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近星系外晕和晕的分辨

Resolving the Outer Disks and Halos of Nearby Galaxies

Anil Seth, Roelof de Jong, David Radburn-Smith, Henry Ferguson

摘要:

在分层合并的情况下,星系的外部是星系早期历史的化石记录。因此,对星系外盘和晕的观测提供了一种研究单个星系历史和检验形成理论的工具。在当地,人们已经做出了令人印象深刻的努力来了解银河系,仙女座和M33的光环。然而,由于晕形成的随机性,要更好地理解这一过程,需要大量具有已知晕特性的星系样本。GHOSTS项目(PI:R。de Jong)的目标是利用哈勃太空望远镜来描述附近14个(D=4-14 Mpc)螺旋星系的晕和外部部分。对这些星系外部的单个恒星进行探测,使我们能够研究星系的形态特征,并确定恒星的金属丰度和年龄。

英文摘要:

In a hierarchical merging scenario, the outer parts of a galaxy are a fossil record of the galaxy's early history. Observations of the outer disks and halos of galaxies thus provide a tool to study individual galaxy histories and test formation theories. Locally, an impressive effort has been made to understand the halo of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and M33. However, due to the stochastic nature of halo formation, a better understanding of this process requires a large sample of galaxies with known halo properties. The GHOSTS project (PI: R. de Jong) aims to characterize the halos and outer portions of 14 nearby (D=4-14 Mpc) spiral galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope. Detection of individual stars in the outer parts of these galaxies enables us to study both the morphological properties of the galaxies, and determine the stars' metallicity and age.

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