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亮后发座星系团的恒星星族

The Stellar Populations of Bright Coma Cluster Galaxies

James Price, Steve Phillipps, Avon Huxor, Russell J Smith, John R Lucey

摘要:

本文利用SDSS DR 7光谱仪研究了356个明亮的$M_{r}$ $\leq$-19后发座星系团成员的恒星星族。对于静止星系,我们发现CN 2,C4668,Mgb和H $β$的吸收线指数强度和速度色散($σ$)之间有很强的相关性。在被动星系H $β$、Mgb和C4668中发现了显著的团心径向梯度。我们使用最先进的恒星星族模型\citep{schiavon07}和测量的吸收线指数来推断每个星系的单恒星种群等效(SSP等效)年龄和[Fe/H],以及它们的[Mg/Fe],[C/Fe],[N/Fe]和[Ca/Fe]丰度模式。对于被动星系子样本,我们找到了强有力的证据“考古缩小”,年龄$\propto σ^{0.90 \pm 0.06}$。我们恢复了显着的集群中心径向恒星星族梯度的被动样品在SSP等效年龄,[Mg/Fe],[C/Fe]和[N/Fe]。这些趋势是在这个意义上说,在固定的速度色散,被动星系的外围星系的24% $\pm$ 9%年轻,较低的[Mg/Fe]和[N/Fe],但较高的[C/Fe]比在集群的核心。我们发现没有显着增加集群为中心的径向恒星星族梯度时,拟合到一个被动的星系子集选择覆盖集群核心和西南地区,其中包含NGC 4839子群。因此,我们得出结论,NGC 4839的落区不是唯一的,至少在明亮星系的恒星星族方面。我们推测,最近的其他研究所看到的更明显的集群为中心的径向梯度可能是由于他们的样本所跨越的光度范围,而不是有限的方位角覆盖的集群。(节略)

英文摘要:

In this paper we study the stellar populations of 356 bright, $M_{r}$ $\leq$ -19, Coma cluster members located in a 2 degree field centred on the cluster core using SDSS DR7 spectroscopy. For the quiescent galaxies we find strong correlations between absorption line index strength and velocity dispersion ($σ$) for CN2, C4668, Mgb and H$β$. We find significant cluster-centric radial gradients in H$β$, Mgb and C4668 for the passive galaxies. We use state-of-the-art stellar population models \citep{schiavon07} and the measured absorption line indices to infer the single-stellar-population-equivalent (SSP-equivalent) age and [Fe/H] for each galaxy, as well as their abundance patterns in terms of [Mg/Fe], [C/Fe], [N/Fe] and [Ca/Fe]. For the passive galaxy subsample we find strong evidence for "archaeological downsizing", with age $\propto σ^{0.90 \pm 0.06}$. We recover significant cluster-centric radial stellar population gradients for the passive sample in SSP-equivalent age, [Mg/Fe], [C/Fe] and [N/Fe]. These trends are in the sense that, at fixed velocity dispersion, passive galaxies on the outskirts of the cluster are 24% $\pm$ 9% younger with lower [Mg/Fe] and [N/Fe] but higher [C/Fe] than those in the cluster core. We find no significant increase in cluster-centric radial stellar population gradients when fitting to a passive galaxy subset selected to cover the cluster core and South-West region, which contains the NGC 4839 subgroup. Thus we conclude that the NGC 4839 in-fall region is not unique, at least in terms of the stellar populations of bright galaxies. We speculate that the more pronounced cluster-centric radial gradients seen by other recent studies may be attributed to the luminosity range spanned by their samples, rather than to limited azimuthal coverage of the cluster.(abridged)

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