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早型镓的形成和演化:来自宇宙化学动力学模拟的光谱光度学

Formation and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies: Spectro-Photometry from Cosmo-Chemo-Dynamical Simulations

Rosaria Tantalo, Simonetta Chinellato, Emiliano Merlin, Lorenzo Piovan, Cesare Chiosi

摘要:

现代天体物理学的主要挑战之一是了解星系的起源和演化,特别是明亮的大质量早型星系(ETG)。因此,这些星系很可能是早期宇宙中星系演化、恒星形成和金属富集的良好探针。在这种情况下,它是非常重要的,以建立一个诊断工具,能够结合的结果从化学动力学N体TSPH(NB-TSPH)模拟ETG与那些分光光度的人口合成和演化,使所有的关键属性的星系可以调查。本文的主要目标是提供一个初步的验证软件包,然后将其应用于观测数据的分析。使用的星系模型是由帕多瓦小组在两种不同的宇宙学场景中计算的:SCDM和Lambda CDM。对于这些模型,我们恢复了它们在整个宇宙历史中的分光光度演化。我们计算了星系的星等和颜色,以及它们随红移的演化,并对我们处理的模型星系进行了演化和宇宙学修正,并将它们与COSMOS和GOODS数据库中的ETG数据进行了比较。从我们掌握的动力学模拟和光度模型开始,我们创建了合成图像,从中推导出结构和形态参数。理论结果与SDSS数据库中ETG的观测数据进行了比较。不同宇宙学场景的模拟颜色遵循COSMOS和GOODS星系所示的一般趋势。在所考虑的红移范围内,所有的模拟颜色都很好地再现了观测数据。

英文摘要:

One of the major challenges in modern astrophysics is to understand the origin and the evolution of galaxies, the bright, massive early type galaxies (ETGs) in particular. Therefore, these galaxies are likely to be good probes of galaxy evolution, star formation and, metal enrichment in the early Universe. In this context it is very important to set up a diagnostic tool able to combine results from chemo-dynamical N-Body-TSPH (NB-TSPH) simulations of ETGs with those of spectro-photometric population synthesis and evolution so that all key properties of galaxies can be investigated. The main goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary validation of the software package before applying it to the analysis of observational data. The galaxy models in use where calculated by the Padova group in two different cosmological scenarios: the SCDM, and the Lambda CDM. For these models, we recover their spectro-photometric evolution through the entire history of the Universe. We computed magnitudes and colors and their evolution with the redshift along with the evolutionary and cosmological corrections for the model galaxies at our disposal, and compared them with data for ETGs taken from the COSMOS and the GOODS databases. Starting from the dynamical simulations and photometric models at our disposal, we created synthetic images from which we derived the structural and morphological parameters. The theoretical results are compared with observational data of ETGs selected form the SDSS database. The simulated colors for the different cosmological scenarios follow the general trend shown by galaxies of the COSMOS and GOODS. Within the redshift range considered, all the simulated colors reproduce the observational data quite well.

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