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附近的ACS银河调查金库I。M81外盘的恒星形成历史

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury I. The Star Formation History of the M81 Outer Disk

Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Anil C. Seth, Daniel Weisz, Andrew Dolphin, Evan Skillman, Jason Harris, Jon Holtzman, Leo Girardi, Roelof S. de Jo… 展开作者

Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Anil C. Seth, Daniel Weisz, Andrew Dolphin, Evan Skillman, Jason Harris, Jon Holtzman, Leo Girardi, Roelof S. de Jong, Knut Olsen, Andrew Cole, Carme Gallart, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Sebastian L. Hidalgo, Mario Mateo, Keith Rosema, Peter B. Stetson, Thomas Quinn

摘要:

ACS邻近星系巡天金库(英语:ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury,缩写:ANGST)是一个大型的哈勃太空望远镜巡天高级照相机(英语:Advanced Camera for Survey,缩写:ACS)金库计划,目的是获得体积有限的星系样本的恒星光度测量结果。作为该计划的一部分,我们已经获得了大螺旋星系M81外盘的深ACS成像。这个区域包含一个旋臂的外围,以及一个没有当前恒星形成的区域。我们的成像结果在颜色星等图(CMD)达到F814 W = 28.8和F606 W = 29.5,一个比红色团暗的星等。通过详细的建模的完整CMD,我们量化的年龄和金属丰度分布的恒星星族包含在字段。磁场中的平均金属丰度为-1<[M/H]<0,只有一小部分恒星的年龄<~1 Gyr。结果表明,在这个外盘场中的大多数恒星都是由z~1形成的,并且在这个半径处的臂结构的寿命>~ 1亿年。我们讨论了测量的高红移盘星系的调查和其他附近星系的深恒星测光的背景下,M81磁盘的演变。这些都表明,大规模的螺旋盘主要是由z~1形成的,它们经历了快速的金属富集。

英文摘要:

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) is a large Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) treasury program to obtain resolved stellar photometry for a volume-limited sample of galaxies out to 4 Mpc. As part of this program, we have obtained deep ACS imaging of a field in the outer disk of the large spiral galaxy M81. The field contains the outskirts of a spiral arm as well as an area containing no current star formation. Our imaging results in a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) reaching to F814W = 28.8 and F606W = 29.5, one magnitude fainter than the red clump. Through detailed modeling of the full CMD, we quantify the age and metallicity distribution of the stellar populations contained in the field. The mean metallicity in the field is -1<[M/H]<0 and only a small fraction of stars have ages <~1 Gyr. The results show that most of the stars in this outer disk field were formed by z~1 and that the arm structure at this radius has a lifetime of >~100 Myr. We discuss the measured evolution of the M81 disk in the context of surveys of high-redshift disk galaxies and deep stellar photometry of other nearby galaxies. All of these indicate that massive spiral disks are mostly formed by z~1 and that they have experienced rapid metal enrichment.

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