and the BCG (red cross). Squares
correspond to identified substructures, which have been color-coded according to their probability of being random fluctuations (i.e., values close to zero indicate
highly significant substructure detections; Biviano et al. 2017). Right: phase–space diagram with symbols as in the left panel. Curves show the escape velocity in a
Navarro et al. (1997) halo. The dashed and solid blue lines correspond to 20% and 30% of the total gas mass stripped in JO36 by the ICM in a Virgo-like cluster (see
the text for details).
with colored squares in Figure 18. However, there is no
evidence for JO36 residing in any of these substructures. On
the contrary, its phase–space position suggests that this galaxy
has recently fallen into the cluster as an isolated galaxy.
Overall, our analysis shows that JO36 must have lost
between ∼20% and 30% of its total gas mass via ram pressure
stripping by A160ʼs ICM.
We now propose two mutually exclusive scenarios, each of
which is successful in explaining some of the observed features
listed above while, at the same time, failing to account for
others. The difference in the two scenarios simply lies in the
direction of the tangential velocity of the galaxy.
in locations opposite the direction of the galaxy motion. Just
like the aforementioned cases, the blobs we observe here retain
the disk velocity.
7.3. Tangential Velocity Toward the South (2)
Although scenario (1) is the most likely explanation for the
star-forming blobs, there are a number of other observed
features that it cannot account for.
Analyzing Figure 5, we already pointed out how the locus
where the gas has a zero radial velocity component is twisted
into an irregular “U” shape, with a concavity directed toward
the north, and it reaches galactocentric radii of about 8 kpc
toward the same direction. Similarly, gas with positive radial
velocities is found on the same side (the region labelled “F” in
Figure 5). This twisting of the gas rotational axis is a feature
that is predicted as a consequence of RPS by the aforementioned simulations of Merluzzi et al. (2016), where the
direction of the bending is directly related to the velocity of
the galaxy on the plane of the sky. This, in the case of JO36,
would be pointing to the cluster center.
This scenario would also explain why the star-forming
region, clearly visible in the right panel of Figure 8, is slightly
bent in a “C” shape pointing toward the southeast and offset,
with respect to the stellar continuum, in that direction. If shocks
between the gas within the galaxy and the gas in the intracluster
gas are responsible for the enhanced star formation, it is hence
logical to expect that this would happen first in the direction of
the interaction between the two gas components, which, in this
scenario, would be on this side of the disk.
7.2. Tangential Velocity Toward the North (1)
JO36 was selected as a possible jellyfish candidate because
of the presence of a tail, pointing toward the location of the
BCG, visible in WINGS V- and B-band images. This, together
with the detection of a few relatively bright Hα spots located
close to this tail, are features that we recover in MUSE data as
well (see the left panel of Figure 5 for the tail and the right
panel in the same figure for the blobs).
These features can be explained in a scenario where the
galaxy has a velocity component in the direction opposite to
the location of both the tail and the blobs, moving away from
the cluster center (the direction toward the X-ray center and the
location of the BCG are indicated by the two arrows in
Figure 5). In this picture, the denser gas in the central regions
of the cluster exerted an RPS force capable of ripping part of
the gas away from the galaxy, which would be now found in
the form of the observed Hα-emitting blobs. Something very
similar, although to a much more spectacular degree, is
observed in other jellyfish galaxies (e.g., Merluzzi et al. 2013,
2016; Fumagalli et al. 2014; Bellhouse et al. 2017; Poggianti
et al. 2017), where bright tails and star-forming blobs are found
7.4. More than Just One Mechanism at Play?
JO36 shows a clear signature of past and ongoing RPS. This
is further confirmed by the phase–space diagram (Figure 18)
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northern disk, while two of the Hα blobs appear to be almost
embedded within the disk, making it unclear whether they
effectively are jellyfish morphological features or nothing more
but regions of residual star formation from a quenched disk.
Nevertheless, the brightest and largest blobs (A and D) are,
even in projection, too far away to fill in this picture.
Different methods to infer the gas mass yielded values in
fairly good agreement with respect to each other, and these
point to a regular gas-to-stellar mass content.
In any case, given the relatively low mass of the A160
cluster (LX = 10 43.6 erg s−1, Ebeling et al. 1996, and sgal = 561
km s−1, Moretti et al. 2017), and given the dependency of the
RPS effect on the cluster gas density, we do not expect, at least
as long as short timescales are concerned, massive gas losses,
most of all given the geometry of the galaxy motion (numerical
simulations by Kronberger et al. 2008a have shown that edgeon systems are much less prone to gas loss) and the mass of the
galaxy.
One possible explanation for the extended stellar disk (i.e.,
the tail) is that it could be the result of a localized interaction.
Kronberger et al. (2006) performed numerical simulations to
study how galaxy encounters influence the kinematics of stellar
disks. For given sets of simulations parameters, they find that a
fly-by can affect the stellar rotation in the disk outskirts in
different ways depending on the configuration of the encounter
and on the line of sight of the observation. Some of the rotation
curves they extract from their simulations resemble the
asymmetry we observe in JO36 stellar kinematics and, in
particular, in the tail. Similarly, Pedrosa et al. (2008) claim that
bifurcations, i.e., asymmetries in the outer parts of a rotation
curve, such as those we observe in JO36, are a clear indicator
of a recent galaxy encounter.
