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从存档的ACS图像看表面亮度起伏:一个恒星星族和距离研究

Surface Brightness Fluctuations from archival ACS images: a stellar population and distance study

Michele Cantiello, John P. Blakeslee, Gabriella Raimondo, Enzo Brocato, Massimo Capaccioli

摘要:

我们推导出表面亮度波动(SBF)和综合幅度在V和I波段使用先进的相机调查(ACS)的档案数据。该样本包括14个星系,涵盖了广泛的物理性质:形态,总绝对星等,综合颜色。我们利用后一个特征的样本检查现有的经验校准的绝对SBF幅度在I-和V-通带。此外,通过比较我们的SBF和颜色数据与Teramo-SPoT简单的恒星星族模型,和其他最近的人口合成模型,我们讨论了恒星星族研究的波动幅度分析的基础上的可行性。这项研究的主要结果是,多波段光学SBF数据和综合颜色可以用来显着约束的化学成分的星系中占主导地位的恒星系统,但不是年龄的情况下,系统的年龄大于3 Gyr。SBF颜色梯度也被检测和分析。这些SBF梯度数据,连同其他可用的数据,指出在星系中存在质量依赖的金属丰度梯度,与更大质量的物体显示出不可忽略的SBF与颜色梯度。与模型的比较表明,这样的梯度意味着星系内部区域的恒星星族比外部区域更富含金属。

英文摘要:

We derive Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) and integrated magnitudes in the V- and I-bands using Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) archival data. The sample includes 14 galaxies covering a wide range of physical properties: morphology, total absolute magnitude, integrated color. We take advantage of the latter characteristic of the sample to check existing empirical calibrations of absolute SBF magnitudes both in the I- and V-passbands. Additionally, by comparing our SBF and color data with the Teramo-SPoT simple stellar population models, and other recent sets of population synthesis models, we discuss the feasibility of stellar population studies based on fluctuation magnitudes analysis. The main result of this study is that multiband optical SBF data and integrated colors can be used to significantly constrain the chemical composition of the dominant stellar system in the galaxy, but not the age in the case of systems older than 3 Gyr. SBF color gradients are also detected and analyzed. These SBF gradient data, together with other available data, point to the existence of mass dependent metallicity gradients in galaxies, with the more massive objects showing a non--negligible SBF versus color gradient. The comparison with models suggests that such gradients imply more metal rich stellar populations in the galaxies' inner regions with respect to the outer ones.

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