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河外星系对初始质量函数的约束

Extragalactic Constraints on the Initial Mass Function

Stephen M. Wilkins, Andrew M. Hopkins, Neil Trentham, Rita Tojeiro

摘要:

局部恒星质量密度被观察到显着低于从整合宇宙恒星形成历史(SFH),假设所有的恒星形成与萨尔彼得初始质量函数(IMF)获得的值。即使是其他受欢迎的IMF,更成功地协调所观察到的$z=0$恒星质量密度与SFH推断,有困难再现恒星质量密度在较高的红移观察。在这项研究中,我们调查到何种程度上这种差异可以缓解任何普遍的幂律IMF。我们发现,一个高质量斜率(2.15)比萨尔彼得斜率(2.35)浅的IMF调和所观察到的恒星质量密度与宇宙恒星形成历史,但只有在低红移。在更高的红移$z>0.5$,我们发现,观测到的恒星质量密度系统地低于预测的宇宙恒星形成的历史,任何普遍的幂律IMF。

英文摘要:

The local stellar mass density is observed to be significantly lower than the value obtained from integrating the cosmic star formation history (SFH), assuming that all the stars formed with a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF). Even other favoured IMFs, more successful in reconciling the observed $z=0$ stellar mass density with that inferred from the SFH, have difficulties in reproducing the stellar mass density observed at higher redshift. In this study we investigate to what extent this discrepancy can be alleviated for any universal power-law IMF. We find that an IMF with a high-mass slope shallower (2.15) than the Salpeter slope (2.35) reconciles the observed stellar mass density with the cosmic star formation history, but only at low redshifts. At higher redshifts $z>0.5$ we find that observed stellar mass densities are systematically lower than predicted from the cosmic star formation history, for any universal power-law IMF.

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