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孤立旋涡星系样本的经典和伪核球的恒星星族

Stellar populations of classical and pseudo-bulges for a sample of isolated spiral galaxies

Yinghe Zhao

摘要:

本文利用Sloan数字巡天的光谱数据和STARLIGHT程序,给出了孤立的Sb-Sc螺旋星系中75个球的恒星星族综合结果。我们发现,无论是在我们的样本中的经典隆起的伪主要由老恒星星族,与平均质量加权恒星年龄约10 Gyr。虽然一般来说,伪星系球的恒星族群比经典星系球的年轻,但差异并不显著,这表明仅根据它们的恒星星族很难区分伪星系球和经典星系球,至少对于这些孤立星系来说是这样。相对于经典的星系核,伪星系核的恒星形成活动具有更长的时间尺度,表明长期演化在这类系统中更为重要。我们的研究结果还表明,伪隆起有一个较低的恒星速度色散比他们的经典同行,这表明,经典的隆起比伪隆起更多的色散支持。

英文摘要:

In this paper we present the stellar population synthesis results for a sample of 75 bulges in isolated spiral Sb-Sc galaxies, using the spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the STARLIGHT code. We find that both pseudo-bulges and classical bulges in our sample are predominantly composed of old stellar populations, with mean mass-weighted stellar age around 10 Gyr. While the stellar population of pseudo-bulges is, in general, younger than that of classical bulges, the difference is not significant, which indicates that it is hard to distinguish pseudo-bulges from classical bulges, at least for these isolated galaxies, only based on their stellar populations. Pseudo-bulges have star formation activities with relatively longer timescale than classical bulges, indicating that secular evolution is more important in this kind of systems. Our results also show that pseudo-bulges have a lower stellar velocity dispersion than their classical counterparts, which suggests that classical bulges are more dispersion-supported than pseudo-bulges.

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