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GOODS/CDF-S场中年轻早型星系演化的证据

Evidence for the Evolution of Young Early-Type Galaxies in the GOODS/CDF-S Field

Thomas H. Puzia, Bahram Mobasher, Paul Goudfrooij

摘要:

我们已经开发出一种有效的测光技术,用于识别年轻的早期类型的星系候选人使用测光红移,光谱类型分类,光学/近红外颜色的组合。应用我们的技术的GOODS HST/ACS和VLT/ISAAC数据,我们已经选择了一个完整的和均匀的样本年轻的椭圆候选人之间的早期型场星系。这些候选者的结构参数的分布表明,他们的选择,这是基于早期光谱类型,是完全符合早期形态类型。我们调查其亮度和颜色的红移和星系质量的函数的演变,并找到证据,在这些年轻的早期类型的星系候选人在更高的红移,我们解释在大规模的场星系经历更大规模/激烈的星爆在更高的红移增加星暴质量分数。此外,我们发现一个系统的更大的年轻的椭圆形分数之间的子L */2早型星系的迹象相比,他们更明亮的同行。场早型星系的总比例随红移的增加而增加,与星系光度无关。我们的研究结果是最一致的星系形成的情况下,在大规模的早期型场星系的恒星组装早于他们的低质量同行。

英文摘要:

We have developed an efficient photometric technique for identifying young early-type galaxy candidates using a combination of photometric redshifts, spectral-type classification, and optical/near-infrared colors. Applying our technique to the GOODS HST/ACS and VLT/ISAAC data we have selected a complete and homogeneous sample of young elliptical candidates among early-type field galaxies. The distribution of structural parameters for these candidates shows that their selection, which is based on early spectral types, is fully consistent with early morphological types. We investigate the evolution of their luminosities and colors as a function of redshift and galaxy mass and find evidence for an increasing starburst mass fraction in these young early-type galaxy candidates at higher redshifts, which we interpret in terms of massive field galaxies experiencing more massive/intense starbursts at higher redshifts. Moreover, we find indications for a systematically larger young elliptical fraction among sub-L*/2 early-type galaxies compared to their brighter counterparts. The total fraction among the field early-type galaxies increases with redshift, irrespective of galaxy luminosity. Our results are most consistent with galaxy formation scenarios in which stars in massive early-type field galaxies are assembled earlier than in their low-mass counterparts.

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