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球状星系的大规模组装史:新形成的系统是通过大合并产生的吗?

The Mass Assembly History of Spheroidal Galaxies: Did Newly-Formed Systems Arise Via Major Mergers?

K. Bundy, T. Treu, R. S. Ellis

摘要:

我们研究了GOODS场中0.4<z<1.0球状星系的形态选择样本的性质,以确定它们的丰度随时间的增加是否主要来自合并。为了解决这个问题,我们确定从恒星速度色散确定的动力学质量之间的比例关系,并从光学和红外测光确定的恒星质量。我们利用这些关系在更大的样本,我们有恒星质量,以构建第一个统计上稳健的估计的演变动力学质量函数在0<z<1。观测到的趋势与邦迪等人2005年关于球状星系丰度自上而下增长的恒星质量函数中所见的趋势相匹配。通过参考我们的动力学质量的晕维里质量,我们比较的增长率在丰富的球状体的预测组装的暗物质晕。我们的比较表明,主要的合并并不能完全解释新的球状体的出现,因为z~1和额外的机制,如形态的变化,需要驱动观察到的演变。

英文摘要:

We examine the properties of a morphologically-selected sample of 0.4<z<1.0 spheroidal galaxies in the GOODS fields in order to ascertain whether their increase in abundance with time arises primarily from mergers. To address this question we determine scaling relations between the dynamical mass determined from stellar velocity dispersions, and the stellar mass determined from optical and infrared photometry. We exploit these relations across the larger sample for which we have stellar masses in order to construct the first statistically robust estimate of the evolving dynamical mass function over 0<z<1. The trends observed match those seen in the stellar mass functions of Bundy et al. 2005 regarding the top-down growth in the abundance of spheroidal galaxies. By referencing our dynamical masses to the halo virial mass we compare the growth rate in the abundance of spheroidals to that predicted by the assembly of dark matter halos. Our comparisons demonstrate that major mergers do not fully account for the appearance of new spheroidals since z~1 and that additional mechanisms, such as morphological transformations, are required to drive the observed evolution.

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