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半人马座A群矮星系的恒星形成

Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies of the Nearby Centaurus A Group

Stephanie Cote, Adam Draginda, Evan D. Skillman, Bryan W. Miller

摘要:

我们介绍了半人马座A群附近17个矮不规则星系(dIs)的H α窄带成像。虽然这个星系群中所有的大型星系都有当前或最近的恒星形成增强事件,但dIs的恒星形成率正常,并且不包含比其他邻近星系群更大比例的矮星爆。由于大部分星系的距离已经相当精确,因此可以在3D空间中计算出dIs和较大星系之间的相对距离。我们发现,dI恒星形成率不依赖于当地的环境,特别是他们没有表现出任何相关性与距离最近的大星系的组的dI。在半人马座A星系群中有一个清晰的形态-密度关系,类似于玉夫座和本星系群,在这个意义上,dEs/dSphs倾向于离更大质量的星系群很小的距离,而dIs平均来说在更大的距离。我们在这个星系群中发现了四个过渡矮星,这些矮星具有dE/dSphs和dIs的特征,并且含有冷气体,但没有当前的恒星形成。有趣的是,过渡矮星与更大质量星系的平均距离介于dEs/dSphs和dIs之间,并且相当大:0.54 +- 0.31 Mpc。这个大的距离造成了一些困难的最流行的方案提出的转换dI到dE/dSph(冲压压力与潮汐剥离或星系骚扰)。如果观测到的过渡矮星确实缺少dIs和dE/dSphs之间的联系,那么它们的相对隔离使得它们不太可能是由这些机制产生的。我们建议,一个不均匀的IGM含有较高密度的团块将能够冲压压力剥离的dIs在这样大的距离。

英文摘要:

We present Halpha narrow-band imaging of 17 dwarf irregular galaxies (dIs) in the nearby Centaurus A Group. Although all large galaxies of the group have a current or recent enhanced star formation episode, the dIs have normal star formation rates and do not contain a larger fraction of dwarf starbursts than other nearby groups. Relative distances between dIs and larger galaxies of the group can be computed in 3D since most of them have now fairly accurately known distances. We find that the dI star formation rates do not depend on local environment, and in particular they do not show any correlation with the distance of the dI to the nearest large galaxy of the group. There is a clear morphology-density relation in the Centaurus A Group, similarly to the Sculptor and Local Groups, in the sense that dEs/dSphs tend to be at small distances from the more massive galaxies of the group, while dIs are on average at larger distances. We find four transition dwarfs in the Group, dwarfs that show characteristics of both dE/dSphs and dIs, and which contain cold gas but no current star formation. Interestingly the transition dwarfs have an average distance to the more massive galaxies which is intermediate between those of the dEs/dSphs and dIs, and which is quite large: 0.54 +- 0.31 Mpc. This large distance poses some difficulty for the most popular scenarios proposed for transforming a dI into a dE/dSph (ram-pressure with tidal stripping or galaxy harassment). If the observed transition dwarfs are indeed missing links between dIs and dE/dSphs, their relative isolation makes it less likely to have been produced by these mechanisms. We propose that an inhomogeneous IGM containing higher density clumps would be able to ram-pressure stripped the dIs at such large distances.

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