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对星系演化的影响:对相互作用与环境

Effects on Galaxy Evolution: Pair Interactions versus Environment

Stephanie Tonnesen, Renyue Cen

摘要:

在一个等级宇宙中,合并可能是一个重要的机制,不仅在增加星系的质量,而且在驱动星系的颜色和形态演化。我们使用了一个高分辨率(0.46 h^{-1} kpc)宇宙学模拟的大约1000个恒星质量大于10^9.6太阳质量的模拟星系的大样本(在多个红移下大约4800个观测值),以确定在什么情况下作为一对星系中的一员会影响z <= 0.2的星系性质。我们确定了引力束缚对,并找到了蓝-蓝、红-红和蓝-红对的相对比例,与观测结果一致(Lin et al. 2010)。对倾向于避免集群和空洞中心的极端环境。虽然成对的星系群可以包括两个都是蓝色的星系,两个都是红色的星系,或者每种颜色中的一个,但在这个领域中,成对星系都是红色的是很罕见的。我们发现,物理结合的对接近250 h^{-1} kpc往往有更高的sSFR比星系人口作为一个整体。然而,一个束缚星系的sSFR相对于一个可比的局部密度环境中的星系(由到第五近邻的距离决定,rho_5),根据局部密度而不同。在高rho_5的区域中,束缚人口有更高比例的恒星形成(蓝色)星系,而在低rho_5区域中,束缚和非束缚星系之间的差异很小。这种对恒星形成分数的影响可能是由与未结合星系相比,结合HI丰富星系的更高分数所驱动的,特别是在高局部密度下。似乎成对的星系对成对星系的恒星形成率有一个增量,但不是压倒性的影响,相比之下,星系整体在星系团中具有较低的sSFR(红色),而在空洞中心具有较高的sSFR(蓝色)。这种趋势主要取决于rho_5。(节略)

英文摘要:

In a hierarchical universe, mergers may be an important mechanism not only in increasing the mass of galaxies but also in driving the color and morphological evolution of galaxies. We use a large sample of ~1000 simulated galaxies of stellar mass greater than 10^9.6 solar masses (for ~4800 observations at multiple redshifts) from a high-res (0.46 h^{-1} kpc) cosmological simulation to determine under what circumstances being a member of a pair influences galaxy properties at z <= 0.2. We identify gravitationally bound pairs, and find a relative fraction of blue-blue, red-red, and blue-red pairs that agrees with observations (Lin et al. 2010). Pairs tend to avoid the extreme environments of clusters and void centres. While pairs in groups can include galaxies that are both blue, both red, or one of each color, in the field it is rare for pair galaxies to both be red. We find that physically bound pairs closer than 250 h^{-1} kpc tend to have higher sSFRs than the galaxy population as a whole. However, the sSFR of a bound galaxy relative to galaxies in a comparable local density environment (determined by the distance to the fifth nearest neighbor, rho_5), differs depending on the local density. In regions of high rho_5 the bound population has a higher fraction of star-forming (bluer) galaxies, whereas there is very little difference between bound and unbound galaxies in low rho_5 regions. This effect on the star-forming fraction may be driven by the higher fraction of bound HI-rich galaxies compared to unbound galaxies, particularly at high local densities. It appears that being in a pair has an incremental, but not overwhelming, effect on the star formation rate of the paired galaxies, compared to the more pronounced trend where galaxies overall have low sSFR (are red) in clusters and higher sSFR (blue) at the centre of voids. This trend depends most strongly on rho_5.(abridged)

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