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在等级形成模型中的银河系化学演化- I。局域宇宙中的早型星系

Galactic chemical evolution in hierarchical formation models - I. Early-type galaxies in the local Universe

Matías Arrigoni, Scott C. Trager, Rachel S. Somerville, Brad K. Gibson

摘要:

在星系形成的层次范式下,我们在宇宙学半解析模型(SAMs)中研究了早型星系的金属丰度和丰度比。为了实现这一目标,我们实施了一个详细的星系化学演化(GCE)模型,现在可以预测在半解析模拟星系的个别元素的丰度。这是第一次SAM与活动星系核(AGN)的反馈包括化学演化处方,放松瞬时循环近似。我们发现,新的模型能够重现所观察到的质量-金属丰度(M*-[Z/H])的关系,并首次在SAM中,我们重现所观察到的正斜率的质量-丰度比(M*-[ $alpha$ /Fe])的关系。我们的结果表明,为了同时匹配这些早期星系的观测,使用一个非常温和的头重脚轻的IMF(即,斜率为x=1.15,而不是标准的x=1.3),并且似乎需要较低比例的双星爆炸为Ia型超新星。我们还研究了模拟星系中超新星爆炸的速率。在早期型(非恒星形成)星系,我们的预测也与观察到的SNe率一致。然而,在恒星形成的星系,一个更高的比例的超新星Ia双星比我们首选的模型是需要匹配的数据。然而,如果我们偏离经典模型,并引入一个人口的SNe Ia与非常短的延迟时间,我们的模型同时产生一个很好的匹配所观察到的金属丰度,丰度比和SN率。

英文摘要:

We study the metallicities and abundance ratios of early-type galaxies in cosmological semi-analytic models (SAMs) within the hierarchical galaxy formation paradigm. To achieve this we implemented a detailed galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model and can now predict abundances of individual elements for the galaxies in the semi-analytic simulations. This is the first time a SAM with feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has included a chemical evolution prescription that relaxes the instantaneous recycling approximation. We find that the new models are able to reproduce the observed mass-metallicity (M*-[Z/H]) relation and, for the first time in a SAM, we reproduce the observed positive slope of the mass-abundance ratio (M*-[$alpha$/Fe]) relation. Our results indicate that in order to simultaneously match these observations of early-type galaxies, the use of both a very mildly top-heavy IMF (i.e., with a slope of x=1.15 as opposed to a standard x=1.3), and a lower fraction of binaries that explode as Type Ia supernovae appears to be required. We also examine the rate of supernova explosions in the simulated galaxies. In early-type (non-star forming) galaxies, our predictions are also consistent with the observed SNe rates. However, in star-forming galaxies, a higher fraction of SN Ia binaries than in our preferred model is required to match the data. If, however, we deviate from the classical model and introduce a population of SNe Ia with very short delay times, our models simultaneously produce a good match to the observed metallicities, abundance ratios and SN rates.

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