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酒吧振兴凸起?来自恒星星族分析的证据

Bars rejuvenating bulges? Evidence from stellar population analysis

Paula Coelho, Dimitri A. Gadotti

摘要:

我们获得了恒星的年龄和金属丰度通过光谱拟合的样本的575隆起的光谱从斯隆数字巡天。Gadotti(2009 b)详细研究了星系的结构特性,样本包含251个带棒星系的凸起。使用整个样本,其中星系恒星质量分布的酒吧和unbarred星系是相似的,我们发现,在酒吧和unbarred星系的凸起占据相似的轨迹在年龄与金属丰度平面。然而,在棒星系的球年龄分布显示了过剩的人口小于~ 4 Gyr,相比,在unbarred星系的球。Kolmogorov-Smirnov统计量证实年龄分布不同,显著性为99.94%。如果我们选择的子样本的球球恒星质量分布是类似的酒吧和无酒吧星系,这种多余的消失与星系的球球质量log M < 10.1 M_Sun,而对于更大的星系,我们发现一个双峰球年龄分布的酒吧星系只有,对应于两个正常分布的平均年龄为10.4和4.7 Gyr。我们还发现两倍的活动星系核之间的酒吧星系相比,无酒吧星系,低质量的凸起。通过结合大量高质量的数据和复杂的图像和光谱分析,我们能够找到证据表明,酒吧的存在影响的平均恒星年龄的凸起。这有力地支持了棒在星系中心触发恒星形成活动的模型。

英文摘要:

We obtained stellar ages and metallicities via spectrum fitting for a sample of 575 bulges with spectra available from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The structural properties of the galaxies have been studied in detail in Gadotti (2009b) and the sample contains 251 bulges in galaxies with bars. Using the whole sample, where galaxy stellar mass distributions for barred and unbarred galaxies are similar, we find that bulges in barred and unbarred galaxies occupy similar loci in the age vs. metallicity plane. However, the distribution of bulge ages in barred galaxies shows an excess of populations younger than ~ 4 Gyr, when compared to bulges in unbarred galaxies. Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics confirm that the age distributions are different with a significance of 99.94%. If we select sub-samples for which the bulge stellar mass distributions are similar for barred and unbarred galaxies, this excess vanishes for galaxies with bulge mass log M < 10.1 M_Sun while for more massive galaxies we find a bimodal bulge age distribution for barred galaxies only, corresponding to two normal distributions with mean ages of 10.4 and 4.7 Gyr. We also find twice as much AGN among barred galaxies, as compared to unbarred galaxies, for low-mass bulges. By combining a large sample of high quality data with sophisticated image and spectral analysis, we are able to find evidence that the presence of bars affect the mean stellar ages of bulges. This lends strong support to models in which bars trigger star formation activity in the centers of galaxies.

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