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局部莱曼破裂星系类似物:大质量恒星形成团块对星际介质和年轻形成星系的全球结构的影响

Local Lyman Break Galaxy Analogs: The Impact of Massive Star-forming Clumps on the Interstellar Medium and the Global Structure of Young, Forming Galaxies

R. A. Overzier, T. M. Heckman, C. Tremonti, L. Armus, A. Basu-Zych, T. Goncalves, R. M. Rich, D. C. Martin, A. Ptak, D. Schiminovich, H. C. Ford, B. Madore, M. Seibert

摘要:

我们提出了HST紫外/光学成像,斯皮策中红外测光,和光谱的样本30个低红移(z=0.1-0.3)的星系选择从SDSS/GALEX是准确的本地类似物的高z莱曼Break Galerkin。Lyman Break Analogs(LBA)在质量、金属丰度、尘埃、SFR、尺寸和气体速度分散方面相似,因此能够详细研究在高Z下重要的过程。LBA的光发射线特性也类似于LBG的光发射线特性,表明它们的ISM中的条件相当。在紫外线下,长边星系的特征是大质量恒星形成的“团块”,而在光学上,它们通常显示出(后)合并/相互作用的证据。在6个例子中,我们发现了一个质量极大(>10^9 Msun)的致密(R~100 pc)主中心天体(DCO)。DCO优先出现在具有最高中红外光度和相应高SFR(15-100 Msun/yr)的LBA中。我们发现,大规模的SF团块(包括DCO)的质量比正常晚型星系中看到的核超星团大得多。然而,DCO的质量、大小和密度与典型椭圆星系中的超轻/中央尖点相似,质量与LBA星系相似。我们认为,DCO的形式在当今的例子中的耗散合并在高红移,被认为是产生了中央尖在本地椭圆。更一般地说,LBA的性质与富含气体的盘中的不稳定性导致非常大质量的恒星形成团块最终合并形成球体的想法一致。我们推测,DCOs目前还太年轻,无法成长为超大质量黑洞,因为它们仍处于超新星主导的外流阶段。

英文摘要:

We present HST UV/optical imaging, Spitzer mid-IR photometry, and optical spectroscopy of a sample of 30 low-redshift (z=0.1-0.3) galaxies chosen from SDSS/GALEX to be accurate local analogs of the high-z Lyman Break Galaxies. The Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs) are similar in mass, metallicity, dust, SFR, size and gas velocity dispersion, thus enabling a detailed investigation of processes that are important at high-z. The optical emission line properties of LBAs are also similar to those of LBGs, indicating comparable conditions in their ISM. In the UV, LBAs are characterized by complexes of massive star-forming "clumps", while in the optical they most often show evidence for (post-)mergers/interactions. In 6 cases, we find an extremely massive (>10^9 Msun) compact (R~100 pc) dominant central object (DCO). The DCOs are preferentially found in LBAs with the highest mid-IR luminosities and correspondingly high SFRs (15-100 Msun/yr). We show that the massive SF clumps (including the DCOs) have masses much larger than the nuclear super star clusters seen in normal late type galaxies. However, the DCOs have masses, sizes, and densities similar to the excess-light/central-cusps seen in typical elliptical galaxies with masses similar to the LBA galaxies. We suggest that the DCOs form in present-day examples of the dissipative mergers at high redshift that are believed to have produced the central-cusps in local ellipticals. More generally, the properties of the LBAs are consistent with the idea that instabilities in a gas-rich disk lead to very massive star-forming clumps that eventually coalesce to form a spheroid. We speculate that the DCOs are too young at present to be growing a supermassive black hole because they are still in a supernova-dominated outflow phase.

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