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通过颜色的结构:理解Galerkin的像素方法

Structure Through Colour: A Pixel Approach Towards Understanding Galaxies

M. M. Lanyon-Foster, C. J. Conselice, M. R. Merrifield

摘要:

我们提出了一个像素色星等图(pCMD)的样本69个附近的星系选择跨越广泛的哈勃类型的研究。我们的目标是确定如何有用的像素方法是研究星系根据其恒星光分布和内容。对星系图像进行逐像素分析,以揭示单个pCMD的结构。我们发现每个像素的平均表面亮度(或投影质量密度)根据星系类型而变化。早型星系具有明显的“素数序列”,某些正旋星系的pCMD显示出“倒L”结构。我们发现,在一个给定的大小的色散被发现是近似恒定的早期型星系,但这个数量在中期和晚期型的变化。我们调查个别星系,发现pCMD可以用来挑选出形态特征。我们讨论了“红钩”在六个早期型星系和两个螺旋的pCMD的发现,并假设它们的起源。我们开发了定量的方法来测量pCMD,包括测量每个星系的蓝红光比和颜色分布,并按形态类型组织这些。我们将每个星系中像素的颜色与Bruzual & Charlot(2003)的恒星星族模型进行比较,以计算每个星系类型的恒星形成历史,并将其与每个像素内的恒星质量进行比较。像素恒星质量和质光比的地图进行了比较,星系图像。我们应用pCMD技术在哈勃超深场的三个星系测试的有用性的分析在高红移。我们建议,这些结果可以作为一个新的系统的自动分类的星系,可以应用于高红移的一部分。

英文摘要:

We present a study of pixel Colour Magnitude Diagrams (pCMDs) for a sample of 69 nearby galaxies chosen to span a wide range of Hubble types. Our goal is to determine how useful a pixel approach is for studying galaxies according to their stellar light distributions and content. The galaxy images were analysed on a pixel-by-pixel basis to reveal the structure of the individual pCMDs. We find that the average surface brightness (or projected mass density) in each pixel varies according to galaxy type. Early-type galaxies exihibit a clear ``prime sequence'' and some pCMDs of face-on spirals reveal ``inverse-L'' structures. We find that the colour dispersion at a given magnitude is found to be approximately constant in early-type galaxies but this quantity varies in the mid and late-types. We investigate individual galaxies and find that the pCMDs can be used to pick out morphological features. We discuss the discovery of ``Red Hooks'' in the pCMDs of six early-type galaxies and two spirals and postulate their origins. We develop quantitative methods to characterise the pCMDs, including measures of the blue-to-red light ratio and colour distributions of each galaxy and we organise these by morphological type. We compare the colours of the pixels in each galaxy with the stellar population models of Bruzual & Charlot (2003) to calculate star formation histories for each galaxy type and compare these to the stellar mass within each pixel. Maps of pixel stellar mass and mass-to-light ratio are compared to galaxy images. We apply the pCMD technique to three galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to test the usefulness of the analysis at high redshift. We propose that these results can be used as part of a new system of automated classification of galaxies that can be applied at high redshift.

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