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关于基本面散射的起源:与恒星星族参数的相关

On the origin of the scatter around the Fundamental Plane: correlations with stellar population parameters

A. Gargiulo, C. P. Haines, P. Merluzzi, R. J. Smith, F. La Barbera, G. Busarello, J. R. Lucey, A. Mercurio, M. Capaccioli

摘要:

本文利用AAT的AAOmega摄谱仪和ESO/MPI2.2m望远镜的WFI测光仪,对z=0.049的Shapley超星系团中的141个早型星系进行了基本面(FP)分析。这次巡天的主要特点是覆盖了低至σ_0 ~ 50 km/s的低质量星系。在R波段得到了最佳拟合的FP关系式logr_e=1.06 log sigma_0 - 0.82 log< I >_e + cst。σ_0的浅指数是我们的样本扩展到低速色散的结果。我们调查的内在FP散射的起源,使用估计的年龄,金属丰度和α/Fe。我们发现FP残差与平均恒星年龄反相关(&gt;3sigma),与以前的工作一致。这些相关性表明,有效半径小于FP预测值的星系,其恒星星族系统年龄更大,α超丰度大于平均值,其σ_0。包括α/Fe作为FP中的第四个参数,总散射从0.088 dex降低到0.075 dex,估计的固有散射从0.068 dex降低到0.049 dex。因此,α/Fe的变化占FP周围总方差的&gt;&gt; 30%,占估计的固有方差的&gt;&gt; 50%。这一结果表明,FP周围星系的分布与富集度密切相关,因此与恒星形成的时间尺度密切相关。我们的研究结果似乎是一致的合并假设的椭圆形的形成预测,一个显着的部分的散射是由于在形成合并残留物的给定质量的耗散的重要性的变化。

英文摘要:

We present a fundamental plane (FP) analysis of 141 early-type galaxies in the Shapley supercluster at z=0.049 based on spectroscopy from the AAOmega spectrograph at the AAT and photometry from the WFI on the ESO/MPI 2.2m telescope. The key feature of the survey is its coverage of low-mass galaxies down to sigma_0~50km/s. We obtain a best-fitting FP relation log r_e=1.06 log sigma_0 - 0.82 log < I >_e + cst in the R band. The shallow exponent of sigma_0 is a result of the extension of our sample to low velocity dispersions. We investigate the origin of the intrinsic FP scatter, using estimates of age, metallicity and alpha/Fe. We find that the FP residuals anti-correlate (>3sigma) with the mean stellar age in agreement with previous work. However, a stronger (>4sigma) correlation with alpha/Fe is also found. These correlations indicate that galaxies with effective radii smaller than those predicted by the FP have stellar populations systematically older and with alpha over-abundances larger than average, for their sigma_0. Including alpha/Fe as a fourth parameter in the FP, the total scatter decreases from 0.088 dex to 0.075 dex and the estimated intrinsic scatter decreases from 0.068 dex to 0.049 dex. Thus, variations in alpha/Fe account for >> 30% of the total variance around the FP, and >> 50% of the estimated intrinsic variance. This result indicates that the distribution of galaxies around the FP are tightly related to the enrichment, and hence to the timescale of star-formation. Our results appear to be consistent with the merger hypothesis for the formation of ellipticals which predicts that a significant fraction of the scatter is due to variations in the importance of dissipation in forming merger remnants of a given mass.

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