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M81和Holmberg IX恒星形成区的快速紫外/光学望远镜成像

Swift UV/Optical Telescope Imaging of Star Forming Regions in M81 and Holmberg IX

E. A. Hoversten, C. Gronwall, D. E. Vanden Berk, A. R. Basu-Zych, A. A. Breeveld, P. J. Brown, N. P. M. Kuin, M. J. Page, P. W. A. Roming, M. H. Siegel

摘要:

我们介绍了雨燕紫外/光学望远镜(UVOT)的星系M81和Holmberg IX的图像。我们结合UVOT成像在三个近紫外(NUV)过滤器(uvw 2:1928毫米,uvm 2:2246毫米,和uvw 1:2600毫米)与地面的光学成像从斯隆数字巡天限制两个星系的恒星星族。我们的分析包括三种不同的方法。首先,我们使用NUV成像识别UV恒星形成结,然后对这些源的UV/光学光度学进行SED建模。其次,我们测量了M81的表面亮度轮廓在NUV和光学。最后,我们使用单个像素的SED拟合来映射两个星系的属性。与早期的研究一致,我们发现两个星系中恒星形成的爆发始于约2亿年前,与建议的M81-M82相互作用时间一致。根据其起源为潮汐矮星的理论,我们发现Holmberg IX的光度加权年龄为数亿年。这两个星系最符合银河系尘埃灭绝定律,在2175年有一个显著的隆起。此外,我们描述了一个堆栈的中值滤波技术,用于模拟一个星系内的漫射背景光,和马尔可夫链方法,用于清洁段SExtractor生成的地图。

英文摘要:

We present Swift UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) imaging of the galaxies M81 and Holmberg IX. We combine UVOT imaging in three near ultraviolet (NUV) filters (uvw2: 1928 Å, uvm2: 2246 Å, and uvw1: 2600 Å) with ground based optical imaging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to constrain the stellar populations of both galaxies. Our analysis consists of three different methods. First we use the NUV imaging to identify UV star forming knots and then perform SED modeling on the UV/optical photometry of these sources. Second, we measure surface brightness profiles of the disk of M81 in the NUV and optical. Last we use SED fitting of individual pixels to map the properties of the two galaxies. In agreement with earlier studies we find evidence for a burst in star formation in both galaxies starting ~200 Myr ago coincident with the suggested time of an M81-M82 interaction. In line with theories of its origin as a tidal dwarf we find that the luminosity weighted age of Holmberg IX is a few hundred million years. Both galaxies are best fit by a Milky Way dust extinction law with a prominent 2175 Å bump. In addition, we describe a stacked median filter technique for modeling the diffuse background light within a galaxy, and a Markov chain method for cleaning segment maps generated by SExtractor.

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