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从室女座矮椭圆星系的球状星团系统的运动学看室女座矮椭圆星系盘状起源的证据

Evidence for the disky origin of luminous Virgo dwarf ellipticals from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems

Michael A. Beasley, A. Javier Cenarro, Jay Strader, Jean Brodie

摘要:

我们报告的证据动态显着旋转的球状星团系统的两个明亮的室女座矮椭圆星系,VCC 1261和VCC 1528。包括以前的结果VCC 1087,所有三个室女座矮椭圆星系的球状星团系统的详细研究,到目前为止表现出v_rot/sigma > 1。以球状星团中的旋转作为最大圆盘旋转,我们发现这三个dE都满足r带Tully-Fisher关系。我们认为,这些数据支持的假设,即明亮的dEs是改造后的盘星系的残余物。我们还获得了VCC 1261和VCC 1528中恒星的深长缝数据。这两个星系都在其内部区域显示出快速的旋转,空间尺度约为0.5 kpc。这些旋转速度与GC系统中看到的旋转速度相似。由于室女座dEs的长缝数据延伸到1-2个有效半径(典型的深空观测),而球状星团延伸到4- 7个有效半径,我们得出结论,在许多明亮的dEs中没有检测到旋转可能仅仅是由于恒星数据中缺乏径向覆盖,而球状星团代表了dEs动力学的异常敏感的探针。基于这些数据,我们认为气体盘是早期宇宙中球状星团形成的重要场所。

英文摘要:

We report evidence for dynamically significant rotation in the globular cluster systems of two luminous Virgo dwarf ellipticals, VCC1261 and VCC1528. Including previous results for VCC1087, the globular cluster systems of all three Virgo dwarf ellipticals studied in detail to date exhibit v_rot/sigma > 1. Taking the rotation seen in the globular clusters as maximal disk rotation, we find all three dEs lie on the r-band Tully-Fisher relation. We argue that these data support the hypothesis that luminous dEs are the remnants of transformed disk galaxies. We also obtained deep, longslit data for the stars in VCC1261 and VCC1528. Both these galaxies show rapid rotation in their inner regions, with spatial scales of ~0.5 kpc. These rotation velocities are similar to those seen in the GC systems. Since our longslit data for Virgo dEs extend out to 1-2 effective radii (typical of deep observations), whereas the globular clusters extend out to 4--7 effective radii, we conclude that non-detections of rotation in many luminous dEs may simply be due to a lack of radial coverage in the stellar data, and that globular clusters represent singularly sensitive probes of the dynamics of dEs. Based on these data, we suggest that gas disks are significant sites of globular cluster formation in the early universe.

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