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从径向颜色梯度看SDSS早型星系的人口统计

Demography of SDSS early-type galaxies from the perspective of radial color gradients

Hyewon Suh, Hyunjin Jeong, Kyuseok Oh, Sukyoung K. Yi, Ignacio Ferreras, Kevin Schawinski

摘要:

本文研究了Sloan数字巡天(SDSS)DR 6中早型星系在红移0.00<z<0.06范围内的径向g-r色梯度。大部分的大质量早型星系显示出负的颜色梯度(红核),正如人们对早型星系的普遍预期。另一方面,这个样本中大约30%的星系显示出正的颜色梯度(蓝色核心)。这些“蓝核”星系通常显示出强烈的H β吸收线强度和/或发射线比率,这表明存在年轻的恒星星族。结合星系演化探测器(GALEX)的紫外测光的光学数据,我们发现,所有的蓝核星系显示紫外光学颜色,只能解释年轻的恒星星族。这意味着早期星系中大部分剩余的恒星形成都集中在中心。蓝核星系主要是低速色散系统。一个简单的模型表明,观测到的正颜色梯度(蓝色核心)只有在恒星形成事件之后的10亿年才能看到,这是典型的近期恒星形成强度。观测到的有效半径减小,平均表面亮度增加,由于这种集中的恒星形成插曲。因此,大多数蓝核星系可能位于基本面的不同区域,而不是红核椭圆星系。然而,蓝核星系在基本面上的位置不能仅仅归因于最近的恒星形成,而是需要相当低的速度色散。我们的结论是,低水平的残余恒星形成持续在大多数低质量的早期型星系的中心,而大质量的大多是静态系统与金属驱动的红色核心。

英文摘要:

We have investigated the radial g-r color gradients of early-type galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR6 in the redshift range 0.00<z<0.06. The majority of massive early-type galaxies show a negative color gradient (red-cored) as generally expected for early-type galaxies. On the other hand, roughly 30 per cent of the galaxies in this sample show a positive color gradient (blue-cored). These "blue-cored" galaxies often show strong H beta absorption line strengths and/or emission line ratios that are indicative of the presence of young stellar populations. Combining the optical data with Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) UV photometry, we find that all blue-cored galaxies show UV-optical colors that can only be explained by young stellar populations. This implies that most of the residual star formation in early-type galaxies is centrally concentrated. Blue-cored galaxies are predominantly low velocity dispersion systems. A simple model shows that the observed positive color gradients (blue-cored) are visible only for a billion years after a star formation episode for the typical strength of recent star formation. The observed effective radius decreases and the mean surface brightness increases due to this centrally-concentrated star formation episode. As a result, the majority of blue-cored galaxies may lie on different regions in the Fundamental Plane from red-cored ellipticals. However, the position of the blue-cored galaxies on the Fundamental Plane cannot be solely attributed to recent star formation but require substantially lower velocity dispersion. We conclude that a low-level of residual star formation persists at the centers of most of low-mass early-type galaxies, whereas massive ones are mostly quiescent systems with metallicity-driven red cores.

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