剖析红色序列-- II。早型星系团在整个基平面的恒星形成历史
Dissecting the Red Sequence--II. Star Formation Histories of Early-Type Galaxies Throughout the Fundamental Plane
摘要：
这项分析使用了大约16，000个附近SDSS静止星系的光谱，以跟踪沿着和垂直于基本面（FP）的星系恒星形成历史的变化。我们根据星系的FP特性（sigma、Re和I e）对星系进行分类，并构造了跨越FP宽度和厚度的高信噪比平均星系光谱。从这些光谱中，我们使用Graves & Schiavon（2008）中描述的方法，基于单个恒星星族模型确定平均亮度加权年龄，[Fe/H]，[Mg/H]和[Mg/Fe]。与以前的工作一致，发现早型星系的恒星形成历史形成一个双参数家族。主要趋势是平均年龄、[Fe/H]、[Mg/H]和[Mg/Fe]都随σ增加而增加。然而，没有恒星星族的性质显示出在固定的σ下对R_e的依赖性，这表明σ而不是动力学质量（M_dyn ~ σ ^2 R_e）是过去恒星形成历史的更好的预测者。除了sigma的主要趋势外，星系还显示出一系列固定sigma的人口属性，这些属性与FP的表面亮度残差密切相关，例如表面亮度较高的星系比表面亮度较低的星系具有更年轻的平均年龄，更高的[Fe/H]，更高的[Mg/H]和更低的[Mg/Fe]。后一种趋势是对恒星形成历史的一个主要的新限制。
英文摘要：
This analysis uses spectra of ~16,000 nearby SDSS quiescent galaxies to track variations in galaxy star formation histories along and perpendicular to the Fundamental Plane (FP). We sort galaxies by their FP properties (sigma, R_e, and I_e) and construct high S/N mean galaxy spectra that span the breadth and thickness of the FP. From these spectra, we determine mean luminosity-weighted ages, [Fe/H], [Mg/H], and [Mg/Fe] based on single stellar population models using the method described in Graves & Schiavon (2008). In agreement with previous work, the star formation histories of early-type galaxies are found to form a two-parameter family. The major trend is that mean age, [Fe/H], [Mg/H], and [Mg/Fe] all increase with sigma. However, no stellar population property shows any dependence on R_e at fixed sigma, suggesting that sigma and not dynamical mass (M_dyn ~ sigma^2 R_e) is the better predictor of past star formation history. In addition to the main trend with sigma, galaxies also show a range of population properties at fixed sigma that are strongly correlated with surface brightness residuals from the FP, such that higher surface brightness galaxies have younger mean ages, higher [Fe/H], higher [Mg/H], and lower [Mg/Fe] than lower-surface brightness galaxies. These latter trends are a major new constraint on star-formation histories.
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