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SDSS DR7中的星系形态、光度和环境

Galaxy morphology, luminosity and, environment in the SDSS DR7

E. Tempel, E. Saar, L. J. Liivamägi, A. Tamm, J. Einasto, M. Einasto, V. Müller

摘要:

通过对不同形态类型和颜色的星系在不同环境密度水平下的光度函数(LF)的研究,探讨了环境对星系演化的影响。我们分别为不同形态(螺旋和椭圆)和不同颜色(红色和蓝色)的星系构建LF使用斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的数据,校正固有吸收的光度。我们使用全球光度密度场来定义不同的环境,并分析星系形态和颜色的环境依赖性。利用平滑Bootstrap方法计算了亮度函数的置信区域。我们发现一个强烈的环境依赖性的LF椭圆星系。旋涡星系的LF几乎与环境无关,表明旋涡星系形成机制在不同环境下是相似的。内禀尘埃的吸收影响旋涡星系LF的亮端。经过衰减校正后,最亮的螺旋星系仍然比最亮的椭圆星系少0.5等,除了在密度最小的环境中,螺旋星系在每个光度下都占主导地位。尽管SDSS调查的范围,单一的丰富的超星系团的影响是目前在银河系LF的dennial环境。

英文摘要:

We study the influence of the environment on the evolution of galaxies by investigating the luminosity function (LF) of galaxies of different morphological types and colours at different environmental density levels. We construct the LFs separately for galaxies of different morphology (spiral and elliptical) and of different colours (red and blue) using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), correcting the luminosities for the intrinsic absorption. We use the global luminosity density field to define different environments, and analyse the environmental dependence of galaxy morphology and colour. The smoothed bootstrap method is used to calculate confidence regions of the derived luminosity functions. We find a strong environmental dependency for the LF of elliptical galaxies. The LF of spiral galaxies is almost environment independent, suggesting that spiral galaxy formation mechanisms are similar in different environments. Absorption by the intrinsic dust influences the bright-end of the LF of spiral galaxies. After attenuation correction, the brightest spiral galaxies are still about 0.5 mag less luminous than the brightest elliptical galaxies, except in the least dense environment, where spiral galaxies dominate the LF at every luminosity. Despite the extent of the SDSS survey, the influence of single rich superclusters is present in the galactic LF of the densest environment.

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