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建立星系对的控制样本

Building a control sample for galaxy pairs

Josefa Perez, Patricia Tissera, Jeremy Blaizot, .

摘要:

一些观测工作试图通过比较成对的星系和孤立的星系来分离星系相互作用的影响。然而,不同的作者提出了不同的方法来构建这些所谓的控制样本(CS)。通过使用模拟星系星表的SDSS-DR 4建立了从千年模拟,我们探讨如何建立一个CS的方式可能会引入偏见,可能会影响结果的解释。我们利用的事实,即物理的相互作用不包括在半分析模型,推断模拟控制和配对样本之间的任何差异可以归因于选择偏差。因此,我们发现成对的星系往往是人为的年龄更大,更突出的主导地位,并有更少的冷气体和不同的金属比孤立的同行。同样由于有偏向的选择,成对的星系倾向于生活在更高密度的环境中,并且在更大质量的晕中。我们发现,施加约束的红移,恒星质量和局部密度减少选择偏差的70%。基于这些发现,我们建议观察者如何建立一个独特的和公正的CS,以揭示星系相互作用的影响。

英文摘要:

Several observational works have attempted to isolate the effects of galaxy interactions by comparing galaxies in pairs with isolated galaxies. However, different authors have proposed different ways to build these so-called control samples (CS). By using mock galaxy catalogues of the SDSS-DR4 built up from the Millennium Simulation, we explore how the way of building a CS might introduce biases which could affect the interpretation of results. We make use of the fact that the physics of interactions is not included in the semianalytic model, to infer that any difference between the mock control and pair samples can be ascribed to selection biases. Thus, we find that galaxies in pairs artificially tend to be older and more bulge-dominated, and to have less cold gas and different metallicities than their isolated counterparts. Also because of a biased selection, galaxies in pairs tend to live in higher density environments, and in haloes of larger masses. We find that imposing constraints on redshift, stellar masses and local densities diminishes the selection biases by ~70%. Based on these findings, we suggest observers how to build an unique and unbiased CS in order to reveal the effect of galaxy interactions.

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