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作为混杂关联的早型Galerkin基平面

The Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies as a Confounding Correlation

Didier Fraix-Burnet

摘要:

早型星系具有许多标度关系。其中之一,所谓的基本平面是三个变量之间相对紧密的相关性,尽管经过多年的深入研究,仍然无法获得清晰的物理理解。在这里,我们表明,基本平面的三个变量之间的相关性可以是另一个参数影响所有的效果的人工制品,使基本平面可以被理解为一个混杂的相关性。事实上,星系物理学及其演化的复杂性表明,主要的混淆参数必须与星系达到的多样化水平有关。因此,许多星系的标度关系可能是演化相关的。

英文摘要:

Early-type galaxies are characterized by many scaling relations. One of them, the so-called fundamental plane is a relatively tight correlation between three variables, and has resisted a clear physical understanding despite many years of intensive research. Here, we show that the correlation between the three variables of the fundamental plane can be the artifact of the effect of another parameter influencing all, so that the fundamental plane may be understood as a confounding correlation. Indeed, the complexity of the physics of galaxies and of their evolution suggests that the main confounding parameter must be related to the level of diversification reached by the galaxies. Consequently, many scaling relations for galaxies are probably evolutionary correlations.

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