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与倾斜无关的星系分类

Inclination-Independent Galaxy Classification

Jeremy Bailin, William E. Harris

摘要:

我们提出了一种新的方法来分类星系的大型调查,如斯隆数字巡天使用倾斜校正浓度,倾斜校正的位置上的颜色-星等图,和视轴比。对倾角的解释收紧了这些参数的分布,并使简单的边界能够描绘出三种不同的星系群:早期型星系,红色,高度集中,圆形;晚期型星系,蓝色,浓度低,以盘为主;和中间型星系,红色,具有中等浓度,并有盘。我们已经验证了我们的方法相比,高质量的成像数据的视觉分类千年星系目录。倾斜校正是至关重要的,以揭开以前未被承认的中级。中间型星系,大致对应于望远镜和早期的螺旋星系,位于红色序列上。因此,红色层序由两种不同的形态类型组成,表明有两种不同的机制过渡到红色层序。我们提出,中间型星系是那些通过扼杀失去冷气的星系,而早期型星系是那些经历了一次主要合并的星系,要么消耗了冷气,要么合并的祖先已经没有冷气(“干合并”方案)。

英文摘要:

We present a new method to classify galaxies from large surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using inclination-corrected concentration, inclination-corrected location on the color-magnitude diagram, and apparent axis ratio. Explicitly accounting for inclination tightens the distribution of each of these parameters and enables simple boundaries to be drawn that delineate three different galaxy populations: Early-type galaxies, which are red, highly concentrated, and round; Late-type galaxies, which are blue, have low concentrations, and are disk dominated; and Intermediate-type galaxies, which are red, have intermediate concentrations, and have disks. We have validated our method by comparing to visual classifications of high-quality imaging data from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue. The inclination correction is crucial to unveiling the previously unrecognized Intermediate class. Intermediate-type galaxies, roughly corresponding to lenticulars and early spirals, lie on the red sequence. The red sequence is therefore composed of two distinct morphological types, suggesting that there are two distinct mechanisms for transiting to the red sequence. We propose that Intermediate-type galaxies are those that have lost their cold gas via strangulation, while Early-type galaxies are those that have experienced a major merger that either consumed their cold gas, or whose merger progenitors were already devoid of cold gas (the ``dry merger'' scenario).

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