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在z=0.37的超群的S0星系中寻找年轻恒星

A Search for Young Stars in the S0 Galaxies of a Super-Group at z=0.37

Dennis W. Just, Dennis Zaritsky, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Stefan J. Kautsch, John Moustakas

摘要:

我们分析GALEX紫外线数据的系统的四个引力约束组在z=0.37,SG 1120,这是注定要合并成一个后发座星系团的z=0,研究星系的性质可能会改变在集群组装。在38个目视分类的S 0星系中,质量在log(M_*)~10-11之间,我们在NUV通道中只探测到一个强成星的S 0星系,它是最亮的紫外源,测量的红移将其定位在SG 1120。将未被探测到的S 0星系(通常位于SG 1120的光学红色序列上或附近)堆叠在一起,仍然无法探测到NUV/FUV(<2 sigma)。利用我们在NUV波段的极限,我们得出结论,对于快速截断的恒星形成速率,恒星形成至少在 * ~0.1至0.7 Gyr前停止,这取决于截断前恒星暴增的强度。随着恒星形成历史在一系列时间尺度上呈指数级下降,我们排除了最近的恒星形成在很大的年龄范围内。我们的结论是,如果S 0的形成涉及到显着的恒星形成,它发生之前的群体在目前的预组装阶段。因此,似乎S 0的形成更有可能主要发生在集群环境之外。

英文摘要:

We analyze GALEX UV data for a system of four gravitationally-bound groups at z=0.37, SG1120, which is destined to merge into a Coma-mass cluster by z=0, to study how galaxy properties may change during cluster assembly. Of the 38 visually-classified S0 galaxies, with masses ranging from log(M_*)~10-11, we detect only one in the NUV channel, a strongly star-forming S0 that is the brightest UV source with a measured redshift placing it in SG1120. Stacking the undetected S0 galaxies (which generally lie on or near the optical red-sequence of SG1120) still results in no NUV/FUV detection (<2 sigma). Using our limit in the NUV band, we conclude that for a rapidly truncating star formation rate, star formation ceased *at least* ~0.1 to 0.7 Gyr ago, depending on the strength of the starburst prior to truncation. With an exponentially declining star-formation history over a range of time-scales, we rule out recent star-formation over a wide range of ages. We conclude that if S0 formation involves significant star formation, it occurred well before the groups were in this current pre-assembly phase. As such, it seems that S0 formation is even more likely to be predominantly occurring outside of the cluster environment.

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