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Sloan数字巡天中螺旋盘的颜色梯度

The color gradients of spiral disks in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

C. Z. Liu, S. Y. Shen, Z. Y. Shao, R. X. Chang, J. L. Hou, J. Yin, D. W. Yang

摘要:

我们调查的径向颜色梯度的星系盘使用的样本约20,000面对螺旋星系从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS-DR4)的第四次数据发布选择。我们将具有相似浓度、大小和光度的星系组合起来构建复合星系,然后通过叠加所有成员星系的方位角平均径向颜色轮廓来测量它们的颜色轮廓。除了最小的星系(R_{50} <3 kpc),几乎所有星系都显示出负的盘色梯度,平均g-r梯度G_{gr} =-0.006 mag kpc ^{-1},r-z梯度G_{rz} =-0.018 mag kpc ^{-1}。星系盘的颜色梯度与星系的形态类型无关,而强烈地依赖于星系盘的表面亮度μ d,表面亮度越低的星系盘颜色梯度越陡。我们将颜色梯度和表面亮度之间的内在相关性量化为G_{gr} =-0.011 μ_{d}+0.233和G_{rz} =-0.015 μ_{d}+0.324。这些量化的相关性为螺旋星系的形成和演化模型提供了严格的观测约束。

英文摘要:

We investigate the radial color gradients of galactic disks using a sample of about 20,000 face-on spiral galaxies selected from the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR4). We combine galaxies with similar concentration, size and luminosity to construct composite galaxies, and then measure their color profiles by stacking the azimuthally averaged radial color profiles of all the member galaxies. Except for the smallest galaxies (R_{50}<3 kpc), almost all galaxies show negative disk color gradients with mean g-r gradient G_{gr}=-0.006 mag kpc^{-1} and r-z gradient G_{rz}=-0.018 mag kpc^{-1}. The disk color gradients are independent of the morphological types of galaxies and strongly dependent on the disk surface brightness μ_{d}, with lower surface brightness galactic disks having steeper color gradients. We quantify the intrinsic correlation between color gradients and surface brightness as G_{gr}=-0.011μ_{d}+0.233 and G_{rz}=-0.015μ_{d}+0.324. These quantified correlations provide tight observational constraints on the formation and evolution models of spiral galaxies.

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