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弛豫星系团中恒星形成的质量和红移依赖性

Mass and Redshift Dependence of Star Formation in Relaxed Galaxy Clusters

Rose A. Finn, Michael L. Balogh, Dennis Zaritsky, Christopher J. Miller, Robert C. Nichol

摘要:

本文研究了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)C4星系团星表中308个低红移星系团的动态弛豫星系团的恒星形成特性与星系团质量的关系。在比较不同时期的星系团之前,重要的是要确定星系团恒星形成特性是否与质量相关,在这里我们使用星系团速度色散作为衡量星系团质量的指标。我们发现,总恒星质量,恒星形成星系的数量,和总恒星形成率的规模与成员星系的数量呈线性关系,没有剩余的依赖于集群速度色散。随着质量依赖的集群恒星形成率的建立,我们比较了SDSS集群与样本的z = 0.75集群从文献中发现,平均总的H-α光度的高红移集群是10倍以上的低红移集群。这可以用单个星系团星系的H-α光度从z = 0.75开始下降10倍来解释。这种演化的幅度与场星系在类似的红移间隔上的演化相当,因此星团环境对恒星形成星系演化的影响最多是适度的。我们的研究结果表明,驱动星系团恒星形成速率演化的物理机制与星系团质量无关,至少对于速度色散大于450 km/s的星系团是这样,并且在相当长的时间尺度上运行,使得单个星系的恒星形成速率在70亿年内下降了一个数量级。(节录)

英文摘要:

We investigate the star-formation properties of dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters as a function of cluster mass for 308 low-redshift clusters drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) C4 cluster catalog. It is important to establish if cluster star-formation properties have a mass dependence before comparing clusters at different epochs, and here we use cluster velocity dispersion as a measure of cluster mass. We find that the total stellar mass, the number of star-forming galaxies, and total star-formation rate scale linearly with the number of member galaxies, with no residual dependence on cluster velocity dispersion. With the mass-dependence of cluster star-formation rates established, we compare the SDSS clusters with a sample of z = 0.75 clusters from the literature and find that on average the total H-alpha luminosity of the high-redshift clusters is 10 times greater than that of the low-redshift clusters. This can be explained by a decline in the H-alpha luminosities of individual cluster galaxies by a factor of up to 10 since z = 0.75. The magnitude of this evolution is comparable to that of field galaxies over a similar redshift interval, and thus the effect of the cluster environment on the evolution of star-forming galaxies is at most modest. Our results suggest that the physical mechanism driving the evolution of cluster star-formation rates is independent of cluster mass, at least for clusters with velocity dispersion greater than 450 km/s, and operates over a fairly long timescale such that the star-formation rates of individual galaxies decline by an order of magnitude over ~7 billion years. (Abridged)

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