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干合并对早型星系色星等关系的影响

The effect of dry mergers on the color-magnitude relation of early-type galaxies

Rosalind E. Skelton, Eric F. Bell, Rachel S. Somerville

摘要:

我们调查的干合并的颜色-星等关系(CMR)的星系的效果,并发现合并的层次模型预测的结果在一个红色的序列,比较以及与观察到的低红移关系。从斯隆数字巡天数据发布6中选择的29,000个早期星系的样本显示,CMR的亮端比暗端具有更浅的斜率和更小的散射。这种星等依赖性是由一个简单的玩具模型预测的,在这个模型中,富含气体的星系合并通过淬灭它们的恒星形成而将星系移动到“创造红序列”(CRS),而随后的红色,缺乏气体的星系之间的合并(所谓的“干”合并)沿着关系移动星系。我们使用星系合并树从半解析模型的星系形成,以测试这种效果的幅度,并找到一个斜率的变化,在明亮的一端,括号的意见,使用气体分数阈值为10-30%,分离湿和干合并。一个更现实的模型,包括散射在CRS表明,干合并减少了散射在明亮的结束。与先前的声明相反,在观测到的CMR中的小分散因此不能用于约束干合并的量。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effect of dry merging on the color-magnitude relation (CMR) of galaxies and find that the amount of merging predicted by a hierarchical model results in a red sequence that compares well with the observed low-redshift relation. A sample of 29,000 early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 shows that the bright end of the CMR has a shallower slope and smaller scatter than the faint end. This magnitude dependence is predicted by a simple toy model in which gas-rich mergers move galaxies onto a "creation red sequence" (CRS) by quenching their star formation, and subsequent mergers between red, gas-poor galaxies (so-called "dry" mergers) move galaxies along the relation. We use galaxy merger trees from a semianalytic model of galaxy formation to test the amplitude of this effect and find a change in slope at the bright end that brackets the observations, using gas fraction thresholds of 10-30% to separate wet and dry mergers. A more realistic model that includes scatter in the CRS shows that dry merging decreases the scatter at the bright end. Contrary to previous claims, the small scatter in the observed CMR thus cannot be used to constrain the amount of dry merging.

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