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有条星系和无条星系中的环形星形成速率

Ring Star Formation Rates in Barred and Nonbarred Galaxies

R. D. Grouchy, R. J. Buta, H. Salo, E. Laurikainen

摘要:

无棒环星系是相对正常的星系,尽管缺乏强大的棒,但仍显示出明亮的恒星形成环。这种形态是有趣的,因为人们普遍认为,一个典型的环形成时,材料收集附近的共振,成立了一个酒吧或酒吧样扰动的模式速度。我们的目标是在这篇论文中,以检查是否环星的形成性质是有关的非轴对称重力位一般。为此,我们获得了16个无棒SA星系和4个有环弱棒SAB星系的Hα发射线图像,并计算了Hα发射线通量和恒星形成率。为了进行比较,我们结合我们的观察与重新分析以前发表的数据,5个SA,7个SAB和15个SB星系的环,其中三个是重复的,从我们的样本。有了这些数据,我们研究什么样的作用,酒吧可能发挥在恒星形成过程中的环。与棒环星系相比,非棒环星系的内环SFR和Hα+[N ii]等效宽度随绝对蓝星等、修正的哈勃类型和其他参数的变化范围和趋势相似。总体上,在我们的小样本中,内环的恒星形成性质,不包括H ii区域的分布,与环的形状和棒的强度无关。我们确认内环的轴比与最大相对引力Q_g相关;然而,如果我们考虑所有环,当使用环半径Q_r处的局部杆强迫时,发现更好的相关性。个别情况下进行了描述和其他相关性进行了讨论。通过研究这些星系的物理性质,我们希望更好地了解它们在哈勃序列中的位置,以及它们如何在没有杆的驱动力的情况下形成环。

英文摘要:

Nonbarred ringed galaxies are relatively normal galaxies showing bright rings of star formation in spite of lacking a strong bar. This morphology is interesting because it is generally accepted that a typical ring forms when material collects near a resonance, set up by the pattern speed of a bar or bar-like perturbation. Our goal in this paper is to examine whether the ring star formation properties are related to the non-axisymmetric gravity potential in general. For this purpose, we obtained Hα emission line images and calculated the line fluxes and star formation rates (SFRs) for 16 nonbarred SA galaxies and four weakly barred SAB galaxies with rings. For comparison, we combine our observations with a re-analysis of previously published data on five SA, seven SAB, and 15 SB galaxies with rings, three of which are duplicates from our sample. With these data, we examine what role a bar may play in the star formation process in rings. Compared to barred ringed galaxies, we find that the inner ring SFRs and Hα+[N ii] equivalent widths in nonbarred ringed galaxies show a similar range and trend with absolute blue magnitude, revised Hubble type, and other parameters. On the whole, the star formation properties of inner rings, excluding the distribution of H ii regions, are independent of the ring shapes and the bar strength in our small samples. We confirm that the deprojected axis ratios of inner rings correlate with maximum relative gravitational force Q_g; however, if we consider all rings, a better correlation is found when local bar forcing at the radius of the ring, Q_r, is used. Individual cases are described and other correlations are discussed. By studying the physical properties of these galaxies, we hope to gain a better understanding of their placement in the scheme of the Hubble sequence and how they formed rings without the driving force of a bar.

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