Zusammenfassung
This paper presents a spatially-resolved kinematic study of the jellyfish
galaxy JO201, one of the most spectacular cases of ram-pressure stripping (RPS)
in the GASP (GAs Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE) survey. By studying
the environment of JO201, we find that it is moving through the dense
intra-cluster medium of Abell 85 at supersonic speeds along our line of sight,
and that it is likely accompanied by a small group of galaxies. Given the
density of the intra-cluster medium and the galaxy's mass, projected position
and velocity within the cluster, we estimate that JO201 must so far have lost
~50% of its gas during infall via RPS. The MUSE data indeed reveal a smooth
stellar disk, accompanied by large projected tails of ionised (Halpha) gas,
composed of kinematically cold (velocity dispersion <40km/s) star-forming knots
and very warm (>100km/s) diffuse emission which extend out to at least ~50 kpc
from the galaxy centre. The ionised Halpha-emitting gas in the disk rotates
with the stars out to ~6 kpc but in the disk outskirts becomes increasingly
redshifted with respect to the (undisturbed) stellar disk. The observed
disturbances are consistent with the presence of gas trailing behind the
stellar component, resulting from intense face-on RPS happening along the line
of sight. Our kinematic analysis is consistent with the estimated fraction of
lost gas, and reveals that stripping of the disk happens outside-in, causing
shock heating and gas compression in the stripped tails.
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