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LMC中的由外向内的磁盘演化

Outside-in disk evolution in the LMC

C. Gallart, P. B. Stetson, I. Meschin, F. Pont, E. Hardy

摘要:

通过对距离大麦哲伦星云运动中心约2 - 6千秒差距的四个大麦哲伦星云宽视场的色星等图和色函数的分析,我们提出证据表明,虽然最古老的星族在所有视场中都是同时代的,但占主导地位的恒星星族中最年轻的组成部分的年龄随着银河系中心距离的增加而逐渐增加,从目前活跃的恒星形成在2.3度的视场中,在4.0度、5.5度和7.1度的磁场中,分别为1亿年、0.8亿年和1.5亿年。大麦哲伦星系盘中恒星形成的这种由外向内的淬灭与HI柱密度的降低有关(在最外层的两个区域中,HI柱密度<2 x 10^{20} cm^{-2},目前几乎没有恒星形成。文献中的其他工作暗示了不规则星系的恒星星族和M33中类似的行为。这是观测证据,反对在低质量螺旋星系和不规则星系中由内而外的盘状结构。另一种可能是,年龄分布与半径之间的相互作用的结果与时间的演化的恒星形成区的大麦哲伦星云和随后的向外迁移的恒星。

英文摘要:

From the analysis of the color-magnitude diagrams and color functions of four wide LMC fields located from ~2 to 6 kpc from the kinematic center of the LMC we present evidence that, while the oldest population is coeval in all fields, the age of the youngest component of the dominant stellar population gradually increases with galactocentric distance, from currently active star formation in a field at 2.3 deg, to 100 Myr, 0.8 Gyr, and 1.5 Gyr in fields at 4.0 deg, 5.5 deg, and 7.1 deg, respectively. This outside-in quenching of the star formation in the LMC disk is correlated with the decreasing HI column density (which is < 2x 10^{20} cm^{-2} in the two outermost fields with little or no current star formation. Other work in the literature hints at similar behavior in the stellar populations of irregular galaxies, and in M33. This is observational evidence against the inside-out disk formation scenario in low-mass spirals and irregular galaxies. Alternatively, it could be that the age distribution with radius results from interplay between the evolution with time of the star-forming area of the LMC and the subsequent outward migration of the stars.

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