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螺旋星系球赝凸起中的星团

Star Clusters in Pseudo-Bulges of Spiral Galaxies

Daiana Di Nino, Michele Trenti, Massimo Stiavelli, C. Marcella Carollo, Claudia Scarlata, Rosemary F. G. Wyse

摘要:

本文以距离为17 ~ 37 Mpc的11个星系为样本,研究了晚型旋涡星系伪球周围星团系统的性质。利用HST ACS和WFPC 2的多波段图像数据,通过组合3个波段的探测(F435 W和F814 W与ACS,F606 W与WFPC 2)来识别星团。然后将光度数据与人口合成模型进行比较,以推断星团的质量和年龄。通过人工源蒙特卡罗模拟估计测光误差和完整性。尘埃消光估计考虑F160 W NICMOS观测星系的中心区域,扩大我们的波长覆盖范围。在所有的星系中,我们都能识别出年龄范围很大的星团,从年轻的(年龄<800万年)蓝色星团,典型的质量为10^3兆太阳,到年龄更大(年龄> 1亿~ 2.5亿万年)的更大质量的红色星团。后者中的一些可能会演变成类似于银河系球状星团的物体。我们计算的特定频率的老星系团相对于星系和球的光度。相对于星系光的特定频率似乎与早期螺旋的球状星团特定频率一致。我们比较了特定的频率相对于鼓包光与球状星团的特定频率的矮星系,它有一个表面亮度的轮廓,这是类似的伪鼓包在我们的样本。我们得到的特定频率为我们的样本星系高于矮星系,支持一个进化的场景中,一些矮星系可能是骚扰晚型螺旋星系的残余物托管伪隆起。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the properties of the star-cluster systems around pseudo-bulges of late-type spiral galaxies using a sample of 11 galaxies with distances from 17 to 37 Mpc. Star clusters are identified from multiband HST ACS and WFPC2 imaging data by combining detections in 3 bands (F435W and F814W with ACS and F606W with WFPC2). The photometric data are then compared to population synthesis models to infer the masses and ages of the star clusters. Photometric errors and completeness are estimated by means of artificial source Monte Carlo simulations. Dust extinction is estimated by considering F160W NICMOS observations of the central regions of the galaxies, augmenting our wavelength coverage. In all galaxies we identify star clusters with a wide range of ages, from young (age < 8 Myr) blue clusters, with typical mass of 10^3 Msun to older (age > 100-250 Myr), more massive, red clusters. Some of the latter might likely evolve into objects similar to the Milky Way's globular clusters. We compute the specific frequencies for the older clusters with respect to the galaxy and bulge luminosities. Specific frequencies relative to the galaxy light appear consistent with the globular cluster specific frequencies of early-type spirals. We compare the specific frequencies relative to the bulge light with the globular cluster specific frequencies of dwarf galaxies, which have a surface-brightness profile that is similar to that of the pseudo-bulges in our sample. The specific frequencies we derive for our sample galaxies are higher than those of the dwarf galaxies, supporting an evolutionary scenario in which some of the dwarf galaxies might be the remnants of harassed late-type spiral galaxies which hosted a pseudo-bulge.

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