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Abell 851与星爆在星系团演化中的作用

Abell 851 and the Role of Starbursts in Cluster Galaxy Evolution

A. Oemler, A. Dressler, D. Kelson, J. Rigby, B. M. Poggianti, J. Fritz, G. Morrison, I. Smail

摘要:

我们利用对非常丰富的z ~ 0.4星系团A851的广泛的新观测来研究中红移星系团中星暴星系的性质和起源。新的HST观测,斯皮策测光和地面光谱覆盖了大部分的集群区域约10弧分,对应于集群中心的径向距离约为1.6 Mpc。这种空间覆盖范围使我们能够确认存在的形态密度关系在这个集群,并确定几个大的,大概是下降,子系统。我们证实了我们以前的结论,即A851中的恒星形成星系中有很大一部分最近经历了恒星爆发。我们认为,恒星爆发主要局限于两种类型的网站:落集团和集群中心。在星系团的中心,似乎正在下沉的星系正在经历重大的合并,导致恒星爆发,其光学发射线完全埋在尘埃之下。这个过程的后果似乎是没有恒星形成的原S 0星系。相比之下,主要的合并似乎并不是大多数落入星系群中的恒星爆发的原因,并且很少有这些事件导致星系转变为S 0。最近的一些理论工作为这两个不同的过程提供了可能的解释,但尚不清楚它们是否能以非常高的效率运行,以解释观察到的非常大的恒星暴率。

英文摘要:

We use extensive new observations of the very rich z ~ 0.4 cluster of galaxies A851 to examine the nature and origin of starburst galaxies in intermediate-redshift clusters. New HST observations, Spitzer photometry and ground-based spectroscopy cover most of a region of the cluster about 10 arcmin across, corresponding to a clustercentric radial distance of about 1.6 Mpc. This spatial coverage allows us to confirm the existence of a morphology-density relation within this cluster, and to identify several large, presumably infalling, subsystems. We confirm our previous conclusion that a very large fraction of the starforming galaxies in A851 have recently undergone starbursts. We argue that starbursts are mostly confined to two kinds of sites: infalling groups and the cluster center. At the cluster center it appears that infalling galaxies are undergoing major mergers, resulting in starbursts whose optical emission lines are completely buried beneath dust. The aftermath of this process appears to be proto-S0 galaxies devoid of star formation. In contrast, major mergers do not appear to be the cause of most of the starbursts in infalling groups, and fewer of these events result in the transformation of the galaxy into an S0. Some recent theoretical work provides possible explanations for these two distinct processes, but it is not clear whether they can operate with the very high efficiency needed to account for the very large starburst rate observed.

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