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SDSS Stripe82中的特殊早型星系

Peculiar early-type galaxies in the SDSS Stripe82

Sugata Kaviraj

摘要:

我们探讨的“奇特”的早期型星系(ETGs)在当地的宇宙,显示(微弱)最近的相互作用,如潮汐尾,壳和尘埃带的形态特征的属性。来自斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的标准深度(51秒曝光)多色星系图像与来自公共SDSS Stripe82的显着(2 mags)更深的单色图像相结合,通过仔细的目视检查,提取出附近发光ETG的强大样本,包括约70个特殊系统的子集。18%的ETG显示出扰动形态的迹象(例如贝壳),而7%显示出尘埃带和斑块的证据。奇特的ETG人口被发现优先居住在低密度的环境(郊区的集群,集团或字段)。光学发射线比的分析表明,奇特的ETG的Seyferts或LINER(19.4%)的分数是在其放松的对应值(10.1%)的两倍。类LINER发射是所有ETG类星云活动的主要类型,可能是由与最近恒星形成相关的恒星光电离驱动的。对紫外光学颜色的分析表明,无论考虑的光度范围如何,在最后一个Gyr中经历恒星形成的奇特ETG的比例比其松弛的对应物高出约1.5倍。分光光度的结果强烈表明,相互作用,产生的形态特点也诱导低水平的最近的恒星形成,根据最近的文献,可能会贡献百分之几的恒星质量在过去的1 Gyr。构成本文基础的星系目录可以在http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~ska/stripe82/skaviraj_stripe82.dat或向作者索取。

英文摘要:

We explore the properties of `peculiar' early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the local Universe, that show (faint) morphological signatures of recent interactions such as tidal tails, shells and dust lanes. Standard-depth (51s exposure) multi-colour galaxy images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are combined with the significantly (2 mags) deeper monochromatic images from the public SDSS Stripe82 to extract, through careful visual inspection, a robust sample of nearby, luminous ETGs, including a subset of ~70 peculiar systems. 18% of ETGs exhibit signs of disturbed morphologies (e.g. shells), while 7% show evidence of dust lanes and patches. The peculiar ETG population is found to preferentially inhabit low-density environments (outskirts of clusters, groups or the field). An analysis of optical emission-line ratios indicates that the fraction of peculiar ETGs that are Seyferts or LINERs (19.4%) is twice the corresponding values in their relaxed counterparts (10.1%). LINER-like emission is the dominant type of nebular activity in all ETG classes, plausibly driven by stellar photoionisation associated with recent star formation. An analysis of UV-optical colours indicates that, regardless of the luminosity range being considered, the fraction of peculiar ETGs that have experienced star formation in the last Gyr is a factor of ~1.5 higher than that in their relaxed counterparts. The spectro-photometric results strongly suggest that the interactions that produce the morphological peculiarities also induce low-level recent star formation which, based on the recent literature, are likely to contribute a few percent of the stellar mass over the last 1 Gyr. The catalogue of galaxies that forms the basis of this paper can be obtained at: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~ska/stripe82/skaviraj_stripe82.dat or on request from the author.

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