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膨胀主导半导体中的盘生长:分子气体和形态演化

Disk Growth in Bulge-Dominated Galaxies: Molecular Gas and Morphological Evolution

Lisa Young, Martin Bureau, Alison Crocker, Francoise Combes

摘要:

相当数量的形态规则的早期型(椭圆形和透镜状)星系含有分子气体,气体的数量可能足以解释最近估计的恒星形成活动的水平。这种气体也可以作为早期星系演化过程的示踪剂。例如,在大多数情况下,气体形成的动态冷恒星盘的大小在数百pc到超过1 kpc的范围内,尽管目前通常只有总恒星质量的1%可用于形成年轻恒星。这些气体的数量仍然很小,但分子运动学表明,一些气体可能来自恒星内部的质量损失,而另一些则是从外部获得的。未来的研究将有助于量化分子气体(耗散过程)在早期星系形成及其沿红色序列演化中的作用。

英文摘要:

Substantial numbers of morphologically regular early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies contain molecular gas, and the quantities of gas are probably sufficient to explain recent estimates of the current level of star formation activity. This gas can also be used as a tracer of the processes that drive the evolution of early-type galaxies. For example, in most cases the gas is forming dynamically cold stellar disks with sizes in the range of hundreds of pc to more than one kpc, although there is typically only 1% of the total stellar mass currently available to form young stars. The numbers are still small, but the molecular kinematics indicate that some of the gas probably originated from internal stellar mass loss while some was acquired from outside. Future studies will help to quantify the role of molecular gas (dissipational processes) in the formation of early-type galaxies and their evolution along the red sequence.

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