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HI在斯隆数字巡天中选择的星系II:富气星系的颜色

HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: The Colors of Gas-Rich Galaxies

Andrew A. West, Diego A. Garcia-Appadoo, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Mike J. Disney, Constance R. Rockosi, Zeljko Ivezic

摘要:

我们利用HI选择的195个星系的样本的颜色信息,探索恒星形成的历史和物理条件,产生所观察到的颜色。我们表明,HI选择创建一个显着的偏移对蓝色的颜色,可以解释增强最近爆发的恒星形成。也没有明显的颜色双峰性,因为HI选择限制了样本的蓝色,积极的恒星形成系统,减少了红色序列的重要性。上升的恒星形成率仍然需要解释比g-r < 0.3更蓝的星系的颜色。我们还表明,在我们的样本中最蓝的星系的颜色是由发射线和恒星星族的合成模型单独(没有发射线)是不足以再现许多星系的颜色。这些发射线在r-i颜色中产生大的变化,但使g-r颜色基本上不变。此外,我们发现在低质量的星系颜色的色散增加,这可能是在低质量星系的恒星形成过程中的变化的结果。

英文摘要:

We utilize color information for an HI-selected sample of 195 galaxies to explore the star formation histories and physical conditions that produce the observed colors. We show that the HI selection creates a significant offset towards bluer colors that can be explained by enhanced recent bursts of star formation. There is also no obvious color bimodality, because the HI selection restricts the sample to bluer, actively star forming systems, diminishing the importance of the red sequence. Rising star formation rates are still required to explain the colors of galaxies bluer than g-r < 0.3. We also demonstrate that the colors of the bluest galaxies in our sample are dominated by emission lines and that stellar population synthesis models alone (without emission lines) are not adequate for reproducing many of the galaxy colors. These emission lines produce large changes in the r-i colors but leave the g-r color largely unchanged. In addition, we find an increase in the dispersion of galaxy colors at low masses that may be the result of a change in the star formation process in low-mass galaxies.

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