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红色镓中24微米过量的来源

The Origin of the 24-micron Excess in Red Galaxies

Kate Brand, John Moustakas, Lee Armus, Roberto J. Assef, Michael J. I. Brown, Richard R. Cool, Vandana Desai, Arjun Dey, Emeric Le Floc'h, Buell T. Jannuzi, Chr… 展开作者

Kate Brand, John Moustakas, Lee Armus, Roberto J. Assef, Michael J. I. Brown, Richard R. Cool, Vandana Desai, Arjun Dey, Emeric Le Floc'h, Buell T. Jannuzi, Christopher S. Kochanek, Jason Melbourne, Casey J. Papovich, B. T. Soifer

摘要:

斯皮策太空望远镜的观测揭示了一个红序星系群,其24微米的发射量比预期的老恒星星族要大得多。我们从NOAO深宽视场巡天Bootes场的AGN和星系演化巡天(AGES)中识别出900个0.15<z<0.3的红星系。使用Spitzer/MIPS,我们对89个(~10%)具有24微米红外过量(f24>0.3 mJy)的样品进行了分类。我们确定的AGN和恒星形成活动的流行在所有的AGES星系使用光学线诊断和中红外颜色的颜色标准。使用IRAC浅巡天的IRAC色-色图,我们发现64%的24微米过量红星系可能在8微米IRAC波段具有强烈的PAH发射特征。这一比例明显大于5%的f24<0.3 mJy的红星系,这些红星系估计有很强的PAH发射,这表明红外发射主要是由于恒星形成过程。只有15%的24微米的多余红色星系具有恒星形成的光学线诊断特征(64%被归类为活动星系核,21%无法归类)。光学和红外结果之间的差异表明,活动星系核和恒星形成活动同时发生在许多24微米的过量红星系中。这些结果应该作为一个警告的研究,专门使用光学线诊断,以确定在红外和其他波段的主要发射机制。我们发现,约40%的24微米的多余的红星系的边缘上的螺旋星系具有高的光学折射率。剩下的来源可能是红色星系,其24微米的辐射来自于被遮蔽的活动星系核和恒星形成活动的结合。

英文摘要:

Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed a population of red-sequence galaxies with a significant excess in their 24-micron emission compared to what is expected from an old stellar population. We identify 900 red galaxies with 0.15<z<0.3 from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) selected from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Bootes field. Using Spitzer/MIPS, we classify 89 (~10%) with 24-micron infrared excess (f24>0.3 mJy). We determine the prevalence of AGN and star-formation activity in all the AGES galaxies using optical line diagnostics and mid-IR color-color criteria. Using the IRAC color-color diagram from the IRAC Shallow Survey, we find that 64% of the 24-micron excess red galaxies are likely to have strong PAH emission features in the 8-micron IRAC band. This fraction is significantly larger than the 5% of red galaxies with f24<0.3 mJy that are estimated to have strong PAH emission, suggesting that the infrared emission is largely due to star-formation processes. Only 15% of the 24-micron excess red galaxies have optical line diagnostics characteristic of star-formation (64% are classified as AGN and 21% are unclassifiable). The difference between the optical and infrared results suggest that both AGN and star-formation activity is occurring simultaneously in many of the 24-micron excess red galaxies. These results should serve as a warning to studies that exclusively use optical line diagnostics to determine the dominant emission mechanism in the infrared and other bands. We find that ~40% of the 24-micron excess red galaxies are edge-on spiral galaxies with high optical extinctions. The remaining sources are likely to be red galaxies whose 24-micron emission comes from a combination of obscured AGN and star-formation activity.

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