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根据透镜+动力学和光度测量估算早型星系中的恒星质量

Stellar mass estimates in early-type galaxies from lensing+dynamical and photometric measurements

C. Grillo, R. Gobat, P. Rosati, M. Lombardi

摘要:

在本文中,我们比较了两种不同的诊断估计恒星质量的早期型星系,我们建立了自己的可靠性水平。特别是,我们认为,从斯隆透镜ACS(SLACS)调查(z = 0.06-0.33)中选择的15个场椭圆星系的研究样本。我们在这里检查恒星质量值之间的相关性,封闭内的爱因斯坦半径的每个镜头,透镜和恒星动力学相结合的分析和基于多波长光度光谱模板拟合的基础上。透镜+动力学恒星质量是从已发表的SLACS巡天结果中获得的,假设一个两分量密度分布模型和一个来自透镜星系的质光比的基本平面的先验。光度恒星质量的测量是通过拟合观测到的光谱能量分布的星系(从SDSS多波段光度超过354-913 nm)与复合恒星星族模板,假设光跟踪恒星质量。这两种方法是完全独立的。它们依赖于几个不同的假设,因此,原则上,两者都可能存在重大偏差。基于我们的大质量星系的样本,我们发现透镜+动力学和光度质量估计之间的一致性。我们获得了0.94的皮尔逊线性相关系数和1.1+/-0.1的前者和后者的质量测量之间的比值的中值。这表明,这两种方法可以分别产生可靠的早期型星系的恒星质量,并确认测光质量估计是准确的,只要光学/近红外静止框架测光是可用的。

英文摘要:

In this paper we compare two different diagnostics for estimating stellar masses in early-type galaxies and we establish their level of reliability. In particular, we consider the well-studied sample of 15 field elliptical galaxies selected from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey (z = 0.06-0.33). We examine here the correlation between the stellar mass values, enclosed inside the Einstein radius of each lens, based on analyses of lensing and stellar dynamics combined and based on multiwavelength photometry spectral template fitting. The lensing+dynamics stellar mass is obtained from the published SLACS Survey results, assuming a two-component density distribution model and a prior from the fundamental plane on the mass-to-light ratio for the lens galaxies. The photometric stellar mass is measured by fitting the observed spectral energy distribution of the galaxies (from the SDSS multi-band photometry over 354-913 nm) with composite stellar population templates, under the assumption that light traces stellar mass. The two methods are completely independent. They rely on several different assumptions, and so, in principle, both can have significant biases. Based on our sample of massive galaxies, we find consistency between the lensing+dynamics and the photometric mass estimates. We obtain a Pearson linear correlation coefficient of 0.94 and a median value of the ratio between the former and the latter mass measurements of 1.1+/-0.1. This suggests that both methods can separately yield reliable stellar masses of early-type galaxies, and confirms that photometric mass estimates are accurate, as long as optical/near-IR rest frame photometry is available.

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