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基于光谱的k-修正和对E/S0s色-星等关系及其演化的启示

Spectral-based k-corrections and implications for the colour-magnitude relation of E/S0s and its evolution

Nathan Roche, Mariangela Bernardi, Joseph Hyde

摘要:

我们从斯隆数字巡天中选取了70378个0<z<0.36的E/S 0(早期型)星系样本,不包括盘状星系和恒星形成星系。我们直接从SDSS DR 6光谱中估计观测者和静止帧中的g和r幅度;这提供了对k校正的逐对象估计。我们使用从光谱的k-校正研究的演变的静止帧的颜色-星等关系(CMR)和颜色-西格玛(速度色散)关系(CsigmaR)。演化对k校正非常敏感。CMR和CsigmaR都随着红移的增加而向蓝方向发展,大约与被动演化模型一致。12 Gyr。CMR的斜率和零点取决于颜色是在固定的物理孔径还是角度孔径中定义的,这是因为这些物体的中心往往更红:固定角度孔径的关系更陡峭。另一方面,CsigmaR斜率没有显示出对定义颜色的孔径的这种依赖性,这表明颜色梯度与来自sigma-M_r关系的残差相关。由于这些残差是年龄指标,我们的研究结果表明颜色梯度与恒星星族的年龄相关。

英文摘要:

We select a sample of 70378 E/S0 (early-type) galaxies at 0<z<0.36 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, excluding disk and star-forming galaxies. We estimate g and r magnitudes in the observer- and rest-frames directly from the SDSS DR6 spectra; this provides an object-by-object estimate of the k-correction. We use the k-corrections from the spectra to study the evolution of the rest-frame colour-magnitude relation (CMR) and colour-sigma (velocity dispersion) relation (CsigmaR). The evolution is very sensitive to the k-correction. Both the CMR and CsigmaR evolve blueward with increasing redshift, approximately in agreement with passive evolution models with age approx. 12 Gyr. The slope and zero-point of the CMR depend on whether colours were defined in fixed physical or angular apertures, a consequence of the fact that the centers of these objects tend to be redder: the relation is steeper for fixed angular apertures. One the other hand, the CsigmaR slope does not show this dependence on the aperture in which the colour was defined, suggesting that colour gradients are correlated with residuals from the sigma-M_r relation. As these residuals are age indicators, our findings suggest that colour gradients correlate with the age of the stellar population.

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