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高光度和低光度射电星系不同恒星形成历史的证据

Evidence of different star formation histories for high- and low-luminosity radio galaxies

Peter D. Herbert, Matt J. Jarvis, Chris J. Willott, Ross J. McLure, Ewan Mitchell, Steve Rawlings, Gary J. Hill, James S. Dunlop

摘要:

我们提出了我们的调查结果到恒星星族的24个射电星系在z~0.5绘制从四个完整的,低频选择无线电调查。我们使用的强度4000 A的休息作为一个指标,最近的恒星形成,并比较这与射电光度,光谱分类和形态分类。我们发现不同的恒星形成历史的证据,高,低光度的射电源,我们的低射电光度源(通常是FRI型源)有系统的老恒星星族比更高的射电光度组。我们的样品也被光谱分类划分得相当好。我们发现,被归类为具有低激发光谱(LEGs)的星系拥有较老的恒星星族比高激发线对象(HEGs),与HEGs显示最近的恒星形成的证据。我们还研究了Owen & Laing(1989)所用的射电形态与恒星星族之间的联系。我们发现,有一个偏好的“胖双”源有老的恒星星族比“经典双”源,虽然这也与这些来源主要是在LEG和HEG类别分别。这些结果是一致的假设,高能气体是由吸积的冷气,这可能是提供,例如,最近的合并,长期不稳定性,或对流冷流。这些过程也可能触发宿主星系中的恒星形成。LEG的宿主星系没有显示出最近恒星形成和冷气体流入的证据,并且与由星际介质的热相吸积提供动力相一致。

英文摘要:

We present the results of our investigation into the stellar populations of 24 radio galaxies at z~0.5 drawn from four complete, low-frequency selected radio surveys. We use the strength of the 4000A break as an indicator of recent star formation, and compare this with radio luminosity, optical spectral classification and morphological classification. We find evidence of different star formation histories for high- and low-luminosity radio sources; our group of low radio luminosity sources (typically FRI-type sources) has systematically older stellar populations than the higher radio luminosity group. Our sample is also fairly well divided by optical spectral classification. We find that galaxies classified as having low excitation spectra (LEGs) possess older stellar populations than high excitation line objects (HEGs), with the HEGs showing evidence for recent star formation. We also investigate the link between radio morphology, as used by Owen & Laing (1989), and the stellar populations. We find that there is a preference for the "fat-double" sources to have older stellar populations than the "classical double" sources, although this is also linked to these sources lying predominantly in the LEG and HEG categories respectively. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that HEGs are powered by accretion of cold gas, which could be supplied, for example, by recent mergers, secular instabilities, or filamentary cold flows. These processes could also trigger star formation in the host galaxy. The host galaxies of the LEGs do not show evidence for recent star formation and an influx of cold gas, and are consistent with being powered by the accretion of the hot phase of the inter-stellar medium.

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