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矮星系星暴在本体积中的统计

Dwarf Galaxy Starburst Statistics in the Local Volume

Janice C. Lee, Robert C. Kennicutt, José G. Funes S. J., Shoko Sakai, Sanae Akiyama

摘要:

星系演化中一个尚未解决的问题是,低质量系统的恒星形成历史是否优先受恒星爆发或更安静和连续的模式所支配。在这里,我们量化的流行全球性恒星爆发在矮星系在本时代,并推断其特征的持续时间和振幅。该分析基于11 Mpc H-alpha UV星系巡天(11 HUGS)的H-alpha分量,该巡天为11 Mpc内约300个恒星形成星系的近似体积有限的样本提供H-alpha和GALEX UV成像。我们首先检查样本的完整性,然后直接计算爆发矮星的数量,并计算集中在此类系统中的恒星形成比例。我们的结果与一幅图片相一致,即目前正在经历大规模全球爆发的矮星只是低质量星系冰山的6%。此外,爆发只占整个矮星系中恒星形成总数的四分之一,因此今天低质量系统中的大多数恒星都不是以这种模式形成的。没有H-α辐射的螺旋星系和不规则星系是罕见的,这表明恒星形成的完全停止通常不会发生在这样的星系中,并且不是爆发间状态的特征,至少对于M(B)<-15的更明亮的系统来说是如此。在最简单的假设下,所有矮不规则星都有一个共同的恒星形成历史,并以相等的概率经历类似的爆发周期,这里提出的星爆统计直接约束占空比和平均爆发振幅。在这种假设中的Understanding在以前的工作的背景下进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

An unresolved question in galaxy evolution is whether the star formation histories of low mass systems are preferentially dominated by starbursts or modes that are more quiescent and continuous. Here, we quantify the prevalence of global starbursts in dwarf galaxies at the present epoch, and infer their characteristic durations and amplitudes. The analysis is based on the H-alpha component of the 11 Mpc H-alpha UV Galaxy Survey (11HUGS), which is providing H-alpha and GALEX UV imaging for an approximately volume-limited sample of ~300 star-forming galaxies within 11 Mpc. We first examine the completeness properties of the sample, and then directly tally the number of bursting dwarfs and compute the fraction of star formation that is concentrated in such systems. Our results are consistent with a picture where dwarfs that are currently experiencing massive global bursts are just the ~6% tip of a low-mass galaxy iceberg. Moreover, bursts are only responsible for about a quarter of the total star formation in the overall dwarf population, so the majority of stars in low-mass systems are not formed in this mode today. Spirals and irregulars devoid of H-alpha emission are rare, indicating that the complete cessation of star formation generally does not occur in such galaxies and is not characteristic of the inter-burst state, at least for the more luminous systems with M(B)<-15. The starburst statistics presented here directly constrain the duty cycle and the average burst amplitude under the simplest assumptions where all dwarf irregulars share a common star formation history and undergo similar bursts cycles with equal probability. Uncertainties in such assumptions are discussed in the context of previous work.

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