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星系团及其附近恒星形成猝灭的反投影

Deprojecting the quenching of star formation in and near clusters

G. A. Mamon, S. Mahajan, S. Raychaudhury

摘要:

利用H_delta和Dn 4000作为最近或正在进行的有效恒星形成的示踪剂,分析了268个星团附近的SDSS星系中最近或正在进行的有效恒星形成(GORES)的比例。我们证实了著名的恒星形成的分离,并使用阿贝尔解投影,我们发现,GORES的分数与物理半径线性增加,然后饱和。此外,我们发现,GORES的分数调制的绝对视线速度(ALOSV):在所有投影半径,更高的分数GORES被发现在更高的ALOSV星系。我们使用流体动力学宇宙学模拟中的粒子来模拟GORES分数的这种速度调制,根据它们在z=0的径向相空间中的位置,我们将其分为维里化,下落和后溅。我们最简单的模型,其中的GORES分数只是一个函数的类不产生足够的适合我们观察到的GORES分数在投影相空间。另一方面,假设在每个类别中,GORES的分数线性上升,然后饱和,我们能够找到GORES分数的拟合良好的3D模型。在我们的最佳拟合模型中,与维里锥中的18%和维里球中的13%相比,GORES分别占34%和19%的下落和后溅星系,以及多达11%的维里化星系,可能是由于潮汐诱导的恒星形成的星系-星系相互作用。在维里半径,GORES的后溅人口的分数是更接近的维里化人口比下落星系。这表明,有效的恒星形成的淬灭几乎在通过星团的一次通道中完成。

英文摘要:

Using H_delta and D_n4000 as tracers of recent or ongoing efficient star formation, we analyze the fraction of SDSS galaxies with recent or ongoing efficient star formation (GORES) in the vicinity of 268 clusters. We confirm the well-known segregation of star formation, and using Abel deprojection, we find that the fraction of GORES increases linearly with physical radius and then saturates. Moreover, we find that the fraction of GORES is modulated by the absolute line-of-sight velocity (ALOSV): at all projected radii, higher fractions of GORES are found in higher ALOSV galaxies. We model this velocity modulation of GORES fraction using the particles in a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation, which we classify into virialized, infalling and backsplash according to their position in radial phase space at z=0. Our simplest model, where the GORES fraction is only a function of class does not produce an adequate fit to our observed GORES fraction in projected phase space. On the other hand, assuming that in each class the fraction of GORES rises linearly and then saturates, we are able to find well-fitting 3D models of the fractions of GORES. In our best-fitting models, in comparison with 18% in the virial cone and 13% in the virial sphere, GORES respectively account for 34% and 19% of the infalling and backsplash galaxies, and as much as 11% of the virialized galaxies, possibly as a result of tidally induced star formation from galaxy-galaxy interactions. At the virial radius, the fraction of GORES of the backsplash population is much closer to that of the virialized population than to that of the infalling galaxies. This suggests that the quenching of efficient star formation is nearly complete in a single passage through the cluster.

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