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在孤立星系中设置HI特性的正常水平

Setting the normalcy level of HI properties in isolated galaxies

D. Espada, L. Verdes-Montenegro, E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, W. K. Huchtmeier, S. Leon, U. Lisenfeld, J. Sabater, J. Sulentic, S. Verley, M. Yun

摘要:

研究大多数孤立星系的原子气体(HI)特性对于量化环境对星际介质这一敏感组分的影响至关重要。作为AMIGA项目(孤立星系ISM分析,http://amiga.iaa.es)的一部分,我们观察并汇编了孤立星系目录中约800个星系的定义明确的样本的HI数据,该项目大大扩大了以前用于量化位于致密环境中的星系中HI不足的样本。通过研究182个HI剖面的形状,我们重新审视了通常被接受的结果,即与环境无关,超过一半的星系呈现扰动HI盘。在孤立的星系,这肯定会是一个惊人的结果,如果这些应该是最轻松的系统,并在HI磁盘的弛豫时间尺度和星系中最频繁的扰动机制的性质的影响。我们的样本可能在本地宇宙中表现出最低的HI不对称水平。我们发现,其他领域的样品提出了超过约20%以上的不对称HI配置文件比在CIG。在我们的样本中,仍然有一小部分星系呈现出很大的不对称性。后续的高分辨率VLA地图提供了深入了解这种不对称的起源。

英文摘要:

Studying the atomic gas (HI) properties of the most isolated galaxies is essential to quantify the effect that the environment exerts on this sensitive component of the interstellar medium. We observed and compiled HI data for a well defined sample of ~ 800 galaxies in the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies, as part of the AMIGA project (Analysis of the ISM in Isolated GAlaxies, http://amiga.iaa.es), which enlarges considerably previous samples used to quantify the HI deficiency in galaxies located in denser environments. By studying the shape of 182 HI profiles, we revisited the usually accepted result that, independently of the environment, more than half of the galaxies present a perturbed HI disk. In isolated galaxies this would certainly be a striking result if these are supposed to be the most relaxed systems, and has implications in the relaxation time scales of HI disks and the nature of the most frequent perturbing mechanisms in galaxies. Our sample likely exhibits the lowest HI asymmetry level in the local Universe. We found that other field samples present an excess of ~ 20% more asymmetric HI profiles than that in CIG. Still a small percentage of galaxies in our sample present large asymmetries. Follow-up high resolution VLA maps give insight into the origin of such asymmetries.

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