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星系团颜色-星等关系发展的化学效应

Chemical effects on the development of the colour-magnitude relation of cluster galaxies

Noelia Jiménez, Sofía A. Cora, Lilia P. Bassino, Analía Smith Castelli, Tomás Tecce

摘要:

本文研究了团星系色星等关系(CMR)的发展。这项研究是使用一个星系形成和演化的半分析模型进行的,该模型与一个不同质量的模拟星系团样本相结合,加强了Jiménez等人(2009)得出的结论。我们比较了模拟和观察到的CMR在不同的颜色幅度平面,发现在所有情况下,一个非常好的协议。这表明模型参数被正确调整,给出了星系主要属性的准确值,可供我们进一步研究使用。在目前的工作中,我们进行了统计分析的相对贡献的恒星质量和金属丰度的星系沿CMR的不同过程中涉及到它们的形成和演化(即静止恒星形成,盘不稳定事件和星系合并)。我们的研究结果表明,在低红移的小的和主要的干合并的混合是相关的最明亮的星系在CMR的演化。这些过程使低金属量的恒星成为残余星系,从而增加了星系的质量,而没有显着改变它们的颜色。这些结果被发现的所有模拟集群,支持的想法一致的观测结果的CMR的普遍性。

英文摘要:

We investigate the development of the colour-magnitude re- lation (CMR) of cluster galaxies. This study is carried out using a semi- analytic model of galaxy formation and evolution coupled to a sample of simulated galaxy clusters of different masses, reinforcing the conclusions reached by Jiménez et al. (2009). We compare both simulated and obeserved CMRs in different colour-magnitude planes, finding a very good agreement in all cases. This indicates that model parameters are correctly tuned, giving accurate values of the main properties of galaxies for further use in our study. In the present work, we perform a statistical analysis of the relative contribution to the stellar mass and metallicity of galaxies along the CMR by the different processes involved in their formation and evolution (i.e. quiescent star formation, disc instability events and galaxy mergers). Our results show that a mix of minor and major dry mergers at low redshifts is relevant in the evolution of the most luminous galaxies in the CMR. These processes contribute with low metallicity stars to the remnant galaxies, thus increasing the galaxy masses without significantly altering their colours. These results are found for all simulated clusters, supporting the idea of the universality of the CMR in agreement with observational results.

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