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快旋早型半导体的结构与分子运动学

Structure and Kinematics of Molecular Disks in Fast-Rotator Early-Type Galaxies

Lisa M. Young, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari

摘要:

我们目前的干涉观测解决CO排放的四个富含气体的透镜星系NGC 3032,NGC 4150,NGC 4459,和NGC 4526,我们比较CO的分布和运动学的恒星和电离气体。反旋转记录了至少一种情况下(NGC 3032)气体的外部起源,并且与所有四个星系中的恒星和电离气体子结构的比较提供了对其形成历史的见解。分子气体存在于kpc尺度的圆盘中,其运动学大多是规则的,平均表面密度为100至200 \msunsqpc。这些圆盘与恒星的光度轴和运动轴很好地对齐。在两个更明亮的室女星系团成员NGC 4459和NGC 4526中,分子气体显示出与独立于恒星运动学数据的详细模拟得出的圆速度非常一致。还有两个令人困惑的例子,恒星运动学和气体运动学在亚千秒差距尺度上的分歧。在NGC 3032的内弧秒中,CO的速度明显低于推断的圆周速度,其原因可能与气体的外部起源有关,但尚未得到很好的理解。此外,在NGC 4150核心的非常年轻的恒星群体似乎具有与分子气体相反的旋转方向。

英文摘要:

We present interferometric observations resolving the CO emission in the four gas-rich lenticular galaxies NGC 3032, NGC 4150, NGC 4459, and NGC 4526, and we compare the CO distribution and kinematics to those of the stars and ionized gas. Counterrotation documents an external origin for the gas in at least one case (NGC 3032), and the comparisons to stellar and ionized gas substructures in all four galaxies offer insights into their formation histories. The molecular gas is found in kpc-scale disks with mostly regular kinematics and average surface densities of 100 to 200 \msunsqpc. The disks are well aligned with the stellar photometric and kinematic axes. In the two more luminous Virgo Cluster members NGC 4459 and NGC 4526 the molecular gas shows excellent agreement with circular velocities derived independently from detailed modeling of stellar kinematic data. There are also two puzzling instances of disagreements between stellar kinematics and gas kinematics on sub-kpc scales. In the inner arcseconds of NGC 3032 the CO velocities are significantly lower than the inferred circular velocities, and the reasons may possibly be related to the external origin of the gas but are not well understood. In addition, the very young population of stars in the core of NGC 4150 appears to have the opposite sense of rotation from the molecular gas.

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