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M31盘的性质和化学演化:与Milky Way的比较

Properties and Chemical Evolution of the M31 Disk: Comparison with the Milky Way

J. L. Hou, J. Yin, S. Boissier, N. Prantzos, R. X. Chang, L. Chen

摘要:

采用银河系盘的化学演化模型,研究了M31星系盘的恒星形成和化学演化历史。我们主要研究了M31盘的整体性质。模型被标度到有关的盘参数,主要是盘标度长度和M31的盘重子总质量,我们采用的是$r_d$ = 5.5kpc和$M_{tot} = 7\times 10^{10}$ \ms。结果表明,当应用经典的Kennicutt恒星形成定律时,得到的气体面密度和恒星形成率(SFR)径向分布与M31盘的观测结果有很大差异。然后,我们采用了修改后的SFR,我们对银河系,即SFR是径向依赖。详细的计算表明,通过调整恒星形成效率,可以得到合理的气体和丰度分布,但总盘SFR比观测估计值高2-3倍。而且预测的SFR径向轮廓也比GALEX在外部观察到的要高得多。可能的原因是M31盘与其他因素相互作用,严重改变了恒星形成历史,或者由于不适当的消光校正而低估了观测到的SFR。

英文摘要:

By adopting the chemical evolution model of the Milky Way disk, we have studied the star formation and chemical evolution history for M31 galaxy disk. We mainly concentrated on the global properties of the M31 disk. The model has been scaled to the related disk parameters, mainly the disk scale length and total disk baryon mass of M31, which we have adopted to be $r_d$=5.5kpc and $M_{tot} = 7\times 10^{10}$ \ms. It is found that, when the classical Kennicutt star formation law was applied, the obtained radial profiles of gas surface density and star formation rate (SFR) have great difference from the observed results in M31 disk. Then we have adopted modified SFR as we did for the Milky Way galaxy, that is the SFR is radial dependent. Detailed calculations show that by adjusting the star formation efficiency, it is possible to get reasonable gas and abundance profiles, but the total disk SFR is a factor of 2-3 higher than that estimated from observations. And also the predicted SFR radial profile is also much higher than what GALEX observed in the outer part. Possible reasons could be that the M31 disk has been interacted by other factors which seriously altered the star formation history, or the observed SFR is underestimated due to inappropriate extinction correction.

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