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透镜星系及其环境

Lenticular Galaxies and Their Environments

Sidney van den Bergh

摘要:

人们普遍认为,透镜状星系(S 0)最初是螺旋星系,其中的气体已经通过与热星系团气体的相互作用而被去除,或者通过冲压压力从在丰富星系团内轨道运行的螺旋星系中剥离冷气体。然而,这个解释的问题是:(1)有些望远镜,如NGC 3115,是孤立的场星系,而不是星系团成员。(2)星系团中、星系群中和场中的S_0星系的扁率分布在统计上是不可区分的。这是令人惊讶的,因为人们可能会认为大多数场S 0星系的祖先都是扁平的晚型星系,而星系团中的望远镜被认为大多来自于膨胀主导的早型星系。(3)对于冲压压力来说,剥离具有深势阱的大质量发光星系应该是最困难的。然而,在星系团、星系群和视场中,早型Shapley-Ames星系的光度分布之间没有统计上的显著差异。(4)最后,冲压压力汽提和热团簇内气体的蒸发在富团簇中是最有效的。然而,Shapley-Ames样本中的少量可用数据似乎显示,在星团、星系群和野外,贫尘S0_1和富尘S0_3星系的相对频率之间没有统计学上的显著差异。初步得出结论,冲压压力剥离,并通过星系团内气体加热,可能不是唯一的演化通道,导致透镜星系的形成。据推测,气体饥饿,或气体喷射的活动核,可能发挥了重要作用,在所有的S 0星系的形成的一个重要部分。

英文摘要:

It is widely believed that lenticular (S0) galaxies were initially spirals from which the gas has been removed by interactions with hot cluster gas, or by ram-pressure stripping of cool gas from spirals that are orbiting within rich clusters of galaxies. However, problems with this interpretation are that: (1) Some lenticulars, such as NGC 3115, are isolated field galaxies rather than cluster members. (2) The distribution of flattening values of S0 galaxies in clusters, in groups and in the field are statistically indistinguishable. This is surprising because one might have expected most of the progenitors of field S0 galaxies to have been flattened late-type galaxies, whereas lenticulars in clusters are thought to have mostly been derived from bulge-dominated early-type galaxies. (3) It should be hardest for ram-pressure to strip massive luminous galaxies with deep potential wells. However, no statistically significant differences are seen between the luminosity distributions of early-type Shapley-Ames galaxies in clusters, groups and in the field. (4) Finally, both ram-pressure stripping and evaporation by hot intra-cluster gas would be most efficient in rich clusters. However, the small number of available data in the Shapley-Ames sample appears to show no statistically significant differences between the relative frequencies of dust-poor S0_1 and dust-rich S0_3 galaxies in clusters, groups and in the field. It is tentatively concluded that ram-pressure stripping, and heating by intra-cluster gas, may not be the only evolutionary channels that lead to the formation of lenticular galaxies. It is speculated that gas starvation, or gas ejection by active nuclei, may have play a major role in the formation of a significant fraction of all S0 galaxies.

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