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高红移椭圆星系:它们(都)真的很紧凑吗?

High-redshift elliptical galaxies: are they (all) really compact?

C. Mancini, E. Daddi, A. Renzini, F. Salmi, H. J. McCracken, A. Cimatti, M. Onodera, M. Salvato, A. M. Koekemoer, H. Aussel, E. Le Floc'h, C. Willott

摘要:

我们在COSMOS 2 deg^2场中研究了12个z_phot>1.4的超大质量被动演化早型星系(ETG)的性质。选择这12个ETG作为pBzK,具有精确的1.4<= z_phot <= 1.7,椭圆体典型的高Sersic折射率分布,在24微米处未检测到,导致M*>2.5x10^11 M_sun(Chabrier IMF)的完整ETG样品。与先前的声明相反,在HST+ACS的非常高的S/N成像数据中估计的半光半径对于大多数样品来说都很大,与局部椭圆相一致。如果M*<2.5x10^11 M_sun的高红移ETG真的像以前的研究报道的那样尺寸小且紧凑,我们的结果可能表明一种“缩小”的情况,即最大质量的ETG比低质量的ETG更早更快地达到它们的最终结构。然而,模拟星系的形态属性固定到那些本地ETG具有相同的恒星质量表明,少数紧凑的星系,我们仍然在我们的样本中恢复可以理解的波动,由于噪声防止恢复扩展的低表面亮度晕在光剖面。这样的晕,典型的Sersic配置文件,甚至延伸到40千秒差距,确实看到在我们的样品。

英文摘要:

We investigate the properties of 12 ultra-massive passively evolving early type galaxies (ETGs) at z_phot>1.4 in the COSMOS 2 deg^2 field. These 12 ETGs were selected as pBzKs, have accurate 1.4<= z_phot <=1.7,high Sersic index profiles typical of ellipticals, no detection at 24 micron, resulting in a complete ETG sample at M*>2.5x10^11 M_sun (Chabrier IMF). Contrary to previous claims, the half light radii estimated in very high S/N imaging data from HST+ACS are found to be large for most of the sample, consistent with local ellipticals. If the high redshift ETGs with M*<2.5x10^11 M_sun are really small in size and compact as reported in previous studies, our result may suggest a "downsizing" scenario, whereby the most massive ETGs reach their final structure earlier and faster than lower mass ones. However, simulating galaxies with morphological properties fixed to those of local ETGs with the same stellar mass show that the few compact galaxies that we still recover in our sample can be understood in term of fluctuations due to noise preventing the recovery of the extended low surface brightness halos in the light profile. Such halos, typical of Sersic profiles, extending even up to 40 kpc, are indeed seen in our sample.

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