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The MAGPI Survey: the kinematic morphology-density relation (or lack thereof) and the Hubble sequence at z ∼ 0.3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

Caroline Foster*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
Mark W. Donoghoe
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Unit, Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Kirby Institute, Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Stats Central, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Andrew Battisti
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Francesco D’Eugenio
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, United Kingdom Cavendish Laboratory - Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
Katherine Harborne
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Thomas Venville
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Claudia Del P. Lagos
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
J. Trevor Mendel
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Ryan Bagge
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
Stefania Barsanti
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Sabine Bellstedt
Affiliation:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Alina Boecker
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Vía Láctea s/n, E-38205 La Laguna, Spain Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstraße 17, 1180, Vienna, Austria
Qianhui Chen
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Caro Derkenne
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Anna Ferré-Matteu
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Vía Láctea s/n, E-38205 La Laguna, Spain Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Eda Gjergo
Affiliation:
School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics (Nanjing University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
Anshu Gupta
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia
Eric G. M. Muller
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Giulia Santucci
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Hye-Jin Park
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
Rhea-Silvia Remus
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
Sabine Thater
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstraße 17, 1180, Vienna, Austria
Jesse van de Sande
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
Sam Vaughan
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Sarah Brough
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
Scott M. Croom
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, A28, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Lucas M. Valenzuela
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
Emily Wisnioski
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia
*
Author for correspondence: Caroline Foster, Email: [email protected].

Abstract

This work presents visual morphological and dynamical classifications for 637 spatially resolved galaxies, most of which are at intermediate redshift (z ∼ 0.3), in the Middle-Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral field spectroscopy (MAGPI) Survey. For each galaxy, we obtain a minimum of 11 independent visual classifications by knowledgeable classifiers. We use an extension of the standard Dawid-Skene Bayesian model introducing classifier-specific confidence parameters and galaxy-specific difficulty parameters to quantify classifier confidence and infer reliable statistical confidence estimates. Selecting sub-samples of 86 bright (r < 20 mag) high-confidence (> 0.98) morphological classifications at redshifts (0.2 ≤ z ≤ 0.4), we confirm the full range of morphological types is represented in MAGPI as intended in the survey design. Similarly, with a sub-sample of 82 bright high-confidence stellar kinematic classifications, we find that the rotating and non-rotating galaxies seen at low redshift are already in place at intermediate redshifts. We do not find evidence that the kinematic morphology-density relation seen at z ∼ 0 is established at z ∼ 0.3. We suggest that galaxies without obvious stellar rotation are dynamically pre-processed sometime before z ∼ 0.3 within lower mass groups before joining denser environments.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Astronomical Society of Australia

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