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环境影响早型星系的恒星形成历史吗?

Does environment affect the star formation histories of early-type galaxies?

Ignacio Ferreras, Anna Pasquali, Ben Rogers

摘要:

星系中恒星星族的差异可以用来量化环境对恒星形成历史的影响。我们的目标样本的早期类型的星系从斯隆数字巡天在两个不同的环境制度:密切对和一般的样本,环境是由其主机暗物质晕的质量来衡量。我们应用基于主成分分析的盲源分离技术,从中我们定义了两个相关的参数,分别与平均恒星年龄(eta)和最近的恒星形成(zeta)从光谱能量分布的星系。我们发现,环境留下的光谱上的二阶印记,而本地的属性-如内部速度色散-服从一个更强的相关性与恒星年龄分布。

英文摘要:

Differences in the stellar populations of galaxies can be used to quantify the effect of environment on the star formation history. We target a sample of early-type galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in two different environmental regimes: close pairs and a general sample where environment is measured by the mass of their host dark matter halo. We apply a blind source separation technique based on principal component analysis, from which we define two parameters that correlate, respectively, with the average stellar age (eta) and with the presence of recent star formation (zeta) from the spectral energy distribution of the galaxy. We find that environment leaves a second order imprint on the spectra, whereas local properties - such as internal velocity dispersion - obey a much stronger correlation with the stellar age distribution.

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