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室女室女星系团星系团矮椭圆星系的SAURON研究:运动学和恒星星族

A SAURON study of dwarf elliptical galaxies in the Virgo Cluster: kinematics and stellar populations

Agnieszka Ryś, Jesús Falcón-Barroso

摘要:

矮椭圆星系是附近星系团中最常见的星系类型;即便如此,它们的许多基本性质仍有待量化。在这里,我们提出了我们的研究结果,4室女座矮椭圆获得的SAURON积分场单位的威廉赫歇尔望远镜(西班牙拉帕尔马)。虽然传统的长缝观测可能会错过更复杂的运动学特征,但使用SAURON,我们能够在二维空间中研究运动学和恒星星族,获得更详细的质量分布和恒星形成历史。即使在如此小的样本中也可以看到,dE不是一个统一的群,不仅在形态上,而且就其运动学和恒星星族性质而言。我们发现存在的子结构,不同程度的扁平化和旋转,以及年龄和金属丰度梯度的差异。我们确认,我们的两个星系显着扁平,但非旋转的对象,这使得他们可能三轴系统。矮星系群和巨星系群之间的比较表明,dEs可能是Es的低质量延伸,因为它们似乎遵循相同的质量趋势。然而,dEs作为Es的祖先似乎不太可能,因为我们已经看到dEs具有低得多的丰度比。

英文摘要:

Dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs) are the most common galaxy type in nearby galaxy clusters; even so, many of their basic properties have yet to be quantified. Here we present the results of our study of 4 Virgo dwarf ellipticals obtained with the SAURON integral field unit on the William Herschel Telescope (La Palma, Spain). While traditional long-slit observations are likely to miss more complicated kinematic features, with SAURON we are able to study both kinematics and stellar populations in two dimensions, obtaining a much more detailed view of the mass distribution and star formation histories. What is visible even in such a small sample is that dEs are not a uniform group, not only morphologically, but also as far as their kinematic and stellar population properties are concerned. We find the presence of substructures, varying degrees of flattening and of rotation, as well as differences in age and metallicity gradients. We confirm that two of our galaxies are significantly flattened, yet non-rotating objects, which makes them likely triaxial systems. The comparison between the dwarf and the giant groups shows that dEs could be a low-mass extension of Es in the sense that they do seem to follow the same trends with mass. However, dEs as progenitors of Es seem less likely as we have seen that dEs have much lower abundance ratios.

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