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横跨NGC4244截断银盘的恒星星族

Stellar populations across the NGC4244 truncated galactic disk

Roelof S. de Jong, A. C. Seth, D. J. Radburn-Smith, E. F. Bell, T. M. Brown, J. S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J. J. Dalcanton, H. C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holf… 展开作者

Roelof S. de Jong, A. C. Seth, D. J. Radburn-Smith, E. F. Bell, T. M. Brown, J. S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J. J. Dalcanton, H. C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B. W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D. B. Zucker

摘要:

我们使用HST/ACS来研究附近的,几乎是边缘上的星系NGC 4244在其外盘表面密度突变的解决恒星星族。恒星测光使我们能够研究不同恒星星族的分布,并达到很低的等效表面亮度。我们发现,断裂发生在相同的半径为年轻,中等年龄,和老恒星。突破点以外的恒星密度急剧下降,每5千秒差距至少下降600倍。破裂发生在相同的半径上,与盘上方的高度无关,但在中平面最尖锐,在大高度处几乎消失。这些结果表明,截断不太可能是由恒星形成的阈值单独引起的:阈值将不得不保持相同的径向位置,从小于1亿年到10 Gyr前,尽管潜在的干扰,如因内部过程而导致的气体的再分布和下沉。截断形成的动力学解释更可能是由于杆或密度波的角动量重新分配,或由暗物质子晕的轰击引起的恒星加热和剥离。后一种解释也与我们在星系周围看到的小弥散分量在数量上一致。

英文摘要:

We use HST/ACS to study the resolved stellar populations of the nearby, nearly edge-on galaxy NGC4244 across its outer disk surface density break. The stellar photometry allows us to study the distribution of different stellar populations and reach very low equivalent surface brightnesses. We find that the break occurs at the same radius for young, intermediate age, and old stars. The stellar density beyond the break drops sharply by a factor of at least 600 in 5 kpc. The break occurs at the same radius independent of height above the disk, but is sharpest in the midplane and nearly disappears at large heights. These results make it unlikely that truncations are caused by a star formation threshold alone: the threshold would have to keep the same radial position from less than 100 Myr to 10 Gyr ago, in spite of potential disturbances such as infall and redistribution of gas by internal processes. A dynamical interpretation of truncation formation is more likely such as due to angular momentum redistribution by bars or density waves, or heating and stripping of stars caused by the bombardment of dark matter sub-halos. The latter explanation is also in quantitative agreement with the small diffuse component we see around the galaxy.

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