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星系形态类型随环境切变的变化

The Variation of Galaxy Morphological Type with the Shear of Environment

Jounghun Lee, Bomee Lee

摘要:

最近的N体模拟表明,星系晕的聚集历史依赖于大尺度环境的密度。这意味着星系的年龄和核球的大小等性质也可能随着周围大尺度结构的变化而变化,这些结构的特征是潮汐切变和密度。利用Tully星表中15,882个高分辨率的邻近星系样本和2 MRS重建的真实空间潮汐场,研究了星系形态类型与星系所处大尺度环境切变的关系.我们首先计算Tully星系所在区域的大尺度无量纲超密度(d)和大尺度椭圆率(e),并根据Tully星系的形态类型对它们进行分类,然后创建d值相似但e值范围不同的子样本。我们计算了每个子样本的平均椭圆率<e>,发现了一个<e>随星系形态类型变化的信号:对于0.5&lt;=d&lt;=1.0的情况,发现椭圆星系优先位于椭圆率低的区域。对于-0.3&lt;=d&lt;=0.1的情况,最新类型的螺线被发现优先位于具有高椭圆度的区域。当-0.3&lt;=d&lt;=0.1时,在3 sigma水平上拒绝了原假设,即椭圆星系和最新类型螺旋星系所在区域的平均椭圆度与所有类型的全球平均椭圆度相同。然而,在高过密/欠密区域没有发现星系切变相关的信号。观察到的趋势表明,星系晕的形成时代可能不仅是晕质量和大尺度密度的函数,而且是大尺度剪切的函数。

英文摘要:

Recent N-body simulations have shown that the assembly history of galactic halos depend on the density of large-scale environment. It implies that the galaxy properties like age and size of bulge may also vary with the surrounding large-scale structures, which are characterized by the tidal shear as well as the density. By using a sample of 15,882 well-resolved nearby galaxies from the Tully Catalog and the real space tidal field reconstructed from the 2Mass Redshift Survey (2MRS), we investigate the dependence of galaxy morphological type on the shear of large-scale environment where the galaxies are embedded. We first calculate the large scale dimensionless overdensities (d) and the large-scale ellipticities (e) of the regions where the Tully galaxies are located and classify the Tully galaxies according to their morphological types and create subsamples selected at similar value of d but span different ranges in e. We calculate the mean ellipticity, <e>, averaged over each subsample and find a signal of variation of <e> with galaxy morphological type: For the case of 0.5<=d<=1.0, the ellipticals are found to be preferentially located in the regions with low ellipticity. For the case of -0.3<=d<=0.1, the latest-type spirals are found to be preferentially located in the regions with high ellipticity. The null hypothesis that the mean ellipticities of the regions where the ellipticals and the latest type spirals are located are same as the global mean ellipticity averaged over all types is rejected at 3 sigma level when -0.3<=d<=0.1. Yet, no signal of galaxy-shear correlation is found in the highly overdense/underdense regions. The observed trend suggests that the formation epochs of galactic halos might be a function not only of halo mass and large-scale density but also of large-scale shear.

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