iMaNGA: mock MaNGA galaxies based on IllustrisTNG and MaStar SSPs. II. the catalogue 后印本

摘要: To test the current theory on galaxy formation and evolution, it is essential to strengthening the synergy between simulations and observations. For this reason, in our previous paper of this series, we presented a method to mock SDSS-IV/MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic galaxy observations from cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Here we present the resulting mock galaxy catalogue. This catalogue consists of 1,000 unique galaxies in TNG50 falling into the SDSS-IV/MaNGA-Primary target footprint, defined in the redshift and i-band absolute magnitude space, i.e. the iMaNGA sample. In this paper, we describe the general characteristics of the catalogue, in terms of morphology, kinematics, and stellar population properties. We also investigate our ability to recover the galaxy characteristics, as given by the simulations, analysing the synthetic spectra. We demonstrate that the `intrinsic' and recovered stellar kinematics, and stellar age and metallicity are consistent with zero within the 1$-{\sigma}$ level, for all the $\sim 8$ million tassels in the iMaNGA sample presented in this paper. We also compare `intrinsic' and recovered star formation histories, noting a strong resemblance. Therefore, our mocking and spectral fitting processes do not distort `intrinsic' galaxy properties, hence we can use these results for scientific analysis. In the future papers of this series, we will present a comprehensive comparison and scientific analysis of TNG50 simulations with MaNGA observational results.