A UNIFIED LINEAR INTRINSIC ALIGNMENT MODEL FOR ELLIPTICAL AND DISC GALAXIES AND THE RESULTING ELLIPTICITY SPECTRA

Ghosh, B and Nussbaumer, K and Giesel, ES and Schäfer, BM (2024) A UNIFIED LINEAR INTRINSIC ALIGNMENT MODEL FOR ELLIPTICAL AND DISC GALAXIES AND THE RESULTING ELLIPTICITY SPECTRA. In: Open Journal of Astrophysics, 7 .

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Abstract

Alignments of spiral galaxies were thought to result from tidal torquing, where tidal field of the cosmic large-scale structure exert torquing moments onto dark matter haloes, determining their angular momentum and ultimately the orientation of galactic discs. In this model, resulting intrinsic ellipticity correlations are typically present on small scales, but neither observations nor simulations have found empirical evidence; instead, simulations point at the possibility that alignments of disc galaxies follow a similar alignment model as elliptical galaxies, but with a weaker alignment amplitude. In our article we make the case for the theory of linear alignments resulting from tidal distortions of the galactic disc, investigate the physical properties of this model and derive the resulting angular ellipticity spectra, as they would appear as a contribution to weak gravitational lensing in surveys such as Euclid�s. We discuss in detail on the statistical and physical properties of tidally induced alignments in disc galaxies, as they are relevant for mitigation of alignment contamination in weak lensing data, comment on the consistency between the alignment amplitude in spiral and elliptical galaxies and finally, estimate their observability with an Euclid-like survey. © 2024, National University of Ireland Maynooth. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Open Journal of Astrophysics
Publisher:	National University of Ireland Maynooth
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2024 07:45
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2024 08:08
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85486

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