It would be tempting to identify in one of the blobs (e.g.,
blob A, the most massive one) the possible candidate for this
kind of interaction. In this case, we would be witnessing the
later phases of an encounter between JO36 and a dwarf galaxy.
Nevertheless, the metallicity12 values we derive for blob A are
way too high to be compatible with those of a dwarf system,
being instead fully consistent, within the typical uncertainties,
with the metallicity of the outer gas that remains for now in
the disk.
that shows that the galaxy is well within the region where ram
pressure is strong enough to eventually strip all of the gas.
Hence, although it is quite clear that we are observing RPS
signatures, scenario (2) cannot naturally explain the presence of
the four gas blobs for which we would need to appeal to other
phenomena. On the other hand, scenario (1) seems to be
partially in contradiction with the gas velocity map. Such a
distortion naturally arises due to RPS if the galaxy were
moving in the opposite direction, i.e., toward the cluster center.
Furthermore, the stellar tail, visible in Figure 5, does not fit
either of the two proposed scenarios and needs other physical
mechanisms to be invoked. Although a morphological feature
clearly departing from the disk, it does not seem to have any
counterpart with similar characteristics in the north side of the
galaxy. Moreover, the (stellar) velocities follow the trend
observed in the disk itself, as expected if this were a natural
continuation of the disk, and have the highest values found in
the galaxy.
If this tail were the result of gas stripping from the outer disk
by ram pressure, one would expect that it retains a similar
velocity with respect to the region within the disk where it
came from. The measured velocities are higher by up to
50 km s−1 with respect to the rest of the disk (see also the
rotation curve in Figure 6).
In addition, the average age of the stellar populations of this
tail is compatible with a formation epoch up to 500 Myr ago,
and hence significantly older with respect to the ages derived
for the blobs that are rich in ionized gas and still actively star
forming. If this were to happen in a stripped gas component, we
would not be observing it still attached to the galaxy, as the gas
would have had the time to move away and detach from the
galaxy’s disk. On the other side, stars are not affected by RPS.
For these reasons, we can conclude that RPS cannot be the
mechanism by which this stellar tail originated, and we would
need to invoke a different mechanism to explain its formation.
According to numerical simulations performed by Kronberger et al. (2008a) that aimed to study the effect of ram pressure
on the star formation of spiral galaxies, the observed enhanced
star formation rate in stellar populations with ages in the
20–500 Myr range is a direct effect of the interaction between
the gas in the galaxy and that in the ICM. This would somehow
date the beginning of the interaction between the galaxy and
the hot gas in the cluster.
Following the same authors, when the interaction is “edge
on,” such as in our case, the gas loss is much lower compared
to a face-on interaction, the main signature of ram pressure
being a distortion and compression in the gas disk, which is
indeed what we observe. Enhanced SFRs by up to a factor of
3 are observed in these simulations, compatible with the values
we derived by spectral fitting (see also Koopmann &
Kenney 2004).
Numerical simulations from the same group (Kronberger
et al. 2008b), focusing on the effects on the rotation curves and
velocity fields of the gas, show a stronger distortion of the gas
distribution in edge-on interactions compared to the face-on
case. They also observe a displacement on the rotation axis of
stars and gas, something that we do not find.
Integrating the observed datacube with respect to the
wavelength coordinate, we get a high S/N picture that better
allows the morphology of the lowest surface brightness
components of the galaxy (Figure 9) to be viewed. By doing
this, we can confirm the absence of a tidal feature in the
8. Summary and Conclusions
In this work, we undertook an analysis of the properties of
the stellar populations and of the interstellar medium in JO36, a
galaxy in the Abel 160 cluster, with slightly distorted optical
morphology, which is possibly a signature of gas stripping. We
used these observations to validate our spectral fitting code,
SINOPSIS, for applications to IFU data analysis by comparing
its results with those obtained from GANDALF, a well-known
and widely used code generally exploited to derive the
properties of emission lines and of the underlying stellar
populations. This comparison indicates that our approach gives
robust results fully compatible with those obtained with
GANDALF on the same data set.
From the results of the kinematic analysis and of the stellar
population properties in this galaxy, we draw the following
conclusions.
12
Metallicities are calculated throughout the whole galaxy by means of the
pyqz code by Dopita et al. (2013). Further details on this issue can be found in
Poggianti et al. (2017), but see also Kewley & Ellison (2008) 4for absolute
uncertainties assessment.
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1. JO36 shows no spectacular morphological signatures of
gas stripping such as those commonly encountered in the
so-called jellyfish galaxies, but the ionized gas disk is
clearly truncated with respect to the stellar one.
2. If any gas stripping has occurred in the past, it most likely
involved a minor fraction of the total gas in the galaxy.
Substantial gas depletion due to an intense star-forming
episode that happened about 500 Myr ago could have
contributed to the creation of the truncated ionized
gas disk.
