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合并在早期型星系演化和黑洞生长中的作用

The Role of Mergers in Early-type Galaxy Evolution and Black Hole Growth

Kevin Schawinski, Nathan Dowlin, Daniel Thomas, C. Megan Urry, Edward Edmondson

摘要:

星系形成的模型调用的主要合并的气体丰富的祖星系的触发器的重要阶段的黑洞的增长和相关的反馈,抑制恒星形成,创造红色的球状遗迹。然而,观测证据之间的联系合并和活动星系核(AGN)阶段是不清楚的。我们分析了一个样本的低质量早期型星系已知的过程中,从蓝色云迁移到红色序列通过活动星系核阶段的绿色山谷。使用更深的成像从SDSS条纹82,我们表明,在早期的星爆阶段的主要形态干扰的对象的比例是高的,但迅速下降到背景水平看到在静止的早期型星系的大量活动星系核辐射的时间几百万年后的星爆。这一观察经验联系的活动星系核活动在低红移早型星系的一个重要的合并事件在最近的过去。合并驱动的星爆和活动星系核活动的峰值之间的大的时间延迟允许合并功能衰减到背景,因此可以解释合并功能和活动星系核活动之间的弱联系在文献中。

英文摘要:

Models of galaxy formation invoke the major merger of gas-rich progenitor galaxies as the trigger for significant phases of black hole growth and the associated feedback that suppresses star formation to create red spheroidal remnants. However, the observational evidence for the connection between mergers and active galactic nucleus (AGN) phases is not clear. We analyze a sample of low-mass early-type galaxies known to be in the process of migrating from the blue cloud to the red sequence via an AGN phase in the green valley. Using deeper imaging from SDSS Stripe 82, we show that the fraction of objects with major morphological disturbances is high during the early starburst phase, but declines rapidly to the background level seen in quiescent early-type galaxies by the time of substantial AGN radiation several hundred Myr after the starburst. This observation empirically links the AGN activity in low-redshift early-type galaxies to a significant merger event in the recent past. The large time delay between the merger-driven starburst and the peak of AGN activity allows for the merger features to decay to the background and hence may explain the weak link between merger features and AGN activity in the literature.

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