HI asymmetries in spatially resolved SIMBA galaxies
arXiv:2506.15827 · doi:10.1093/mnras/staf878
Abstract
We present a study of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) content of spatially resolved, low-redshift galaxies in the SIMBA cosmological simulations. We create synthetic HI data cubes designed to match observations from the Apertif Medium-Deep HI imaging survey, and follow an observational approach to derive the HI size-mass relation. The HI size-mass relation for SIMBA is in broad agreement with the observed relation to within 0.1 dex, but SIMBA galaxies are slightly smaller than expected at fixed HI mass. We quantify the HI spectral () and morphological () asymmetries of the galaxies and motivate standardizing the relative spatial resolution when comparing values in a sample that spans several orders of magnitude in HI mass. Galaxies are classified into three categories (isolated, interacted, or merged) based on their dynamical histories over the preceding ~2 Gyr to contextualize disturbances in their HI reservoirs. We determine that the interacted and merged categories have higher mean asymmetries than the isolated category, with a larger separation between the categories' distributions than between their distributions. For the interacted and merged categories, we find an inverse correlation between baryonic mass and that is not observed between baryonic mass and . These results, coupled with the weak correlation found between and , highlight the limitations of only using to infer the HI distributions of spatially unresolved HI detections.
22 pages, 11 figures (including appendices). Accepted for publication in MNRAS
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