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蓝色致密星系的恒星动力学。II。ESO 338- IG04合并的进一步迹象

Stellar dynamics of blue compact galaxies. II. Further indications of a merger in ESO 338-IG04

Robert J. Cumming, Kambiz Fathi, Göran Östlin, Thomas Marquart, Isabel Marquez, Josefa Masegosa, Nils Bergvall, Philippe Amram

摘要:

明亮的蓝色致密星系,在z~1处很常见,但现在相对罕见,在发射线中显示出扰动的运动学。作为了解它们的形成和演化的计划的一部分,我们研究了这类天体附近的一些天体的恒星动力学。我们获得了长缝光谱与VLT/FORS 2的光谱区域覆盖的近红外钙三重态。在本文中,我们重点关注著名的发光蓝色致密星系ESO 338-IG 04(Tololo 1924-416)。先前的研究,使用法布里-珀罗干涉法,表明该星系有一个混乱的H-α速度场,表明该星系不是处于动力学平衡,或者H-α没有跟踪由于恒星形成反馈的引力势。沿着视长轴,恒星和电离气体的速度在很大程度上是相互跟随的。因此,混沌的速度场一定是ESO 338-IG 04中年轻恒星星族不处于动力学平衡的标志。最有可能的解释,也是由它的形态支持,是星系经历了合并,这引发了目前的恒星暴增。总结到目前为止,我们的计划的结果,我们注意到,发射线速度场并不总是可靠的示踪剂的恒星运动,并继续评估在中等红移的类似星系的运动学研究的影响。

英文摘要:

Luminous blue compact galaxies, common at z~1 but now relatively rare, show disturbed kinematics in emission lines. As part of a programme to understand their formation and evolution, we have investigated the stellar dynamics of a number of nearby objects in this class. We obtained long-slit spectra with VLT/FORS2 in the spectral region covering the near-infrared calcium triplet. In this paper we focus on the well-known luminous blue compact galaxy ESO 338-IG04 (Tololo 1924-416). A previous investigation, using Fabry-Perot interferometry, showed that this galaxy has a chaotic H-alpha velocity field, indicating that either the galaxy is not in dynamical equilibrium or that H-alpha does not trace the gravitational potential due to feedback from star formation. Along the apparent major axis, the stellar and ionised gas velocities for the most part follow each other. The chaotic velocity field must therefore be a sign that the young stellar population in ESO 338-IG04 is not in dynamical equilibrium. The most likely explanation, which is also supported by its morphology, is that the galaxy has experienced a merger and that this has triggered the current starburst. Summarising the results of our programme so far, we note that emission-line velocity fields are not always reliable tracers of stellar motions, and go on to assess the implications for kinematic studies of similar galaxies at intermediate redshift.

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