3. From a kinematical point of view, the rotation curve of
the gas displays asymmetries in the outer parts of the
disk, with a rotation axis strongly distorted and
suggestive of a velocity component toward the center of
the cluster. This is in agreement with numerical
simulations of RPS acting with a relative velocity parallel
to the galaxy plane (edge-on).
4. The presence of Hα blobs close to the southern edge of
the galaxy might suggest a tangential velocity component
in the north direction, something that seems to be
incompatible with the morphological characteristics of
the gas rotational axis.
5. The presence of a stellar tail in the southern disk, with no
clear counterpart in the opposite direction, cannot be
attributed to ram pressure effects. Its velocities follow the
stellar rotation curve from the inner parts and are higher
than those measured across the entire galaxy disk.
Composed of stellar populations of ages between
2 ´ 107 and 5 ´ 108 yr and showing no evidence for
the presence of gas, it can be the result of a gravitational
interaction with a less massive galaxy, as suggested by
numerical simulations.
6. There is no evidence of AGN activity, at least as far as
diagnostic lines are concerned. However, the detection of
a strong emission in the X-rays strongly suggests the
possible presence of a deeply obscured AGN (F. Nicastro
et al. 2017, in preparation).
galaxy, which indicates a velocity component toward the
north, with the distorted shape of the gas rotational axis,
which suggests instead a velocity component toward the
south. Dedicated numerical simulations are probably the best
tool to figure out the kinematics of the galaxy and give hints
on its orbit to better understand the relation between its star
formation history and the interaction with the cluster
environment.
With respect to the first point in our final remarks, it should
be noted that the MUSE data for this galaxy basically cover all
of its disk but we cannot draw any conclusion on the possible
presence of stripped tails at larger distances, which passed
unobserved in optical images. Furthermore, we lack H I data to
derive the atomic mass distribution and to give a final word on
the dynamical history of the galaxy.
Both Poggianti et al. (2016) and McPartland et al. (2016)
stress the importance of spectroscopic data to unveil the
occurrence of gas-stripping signatures as opposed to pure
photometric detections. In this particular case, the MUSE data
turned out to be critical to uncover a second dynamical
mechanism affecting this galaxy, most likely a gravitational
interaction with a much less massive galaxy.
We would like to thank the anonymous referee, whose
suggestions and criticism helped us improve the quality and
presentation of the results of the paper. Based on observations
collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical
Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme
196.B-0578. J.F. warmly thanks Anna Feltre for all of the
advice in running CLOUDY, Theodoros Bitsakis for stimulating
discussions, and Raul Naranjo and Daniel Díaz Gonzalez who
helped with some of the technicalities in SINOPSIS.
J.F. acknowledges financial support from the UNAMDGAPA-PAPIIT IA104015 grant, México. G.B. acknowledges
support for this work from UNAM through grant PAPIIT
IG100115. This work was co-funded under the Marie Curie
Actions of the European Commission (FP7-COFUND) B.V.
acknowledges support from an Australian Research Council
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (PD0028506).
B.C.S. acknowledges financial support through PAPIIT project
IA103517 from DGAPA-UNAM.
Software: SINOPSIS, gandalf (Sarzi et al. 2006), cloudy
(Ferland 1993; Ferland et al. 1998, 2013), kubeviz (Fossati
et al. 2016), pPXF (Cappellari & Emsellem 2004; Cappellari
2012), pyqz (Dopita et al. 2013), scanamorphos (Roussel 2013),
HIPE, IDL, Python.
JO36 is a moderately massive spiral that is subject to RPS as
several pieces of evidence suggest. The truncated ionized gas
disk, the low ratio of H II/M* with respect to similar galaxies,
the disturbed gas kinematics, the presence of ionized gas
regions clearly detached from disk, its location on the phase–
space diagram of the cluster, and finally an episode of enhanced
star formation strongly involving the outer disk all point to ram
pressure being caught in the act.
We also speculate that the stripped gas is probably a minor
fraction of the gas in the galaxy. By indirect calculations of
the amount of total gas and of H I, we find that the gas content
is quite typical, given the stellar mass of the galaxy.
Furthermore, the moderately intense star formation likely
induced by shocks between the gas within the galaxy and the
one in the ICM, has consumed a substantial amount of gas.
Indeed, in the analysis of their numerical simulations,
Kronberger et al. (2008a) propose that loss of gas by RPS,
together with depletion due to star formation, is the reason
for the decrease, and eventual quenching, of the star
formation rate.
What is less clear is instead the direction of the ram
pressure or, equivalently, of the galaxy motion within the
cluster. In fact, we could not reconcile in a self-consistent
manner the presence of ionized gas in the southern part of the
ORCID iDs
Jacopo Fritz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-1965
Alessia Moretti https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1688-482X
Marco Gullieuszik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7296-9780
Bianca Poggianti https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8751-8360
Gustavo Bruzual https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6971-5755
Benedetta Vulcani https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0980-1499
Fabrizio Nicastro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-1364
Bernardo Cervantes Sodi https://orcid.org/0000-00022897-9121
Daniela Bettoni https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-6496
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Stéphane Charlot https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3458-2275
Callum Bellhouse https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6179-8007
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