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极度贫金属的恒星形成星系。新的检测和一般形态学和光度学特性

Extremely metal-poor star-forming galaxies. New detections and general morphological and photometric properties

P. Papaderos, N. G. Guseva, Y. I. Izotov, K. J. Fricke

摘要:

本文利用3.6米ESO望远镜对SDSS DR 4和6dFGRS中发现的7个恒星形成矮星系的8个HII区进行了长缝光谱研究。此外,我们还利用SDSS成像数据研究了样本星系的光度结构。根据3.6米望远镜的光谱,我们确定这些系统的氧丰度为7.3<12+log(O/H)<7.6,使它们成为迄今发现的最贫金属的SF星系之一。我们的光度分析显示,在所有样本星系中,都有一个中等蓝色的恒星宿主星系。在这里研究的所有星系和以前研究的所有极端缺乏金属的SF星系中检测到恒星宿主意味着它们不太可能形成第一代恒星。关于其宿主星系的结构特性,我们证明了这些系统是无法区分的蓝色紧凑矮(BCD)星系。然而,与大多数(>90%)以红色椭圆形宿主星系为特征的BCD不同,极端贫金属的SF矮星(以下称为XBCD)显示出中等蓝色和不规则的宿主星系。这与年轻的演化状态相一致,在标准恒星形成历史的框架中,这意味着几个XBCD在过去的2 Gyr中形成了大部分恒星质量。一个大部分的XBCD揭示了彗星的形态,由于存在激烈的SF活动在一个边缘的细长的主机星系与逐渐减少的表面亮度向其对跖端。

英文摘要:

(abridged) We present long-slit spectroscopy with the 3.6m ESO telescope of eight HII regions in seven star-forming (SF) dwarf galaxies, discovered in SDSS DR4 and 6dFGRS. In addition, we use SDSS imaging data to study the photometric structure of the sample galaxies. From the 3.6m telescope spectra, we determine the oxygen abundance of these systems to be 7.3<12+log(O/H)<7.6, placing them among the most metal-poor SF galaxies ever discovered. Our photometric analysis reveals a moderately blue, stellar host galaxy in all sample galaxies. The detection of a stellar host in all galaxies studied here and all previously studied extremely metal-deficient SF galaxies implies that they are unlikely to be forming their first generation of stars. With regard to the structural properties of their host galaxy, we demonstrate that these systems are indistinguishable from blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. However, in contrast to the majority (>90%) of BCDs that are characterised by red elliptical host galaxies, extremely metal-poor SF dwarfs (hereafter XBCDs) reveal moderately blue and irregular hosts. This is consistent with a young evolutionary status and in the framework of standard star formation histories implies that several XBCDs formed most of their stellar mass in the past 2 Gyr. A large fraction of XBCDs reveal a cometary morphology due to the presence of intense SF activity at one edge of an elongated host galaxy with a gradually decreasing surface brightness towards its antipodal end.

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