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加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜遗产巡天中湿合并和干合并的空间密度演化

The Space Density Evolution of Wet and Dry Mergers in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey

Richard C. Y. Chou, Carrie R. Bridge, Roberto G. Abraham

摘要:

我们分析了来自加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜遗产巡天的1298个红移达到z=0.7的合并星系,这些星系取自Bridge等人(2010)提出的目录。通过分析这些系统的内部颜色,我们表明,所谓的湿和干合并演变在不同的意义上,并量化这些系统的空间密度。湿合并的局部空间密度与干合并的局部空间密度基本相同。总的合并率的演变是适度的z ~ 0.7,虽然湿和干种群有不同的进化趋势。在较高的红移,干合并对总合并星系人口的贡献较小,但这被湿合并贡献的大致相等的增加所抵消。通过比较早型星系的质量密度函数和合并系统的相应质量密度函数,我们发现,并不是所有质量最高的主要合并(M_stellar > 10^11 M_solar)最终都会产生质量最大的早型星系,除非合并的时间尺度比通常假设的要长得多。另一方面,如果我们假设只有质量较小的早型星系通过合并形成,通常假设的合并时间尺度为~ 0.5-1 Gyr,则与数据相当一致。由于中低质量的椭圆星系比大质量的椭圆星系要常见10 ~ 100倍,所以早期类型星系起源的层次解释可能对绝大多数早期类型星系是正确的,即使对大质量的星系是不正确的。

英文摘要:

We analyze 1298 merging galaxies with redshifts up to z=0.7 from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, taken from the catalog presented in Bridge et al. (2010). By analyzing the internal colors of these systems, we show that so-called wet and dry mergers evolve in different senses, and quantify the space densities of these systems. The local space density of wet mergers is essentially dentical to the local space density of dry mergers. The evolution in the total merger rate is modest out to z ~ 0.7, although the wet and dry populations have different evolutionary trends. At higher redshifts dry mergers make a smaller contribution to the total merging galaxy population, but this is offset by a roughly equivalent increase in the contribution from wet mergers. By comparing the mass density function of early-type galaxies to the corresponding mass density function for merging systems, we show that not all the major mergers with the highest masses (M_stellar > 10^11 M_solar) will end up with the most massive early-type galaxies, unless the merging timescale is dramatically longer than that usually assumed. On the other hand, the usually-assumed merging timescale of ~ 0.5-1 Gyr is quite consistent with the data if we suppose that only less massive early-type galaxies form via mergers. Since low-intermediate mass ellipticals are 10 --100 times more common than their most massive counterparts, the hierarchical explanation for the origin of early-type galaxies may be correct for the vast majority of early-types, even if incorrect for the most massive ones.

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