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椭圆星系紫外向上翻转的双星模型(MNRAS版)

A binary model for the UV-upturn of elliptical galaxies (MNRAS version)

Z. Han, Ph. Podsiadlowski, A. E. Lynas-Gray

摘要:

1969年,椭圆星系的远紫外线光谱中的通量过剩的发现是一个重大的惊喜。虽然现在很清楚,这种紫外线过量是由没有大量富氢包层的热氦燃烧恒星的老种群引起的,而不是年轻恒星,但它们的起源仍然是一个谜。在这里,我们表明,这些恒星最有可能失去了他们的信封,因为二元相互作用,类似于我们自己的银河系中的热亚矮星人口。基于Han等(2002,2003)提出的银河系热次矮星形成的双星模型,我们发展了一个椭圆星系远紫外线过剩的演化人口合成模型。尽管它的简单,它成功地再现了椭圆星系的紫外线过剩的大部分属性:观测到的紫外线过剩的范围,无论是在$(1550-V)$和$(2000-V)$,和它们的红移的演变。我们还提出了颜色,颜色图作为诊断工具,在椭圆星系的研究。该模型具有重大意义的理解的紫外线过剩和椭圆星系的演变一般。特别是,它意味着紫外线过剩不是年龄的标志,因为已经假设以前,并预测它不应该强烈依赖于人口的金属丰度,但普遍存在从矮椭圆星系到巨型椭圆星系。

英文摘要:

The discovery of a flux excess in the far-ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of elliptical galaxies was a major surprise in 1969. While it is now clear that this UV excess is caused by an old population of hot helium-burning stars without large hydrogen-rich envelopes, rather than young stars, their origin has remained a mystery. Here we show that these stars most likely lost their envelopes because of binary interactions, similar to the hot subdwarf population in our own Galaxy. We have developed an evolutionary population synthesis model for the far-UV excess of elliptical galaxies based on the binary model developed by Han et al (2002, 2003) for the formation of hot subdwarfs in our Galaxy. Despite its simplicity, it successfully reproduces most of the properties of elliptical galaxies with a UV excess: the range of observed UV excesses, both in $(1550-V)$ and $(2000-V)$, and their evolution with redshift. We also present colour-colour diagrams for use as diagnostic tools in the study of elliptical galaxies. The model has major implications for understanding the evolution of the UV excess and of elliptical galaxies in general. In particular, it implies that the UV excess is not a sign of age, as had been postulated previously, and predicts that it should not be strongly dependent on the metallicity of the population, but exists universally from dwarf ellipticals to giant ellipticals.

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