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局域星系团中红序星系的NUV-IR色

NUV-IR colours of red sequence galaxies in local clusters

Timothy D. Rawle, Russell J. Smith, John R. Lucey, Michael J. Hudson, Gary A. Wegner

摘要:

介绍了本星系团中红序星系的GALEX近紫外(NUV)和2 MASS J波段测光方法。我们根据严格的发射阈值定义静态样本,去除最近恒星形成的星系。我们分析了NUV-J色-星等关系(CMR),发现内在散射比类似的光学CMR(~0.35而不是0.05等)大一个数量级,与以前的研究一致。将NUV-J颜色与光谱推导的恒星星族参数进行比较,我们发现与金属丰度有很强的相关性(> 5.5 sigma),仅随年龄有轻微的趋势,并且与α/Fe比没有相关性。我们探讨了大的散射的起源,并得出结论,无论是光圈效应,也没有紫外线上翘现象的贡献显着。我们表明,分散可以归因于简单的“结霜”的年轻或低金属丰度亚群。

英文摘要:

We present GALEX near-UV (NUV) and 2MASS J band photometry for red sequence galaxies in local clusters. We define quiescent samples according to a strict emission threshold, removing galaxies with very recent star formation. We analyse the NUV-J colour-magnitude relation (CMR) and find that the intrinsic scatter is an order of magnitude larger than for the analogous optical CMR (~0.35 rather than 0.05 mag), in agreement with previous studies. Comparing the NUV-J colours with spectroscopically-derived stellar population parameters, we find a strong (> 5.5sigma) correlation with metallicity, only a marginal trend with age, and no correlation with the alpha/Fe ratio. We explore the origin of the large scatter and conclude that neither aperture effects nor the UV upturn phenomenon contribute significantly. We show that the scatter could be attributed to simple `frosting' by either a young or a low metallicity subpopulation.

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