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明亮早型星系的合并

Mergers of luminous early-type galaxies

Z. L. Wen, J. L. Han, F. S. Liu

摘要:

我们从SDSS数据中仔细地选取了本机宇宙(z<0.12)中明亮的早型星系(M_r<-21.5)的一个大的完整的体积有限的投影密偶(7<r_p<50 kpc)样本(1209)。其中249个(21%)显示出相互作用特征,这表明大约0.8%的星系正在合并。我们导出了明亮早型星系的共动体积合并率为~(1.0+/-0.4)\times 10^{-5} Mpc^{-3} Gyr^{-1}。这是对局部宇宙中发光星系合并率的直接观测测定。我们还得到了超大质量黑洞(SMBH)双星的啁啾质量分布log[Phi(log M / M_{odot})]=(21.7+/-4.2)-(3.0+/-0.5)log M/ M_{odot} .在较少的假设条件下,我们估算了SMBH双星在频率为10^{-9}-10 ^{-7} Hz的合并过程中产生的引力波(GW)背景的应变振幅.

英文摘要:

We have made a careful selection of a large complete volume-limited sample (1209) of projected close pairs (7<r_p<50 kpc) of luminous early-type galaxies (M_r<-21.5) in the local universe (z<0.12) from the SDSS data. 249 (21%) of them show interaction features, which suggests that about 0.8% of the galaxies are merging. We derived a comoving volume merger rate of ~(1.0+/-0.4)\times 10^{-5} Mpc^{-3} Gyr^{-1} for luminous early-type galaxies. This is a direct observational determination of the merger rate of luminous galaxies in the local universe. We also obtained the chirp mass distribution of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary following log[Phi(log M /M_{odot})]=(21.7+/-4.2)-(3.0+/-0.5)log M/M_{odot}. With less assumptions than previous works, we estimated the strain amplitude of the gravitational wave (GW) background from coalescence of SMBH binaries at frequency 10^{-9}-10^{-7} Hz.

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