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6 Gyrs前的哈勃序列是怎样的?

How was the Hubble sequence 6 Gyrs ago?

R. Delgado-Serrano, F. Hammer, Y. B. Yang, M. Puech, H. Flores, M. Rodrigues

摘要:

星系如何聚集它们的质量以形成定义明确的哈勃序列是现代宇宙学中最有争议的话题之一。困难之一是把遥远的星系与现时代的星系联系起来。我们的目标是建立如何哈勃序列的星系,6个陀螺仪前。我们打算推导出一个过去的哈勃序列,它可以与现在的序列有因果关系。我们从SDSS和GOODS巡天中分别选取了附近星系和遥远星系的样本。我们验证了每个样本都是星系的代表。我们进一步表明,检索其形态分类所需的观测条件是相似的,在一个公正的方式。对两个样本中的所有星系进行了相同的形态分析。我们发现椭圆星系和透镜状星系没有数量演化,这与螺旋星系和奇特星系的强烈演化形成鲜明对比。螺旋星系在过去的丰度是原来的2.3倍,这正好被奇特星系的5倍的强烈减少所补偿。它强烈地表明,超过一半的现代螺旋有特殊的形态,6个Gyrs前,这必须考虑到任何星系盘演化和形成的情况。过去的哈勃序列可以用来测试这些场景,以及测试螺旋和凸起的基本平面的演化。

英文摘要:

The way galaxies assemble their mass to form the well-defined Hubble sequence is amongst the most debated topic in modern cosmology. One difficulty is to link distant galaxies to those at present epoch. We aim at establishing how were the galaxies of the Hubble sequence, 6 Gyrs ago. We intend to derive a past Hubble sequence that can be causally linked to the present-day one. We selected samples of nearby galaxies from the SDSS and of distant galaxies from the GOODS survey. We verified that each sample is representative of galaxies. We further showed that the observational conditions necessary to retrieve their morphological classification are similar in an unbiased way. Morphological analysis has been done in an identical way for all galaxies in the two samples. We found an absence of number evolution for elliptical and lenticular galaxies, which strikingly contrasts with the strong evolution of spiral and peculiar galaxies. Spiral galaxies were 2.3 times less abundant in the past, that is exactly compensated by the strong decrease by a factor 5 of peculiar galaxies. It strongly suggests that more than half of the present-day spirals had peculiar morphologies, 6 Gyrs ago, and this has to be accounted by any scenario of galactic disk evolution and formation. The past Hubble sequence can be used to test these scenarios as well as to test evolution of fundamental planes for spirals and bulges.

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