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The local Universe in the era of large surveys. III. Radial activity profilesof S0 galaxies
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Spatially resolved MaNGA’s optical spectra of 1072 present-day lenticular (S0) galaxies, dimensionally reduced from a principal component analysis (PCA), are used to determine their radial activity structure shaped by any possible nebular ionization source. Activity profiles within 1 . 5 R e are examined in tandem with the mass, age, ellipticity, and kinematics of the stars, as well as environmental density. Among the results of this comparison, we find that the sign of the radial activity gradient of S0s is tightly related to their PCA classification, BPT designation, and star formation status. PCA-passive lenticulars often show low-level, f lat activity profiles, although there is also a significant number of systems with positive gradients, while their less common active counterparts generally have negative gradients, usually associated with high SSFRs and, sometimes, moderate Seyfert emission. A fraction of the latter also shows radial activity profiles with positive gradients, which become more abundant with increasing stellar mass regardless of environmental density. Our analysis also reveals that the subset of active S0s with ne gativ e gradients experiences at all galactocentric radii a systematic reduction in its median acti vity le vel with stellar mass, consistent with expectations for main-sequence galaxies. In contrast, passive S0s with positive gradients show the opposite behaviour. Furthermore, systems whose activity is dominated by star formation are structurally rounder than the rest of S0s, while those classified as Seyfert exhibit higher rotational support. The possibility that negative and positi ve acti vity gradients in S0s may result from rejuvenation by two distinct types of minor mergers is raised
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TOUS MAYOL, Josep Lluís, et al. The local Universe in the era of large surveys. III. Radial activity profilesof S0 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 528, num. 3260-3280. ISSN 0035-8711. [consulted: 13 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215626