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恒星形成星系的基本气体耗尽和恒星质量积累时间

The fundamental gas depletion and stellar-mass buildup times of star forming galaxies

Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, Pavel Kroupa

摘要:

恒星并不是连续地分布在恒星形成的星系中形成的。它们形成不同质量的星团。星系团恒星形成的这一性质在星系恒星初始质量积分函数(IGIMF)理论中得到了考虑,在该理论中,星系范围的IMF(IGIMF)是通过将所有年轻星团的IMF相加来计算的。对于大质量恒星,IGIMF比星团中的普遍IMF更陡,并且随着SFR的减小而变陡,这被称为IGIMF效应。因此,在IGIMF理论中,当前的SFR和星系的总Halpha光度与经典的情况相比是非线性的,在经典的情况下,星系范围内的IMF被假设为常数,并且与星团中的IMF相同。在这里,我们第一次适用于修订的SFR-L_H α关系的本地体积恒星形成星系的样本测量H α光度。基本结果是:i)星系的SFR与总星系中性气体质量成线性比例,ii)矮不规则星系和大型盘星系的气体耗尽时间尺度约为3 Gyr,这意味着矮星系的恒星形成效率并不比大型盘星系低,iii)矮星系和大型星系的恒星质量积累时间仅与IGIMF背景下的缩小一致,但这与传统框架下的缩减规模相矛盾,传统框架假设整个银河系的IMF保持不变。

英文摘要:

Stars do not form continuously distributed over star forming galaxies. They form in star clusters of different masses. This nature of clustered star formation is taken into account in the theory of the integrated galactic stellar initial mass function (IGIMF) in which the galaxy-wide IMF (the IGIMF) is calculated by adding all IMFs of young star clusters. For massive stars the IGIMF is steeper than the universal IMF in star clusters and steepens with decreasing SFR which is called the IGIMF-effect. The current SFR and the total Halpha luminosity of galaxies therefore scale non-linearly in the IGIMF theory compared to the classical case in which the galaxy-wide IMF is assumed to be constant and identical to the IMF in star clusters. We here apply for the first time the revised SFR-L_Halpha relation on a sample of local volume star forming galaxies with measured Halpha luminosities. The fundamental results are: i) the SFRs of galaxies scale linearly with the total galaxy neutral gas mass, ii) the gas depletion time scales of dwarf irregular and large disk galaxies are about 3 Gyr implying that dwarf galaxies do not have lower star formation efficiencies than large disk galaxies, and iii) the stellar mass buildup times of dwarf and large galaxies are only in agreement with downsizing in the IGIMF context, but contradict downsizing within the traditional framework that assumes a constant galaxy-wide IMF.

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