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NGC 628外盘的表面质量密度和结构

The Surface Mass Density and Structure of the Outer Disk of NGC 628

Stéphane Herbert-Fort, Dennis Zaritsky, Daniel Christlein, Sheila J. Kannappan

摘要:

我们研究了NGC 628(M74)外盘中GALEX选择的H_alpha结的运动学。我们对NGC 628周围235个最蓝的紫外线节点的光谱目标样本进行了检测,得到了15个H_alpha检测(6%),大致上是考虑到两个种群不同的平均年龄所预期的数字。在1 - 1.8R25(13.5 - 23.2kpc)范围内测得的H_α结的垂直速度频散< 11 km/s。我们假设H_alpha节点沿着一个“中间”垂直质量密度分布(介于等温sech(z)^[2]和指数分布之间),在整个外盘上具有恒定的标度高度(h_z = 700 pc),并估计总表面质量密度为7.5太阳质量/pc ^[2]。这个表面质量密度可以用观测到的外盘中的气体和恒星来解释(盘中需要很少或没有暗物质)。外盘的垂直速度色散H_alpha结几乎与Herrmann等人在靠近光盘外围的较老行星状星云中测量的结果相匹配,这表明外盘的散射水平较低。一个动态冷恒星组件延伸近两倍的传统光盘构成有趣的星系的吸积历史的限制。

英文摘要:

We study the kinematics of GALEX-selected H_alpha knots in the outer disk (beyond R25) of NGC 628 (M74), a galaxy representative of large, undisturbed, extended UV (Type 1 XUV) disks. Our spectroscopic target sample of 235 of the bluest UV knots surrounding NGC 628 yielded 15 H_alpha detections (6%), roughly the number expected given the different mean ages of the two populations. The measured vertical velocity dispersion of the H_alpha knots between 1 - 1.8 R25 (13.5 - 23.2 kpc) is < 11 km/s. We assume that the H_alpha knots trace an 'intermediate' vertical mass density distribution (between the isothermal sech(z)^2 and exponential distributions) with a constant scaleheight across the outer disk (h_z = 700 pc) and estimate a total surface mass density of 7.5 solar masses/pc^2. This surface mass density can be accounted for by the observed gas and stars in the outer disk (little or no dark matter in the disk is required). The vertical velocity dispersion of the outer disk H_alpha knots nearly matches that measured from older planetary nebulae near the outskirts of the optical disk by Herrmann et al., suggesting a low level of scattering in the outer disk. A dynamically cold stellar component extending nearly twice as far as the traditional optical disk poses interesting constraints on the accretion history of the galaxy.

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