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宇宙时间内正常星系的中红外线光度

The Mid-Infrared Luminosities of Normal Galaxies over Cosmic Time

Daniel D. Kelson, Bradford P. Holden

摘要:

现代星族合成模型估计,在恒星星族的第一个Gyr期间,TP-AGB恒星产生了50%的K波段光,其中相当大的一部分在哈勃时间内继续由TP-AGB产生。在0.2和1.5 Gyr之间,中等质量的恒星演化成TP-AGB C星,由于大量的星周尘埃,发射一半的能量在mid-IR. We结合这些结果使用已公布的银河系TP-AGB M和C星的中红外颜色构建简单的模型,探索TP-AGB的贡献24微米数据作为恒星星族年龄的函数。我们将这些经验模型与CDFS中z=0至z=2的星系系综进行比较,并在M81中进行高质量成像。在不确定性,TP-AGB似乎负责相当一部分的中红外光度的星系从z=0到z=2,最大的红移,我们可以测试我们的假设,而在同一时间,我们的模型再现了大部分的详细结构中红外成像的M81。中红外线是一个很好的诊断恒星形成的时间尺度为~1.5 Gyr,但这意味着正在进行的恒星形成率在z=1可能被高估了~1.5-6倍,这取决于恒星形成事件的性质。我们的结果,如果通过随后的工作得到证实,对宇宙的恒星形成率密度和恒星质量随时间的增长有很强的影响。

英文摘要:

Modern population synthesis models estimate that 50% of the restframe K-band light is produced by TP-AGB stars during the first Gyr of a stellar population, with a substantial fraction continuing to be produced by the TP-AGB over a Hubble time. Between 0.2 and 1.5 Gyr, intermediate mass stars evolve into TP-AGB C stars which, due to significant amounts of circumstellar dust, emit half their energy in the mid-IR. We combine these results using published mid-IR colors of Galactic TP-AGB M and C stars to construct simple models for exploring the contribution of the TP-AGB to 24micron data as a function of stellar population age. We compare these empirical models with an ensemble of galaxies in the CDFS from z=0 to z=2, and with high quality imaging in M81. Within the uncertainties, the TP-AGB appears responsible for a substantial fraction of the mid-IR luminosities of galaxies from z=0 to z=2, the maximum redshift to which we can test our hypothesis, while, at the same time, our models reproduce much of the detailed structure observed in mid-IR imaging of M81. The mid-IR is a good diagnostic of star formation over timescales of ~1.5 Gyr, but this implies that on-going star formation rates at z=1 may be overestimated by factors of ~1.5-6, depending on the nature of star formation events. Our results, if confirmed through subsequent work, have strong implications for the star formation rate density of the universe and the growth of stellar mass over time.

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