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利用SDSS谱精确估算星系恒星形成历史参数

Accurate parameter estimation for star formation history in galaxies using SDSS spectra

Joseph W. Richards, Peter E. Freeman, Ann B. Lee, Chad M. Schafer

摘要:

为了进一步了解星系形成的复杂物理过程,我们必须描述大型星系数据库的形成和演化。Cid Fernandes等人(2004)的光谱合成STARLIGHT代码就是为此目的而设计的。STARLIGHT的结果与简单恒星星族(SSP)谱输入基的选择密切相关。使用随机遍历参数空间的代码的速度与基谱数量的平方成比例,这使得在计算上需要选择少量的在年龄和金属丰度方面粗采样的SSP。在本文中,我们开发的方法的基础上的扩散图(Lafon和李,2006年),第一次,选择适当的基础上的原型SSP光谱从一个大的SSP光谱设计近似的连续网格的年龄和金属丰度的SSP星系的真正组成。我们表明,我们的技术实现了更好的精度模拟星系的物理参数估计。具体来说,我们表明,我们的方法显着降低年龄金属丰度简并,这是常见的星系人口合成方法。我们分析了SDSS DR6中的3046个星系的样本,并比较了从不同的基础选择获得的参数估计。

英文摘要:

To further our knowledge of the complex physical process of galaxy formation, it is essential that we characterize the formation and evolution of large databases of galaxies. The spectral synthesis STARLIGHT code of Cid Fernandes et al. (2004) was designed for this purpose. Results of STARLIGHT are highly dependent on the choice of input basis of simple stellar population (SSP) spectra. Speed of the code, which uses random walks through the parameter space, scales as the square of the number of basis spectra, making it computationally necessary to choose a small number of SSPs that are coarsely sampled in age and metallicity. In this paper, we develop methods based on diffusion map (Lafon & Lee, 2006) that, for the first time, choose appropriate bases of prototype SSP spectra from a large set of SSP spectra designed to approximate the continuous grid of age and metallicity of SSPs of which galaxies are truly composed. We show that our techniques achieve better accuracy of physical parameter estimation for simulated galaxies. Specifically, we show that our methods significantly decrease the age-metallicity degeneracy that is common in galaxy population synthesis methods. We analyze a sample of 3046 galaxies in SDSS DR6 and compare the parameter estimates obtained from different basis choices.

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