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场早型星系中的恒星星族、中性氢和电离气体

Stellar populations, neutral hydrogen and ionised gas in field early-type galaxies

Paolo Serra, Scott C. Trager, Tom A. Oosterloo, Raffaella Morganti

摘要:

我们提出了一个研究的恒星星族的39个本地,现场早型星系的HI属性是已知的干涉数据的样本。我们的目的是了解恒星的年龄和化学成分是否取决于星系的HI含量。作为我们分析的副产品,我们还研究了它们的电离气体含量以及它与中性氢气的关系。利用光学长缝光谱研究了恒星星族和电离气体。我们确定恒星的年龄,金属丰度和α-铁比通过分析一组Lick/IDS线强度指数测量的光谱建模后,减去电离气体排放。我们没有发现恒星星族参数随M(HI)的变化趋势。然而,我们确实发现,在恒星速度色散低于230公里/秒,2/3的星系与小于1亿太阳质量的HI集中再生,而没有HI丰富的系统。此外,没有一个质量更大的(速度色散>230公里/秒)物体的中心再生独立于其HI质量。关于电离气体,我们在60%的样品中检测到发射。这通常是扩展的,并且总是在任何半径处由LINER样的发射线比来表征。我们发现,一个大的HI质量是必要的(但不是足够的)星系主机明亮的电离气体排放。一个合理的解释,我们的研究结果是,丰富的气体合并在E/S 0的形成中发挥了重要作用,特别是在较低的质量。在这幅图中,HI贫乏,中心再生的物体可以在气体角动量去除(因此流入)有效的合并中形成;没有显着年龄梯度(但可能均匀年轻)的HI丰富的星系可以在高角动量气体的相互作用中形成。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the stellar populations of a sample of 39 local, field early-type galaxies whose HI properties are known from interferometric data. Our aim is to understand whether stellar age and chemical composition depend on the HI content of galaxies. As a by-product of our analysis, we also study their ionised gas content and how it relates to the neutral hydrogen gas. Stellar populations and ionised gas are studied from optical long-slit spectra. We determine stellar age, metallicity and alpha-to-iron ratio by analysing a set of Lick/IDS line-strength indices measured from the spectra after modelling and subtracting the ionised-gas emission. We do not find any trend in the stellar populations parameters with M(HI). However, we do find that, at stellar velocity dispersion below 230 km/s, 2/3 of the galaxies with less than 100 million solar masses of HI are centrally rejuvenated, while none of the HI-richer systems are. Furthermore, none of the more massive (velocity-dispersion>230 km/s) objects are centrally rejuvenated independently on their HI mass. Concerning the ionised gas, we detect emission in 60% of the sample. This is generally extended and always carachterised by LINER-like emission-line ratios at any radius. We find that a large HI mass is necessary (but not sufficient) for a galaxy to host bright ionised-gas emission. A plausible interpretation of our results is that gas-rich mergers play a significant role in E/S0 formation, especially at lower mass. Within this picture, HI-poor, centrally-rejuvenated objects could form in mergers where gas angular-momentum removal (and therefore inflow) is efficient; HI-rich galaxies with no significant age gradients (but possibly uniformly young) could be formed in interactions characterised by high-angular momentum gas.

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