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星系风对矮球状星系恒星金属丰度分布的影响

Effects of the galactic winds on the stellar metallicity distribution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Gustavo A. Lanfranchi, Francesca Matteucci

摘要:

为了研究星系风对天龙座和小熊座矮球状星系的恒星金属丰度分布和演化的影响,我们比较了几种化学演化模型的预测,采用不同的处方的星系风,光度导出的恒星金属丰度分布的两个星系。天龙座和小熊座的化学演化模型能够再现这两个星系的几个观测特征,如几个丰度比,考虑到中等质量恒星和这两种超新星的最新核合成,以及这些物体对系统能量的影响。对于这两个星系,最适合数据的模型包含强烈的连续星系风,其发生率与恒星形成率成正比。假设风速只与超新星速率成正比的模型也能重现观测到的SMD,但与气体质量不匹配,而没有星系风的模型则无法重现观测到的SMD。在小熊座的情况下,与以前的作品相同的模型再现了观测到的分布非常好,不需要修改模型的主要参数。另一方面,Draco的模型略有修改。观测到的SMD需要一个具有较低Ia型超新星热化效率的模型($η_{SNeIa}$ = 0.5而不是$η_{SNeIa}$ = 1.0),以延迟银河风,而所有其他参数保持不变。与观测结果相比,模型结果强烈表明,强烈和连续的星系风在当地dSphs的演变中起着非常重要的作用。

英文摘要:

To study the effects of galactic winds on the stellar metallicity distributions and on the evolution of Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxies, we compared the predictions of several chemical evolution models, adopting different prescriptions for the galactic winds, with the photometrically-derived stellar metallicity distributions of both galaxies. The chemical evolution models for Draco and Ursa Minor, which are able to reproduce several observational features of these two galaxies, such as the several abundance ratios, take up-to-date nucleosynthesis into account for intermediate-mass stars and supernovae of both types, as well as the effect of these objects on the energetics of the systems. For both galaxies, the model that best fits the data contains an intense continuous galactic wind, occurring at a rate proportional to the star formation rate. Models with a wind rate assumed to be proportional only to the supernova rate also reproduce the observed SMD, but do not match the gas mass, whereas the models with no galactic winds fail to reproduce the observed SMDs. In the case of Ursa Minor, the same model as in previous works reproduces the observed distribution very well with no need to modify the main parameters of the model. The model for Draco, on the other hand, is slightly modified. The observed SMD requires a model with a lower supernova type Ia thermalization efficiency ($η_{SNeIa}$ = 0.5 instead of $η_{SNeIa}$ = 1.0) in order to delay the galactic wind, whereas all the other parameters are kept the same. The model results, compared to observations, strongly suggest that intense and continuous galactic winds play a very important role in the evolution of local dSphs.

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