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z~2尘埃遮蔽星系的HST形貌I:幂律源

HST Morphologies of z~2 Dust Obscured Galaxies I: Power-law Sources

R. S. Bussmann, Arjun Dey, J. Lotz, L. Armus, K. Brand, M. J. I. Brown, V. Desai, P. Eisenhardt, J. Higdon, S. Higdon, B. T. Jannuzi, E. Le Floc'h, J. Melbourne… 展开作者

R. S. Bussmann, Arjun Dey, J. Lotz, L. Armus, K. Brand, M. J. I. Brown, V. Desai, P. Eisenhardt, J. Higdon, S. Higdon, B. T. Jannuzi, E. Le Floc'h, J. Melbourne, B. T. Soifer, D. Weedman

摘要:

利用哈勃空间望远镜上的ACS、WFPC 2和NICMOS相机,对NOAO深宽视场巡天Bootes场的31个24 μ m亮z~2尘埃遮蔽星系(DOG)进行了高空间分辨率的光学和近红外成像。虽然这一子集的DOG中红外光谱能量分布占主导地位的幂律分量暗示活动星系核,所有的星系,但其中一个空间扩展,而不是由一个未解决的组件在静止帧紫外或光学波长占主导地位。观测到的扩展成分的V-H和I-H色比正常的恒星形成星系红0.2-3个星等。除了1颗外,所有的DOG都有大于0.3的轴比,这使得DOG不太可能是由一个边缘上的恒星形成盘组成的。我们模拟的空间扩展组件的表面亮度分布的DOG与Sersic的配置文件,并找到有效半径为1-6千秒差距。这个DOG样本比大多数亚毫米星系(SMG)都要小,但比静止的高红移星系要大。DOG形态的非参数测量(基尼系数和M20)表明,这些星系比当地ULIRGs更动态放松。利用静止坐标系光学光度法估算了DOG的恒星质量下限,发现其范围为~10^(9-11)M太阳。如果主要合并的祖先的狗,那么这些观察表明,狗可能代表了合并后的进化阶段。

英文摘要:

We present high spatial resolution optical and near-infrared imaging obtained using the ACS, WFPC2 and NICMOS cameras aboard the Hubble Space Telescope of 31 24um--bright z~2 Dust Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) identified in the Bootes Field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Although this subset of DOGs have mid-IR spectral energy distributions dominated by a power-law component suggestive of an AGN, all but one of the galaxies are spatially extended and not dominated by an unresolved component at rest-frame UV or optical wavelengths. The observed V-H and I-H colors of the extended components are 0.2-3 magnitudes redder than normal star-forming galaxies. All but 1 have axial ratios >0.3, making it unlikely that DOGs are composed of an edge-on star-forming disk. We model the spatially extended component of the surface brightness distributions of the DOGs with a Sersic profile and find effective radii of 1-6 kpc. This sample of DOGs is smaller than most sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs), but larger than quiescent high-redshift galaxies. Non-parametric measures (Gini and M20) of DOG morphologies suggest that these galaxies are more dynamically relaxed than local ULIRGs. We estimate lower limits to the stellar masses of DOGs based on the rest-frame optical photometry and find that these range from ~10^(9-11) M_sun. If major mergers are the progenitors of DOGs, then these observations suggest that DOGs may represent a post-merger evolutionary stage.

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