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不同环境下的星系恒星形成

Galaxy star formation in different environments

R. E. Gonzalez, N. D. Padilla

摘要:

我们使用一个半解析的星系形成模型来研究星系中恒星形成(SF)活动的大尺度调制特征。为了做到这一点,我们仔细定义的本地和全球估计的星系周围的密度。前者是使用Voronoi曲面细分技术计算的,而后者则分别根据维里和空隙半径,通过到晕和空隙的归一化距离进行参数化。作为局部密度的函数,星系在它们的SF中表现出强烈的调制,这一结果与几位作者的结果一致。当在不同的大尺度环境中取相等的局部密度的子样本时,我们发现相关的全球效应,即红色星系的比例在远离星系团和接近空洞的等局部密度环境中减少。在一般情况下,半解析模拟是在良好的协议与现有的观测结果,并提供了可能性,解开许多负责的过程与环境的星系属性的变化,我们发现,在样本中发现的变化具有相同的本地环境,但不同的距离晕或空洞来自暗物质晕的基本质量函数的变化。还有一个额外的可能的影响来自主机的暗物质晕年龄,表明晕组装也发挥了很小的,但重要的作用($1.14σ$)在塑造星系的属性,特别是在晕/恒星质量年龄可能的空间相关性暗示。

英文摘要:

We use a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation to study signatures of large-scale modulations in the star formation (SF) activity in galaxies. In order to do this we carefully define local and global estimators of the density around galaxies. The former are computed using a voronoi tessellation technique and the latter are parameterised by the normalised distance to haloes and voids, in terms of the virial and void radii, respectively. As a function of local density, galaxies show a strong modulation in their SF, a result that is in agreement with those from several authors. When taking subsamples of equal local density at different large-scale environments, we find relevant global effects whereby the fraction of red galaxies diminishes for galaxies in equal local density environments farther away from clusters and closer to voids. In general, the semianalytic simulation is in good agreement with the available observational results, and offers the possibility to disentangle many of the processes responsible for the variation of galaxy properties with the environment; we find that the changes found in samples of galaxies with equal local environment but different distances to haloes or voids come from the variations in the underlying mass function of dark-matter haloes. There is an additional possible effect coming from the host dark-matter halo ages, indicating that halo assembly also plays a small but significant role ($1.14σ$) in shaping the properties of galaxies, and in particular, hints at a possible spatial correlation in halo/stellar mass ages.

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