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干合并对色幅关系的影响

The Effect of Dry Mergers on the Color-Magnitude Relation

Rosalind E. Skelton, Eric F. Bell, Rachel S. Somerville

摘要:

我们通过一个简单的玩具模型研究了贫气体(所谓的“干”)合并对早型星系色-星等关系(CMR)的影响,并与斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的低z观测结果进行了比较。观察到的红色序列显示出向蓝色倾斜,并且在亮端的散射减少。这些特点是预测我们的模型,合并树的基础上,从半解析模型的星系形成。我们假设星系在经历主要的富含气体的合并时进入“创造红序列”。随后的干合并通过增加星系的质量使星系沿着关系移动,但也使它们稍微变蓝。这是因为明亮的星系最有可能与更多更暗的星系合并,因此更蓝的星系位于关系的更深处。明亮的星系比暗淡的星系经历更高比例的干合并,这导致CMR斜率的变化。一个更现实的模型,包括分散在初始的关系表明,干合并导致收紧的CMR向亮端。因此,观测到的CMR中的小分散不能用来反对干合并引起的显著质量增长。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effect of gas-poor (so-called "dry") mergers on the color-magnitude relation (CMR) of early-type galaxies through a simple toy model and compare with low-z observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The observed red sequence shows a tilt towards bluer colors and a decrease in scatter at the bright end. These characteristics are predicted by our model, based on merger trees from a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. We assume galaxies move onto a "creation red sequence" when they undergo major gas-rich mergers. Subsequent dry mergers move galaxies along the relation by increasing their mass, but also make them slightly bluer. This occurs because bright galaxies are most likely to merge with one of the more numerous fainter and consequently bluer galaxies that lie further down the relation. Bright galaxies undergo a higher fraction of dry mergers than faint galaxies, which causes a change in the slope of the CMR. A more realistic model that includes scatter in the initial relation shows that dry merging causes a tightening of the CMR towards the bright end. The small scatter in the observed CMR thus cannot be used to argue against significant mass growth from dry merging.

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