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© 2017 The Author(s).We analyse the velocity dispersion properties of 472 z~0.9 star-forming galaxies observed as part of the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS). The majority of this sample is rotationally dominated (83 ± 5 per cent with vC/σ0 > 1) but also dynamically hot and highly turbulent. After correcting for beam smearing effects, the median intrinsic velocity dispersion for the final sample is σ0 =43.2 ± 0.8 kms-1 with a rotational velocity to dispersion ratio of vC/σ0 =2.6 ± 0.1. To explore the relationship between velocity dispersion, stellar mass, star formation rate, and redshift, we combine KROSS with data from the SAMI survey (z~0.05) and an intermediate redshift MUSE sample (z~0.5). Whilst there is, at most, a weak trend between velocity dispersion and stellar mass, at fixed mass there is a strong increase with redshift. At all redshifts, galaxies appear to follow the same weak trend of increasing velocity dispersion with star formation rate. Our results are consistent with an evolution of galaxy dynamics driven by discs that are more gas rich, and increasingly gravitationally unstable, as a function of increasing redshift. Finally, we test two analytic models that predict turbulence is driven by either gravitational instabilities or stellar feedback. Both provide an adequate description of the data, and further observations are required to rule out either model.
Author(s): Johnson HL, Harrison CM, Swinbank AM, Tiley AL, Stott JP, Bower RG, Smail I, Bunker AJ, Sobral D, Turner OJ, Best P, Bureau M, Cirasuolo M, Jarvis MJ, Magdis G, Sharples RM, Bland-Hawthorn J, Catinella B, Cortese L, Croom SM, Federrath C, Glazebrook K, Sweet SM, Bryant JJ, Goodwin M, Konstantopoulos IS, Lawrence JS, Medling AM, Owers MS, Richards S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2018
Volume: 474
Issue: 4
Pages: 5076-5104
Print publication date: 01/03/2018
Online publication date: 23/11/2017
Acceptance date: 21/11/2017
Date deposited: 04/02/2020
ISSN (print): 0035-8711
ISSN (electronic): 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX3016
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STX3016
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