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S4G成像中的星系NGC 4244中的厚盘

The thick disk in the galaxy NGC 4244 from S4G imaging

Sébastien Comerón, Johan H. Knapen, Kartik Sheth, Michael W. Regan, Joannah L. Hinz, Armando Gil de Paz, Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Juan-Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, Mar… 展开作者

Sébastien Comerón, Johan H. Knapen, Kartik Sheth, Michael W. Regan, Joannah L. Hinz, Armando Gil de Paz, Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Juan-Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, Mark Seibert, Taehyun Kim, E. Athanassoula, Albert Bosma, Ronald J. Buta, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Luis C. Ho, Benne W. Holwerda, Eija Laurikainen, Heikki Salo, Eva Schinnerer

摘要:

如果厚盘是普遍存在的,并且是盘星系形成和/或演化过程的自然产物,那么所有在哈勃时间的很大一部分中演化的未受干扰的星系都应该有厚盘。晚型螺旋星系NGC 4244是唯一一个没有厚盘的近边星系。利用斯皮策银河系恒星结构巡天(S4 G)的数据,我们已经确定了这个星系中两个圆盘组件的迹象。NGC 4244中平面两侧的光剖面之间的不对称性可以通过星系不完全边缘和薄盘的一定程度的不透明来解释。我们认为,微妙的厚盘是一个有限的长期演化的结果,在NGC 4244,一小部分恒星材料的碎片,建立了星系,或大量的气体吸积后形成的星系。

英文摘要:

If thick disks are ubiquitous and a natural product of disk galaxy formation and/or evolution processes, all undisturbed galaxies which have evolved during a significant fraction of a Hubble time should have a thick disk. The late-type spiral galaxy NGC 4244 has been reported as the only nearby edge-on galaxy without a confirmed thick disk. Using data from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) we have identified signs of two disk components in this galaxy. The asymmetries between the light profiles on both sides of the mid-plane of NGC 4244 can be explained by a combination of the galaxy not being perfectly edge-on and a certain degree of opacity of the thin disk. We argue that the subtlety of the thick disk is a consequence of either a limited secular evolution in NGC 4244, a small fraction of stellar material in the fragments which built the galaxy, or a high amount of gaseous accretion after the formation of the galaxy.

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