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早型星系的恒星星族历史。III。后发座星系团

The stellar population histories of early-type galaxies. III. The Coma Cluster

S. C. Trager, S. M. Faber, Alan Dressler

摘要:

利用凯克II望远镜的低分辨率成像光谱仪获得后发座星系团中12个早型星系的恒星星族参数。我们的数据使我们能够详细检查零点和分散在他们的恒星星族属性。我们的ETG具有平均5-8 Gyr的SSP等效年龄,其中最古老的星系年龄约为10 Gyr。该平均年龄与现场ETG的平均年龄相同。我们的ETG在速度分散方面跨越了很大的范围,但与从单一年龄的人群中提取的一致。具体来说,12个ETG中的10个在其具有相同年龄的形式误差内是一致的,5.2+/-0.2 Gyr,超过质量的750倍。因此,我们没有发现证据缩小的恒星星族的ETG在后发座星系团的核心。我们认为后发座星系团的ETG可能在高红移时形成了大部分的质量,但在z~0.1-0.3时发生了小而可检测的恒星形成事件。先前从本地ETG的恒星星族中检测到的“缩小”可能并不反映在RSG的回顾研究中看到的相同的缩小,因为本地ETG的年轻年龄仅代表其总质量的一小部分。(节略)

英文摘要:

We present stellar population parameters of twelve early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Coma Cluster based on spectra obtained using the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the Keck II Telescope. Our data allow us to examine in detail the zero-point and scatter in their stellar population properties. Our ETGs have SSP-equivalent ages of on average 5-8 Gyr with the models used here, with the oldest galaxies having ages of ~10 Gyr old. This average age is identical to the mean age of field ETGs. Our ETGs span a large range in velocity dispersion but are consistent with being drawn from a population with a single age. Specifically, ten of the twelve ETGs are consistent within their formal errors of having the same age, 5.2+/-0.2 Gyr, over a factor of more than 750 in mass. We therefore find no evidence for downsizing of the stellar populations of ETGs in the core of the Coma Cluster. We suggest that Coma Cluster ETGs may have formed the majority of their mass at high redshifts but suffered small but detectable star formation events at z~0.1-0.3. Previous detections of 'downsizing' from stellar populations of local ETGs may not reflect the same downsizing seen in lookback studies of RSGs, as the young ages of the local ETGs represent only a small fraction of their total masses. (abridged)

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