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星系动物园:用本地后星暴星系建造红色序列的低质量端

Galaxy Zoo: building the low-mass end of the red sequence with local post-starburst galaxies

O. Ivy Wong, K. Schawinski, S. Kaviraj, K. L. Masters, R. C. Nichol, C. Lintott, W. C. Keel, D. Darg, S. P. Bamford, D. Andreescu, P. Murray, M. J. Raddick, A. … 展开作者

O. Ivy Wong, K. Schawinski, S. Kaviraj, K. L. Masters, R. C. Nichol, C. Lintott, W. C. Keel, D. Darg, S. P. Bamford, D. Andreescu, P. Murray, M. J. Raddick, A. Szalay, D. Thomas, J. VandenBerg

摘要:

利用斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的光度和光谱观测资料以及银河动物园项目的观测结果,对局部星暴后星系(PSG)进行了研究。我们发现,我们的大多数本地PSG人口既没有早期也没有晚型的形态,但占据了一个明确的空间内的颜色恒星质量图,最值得注意的是,低质量的“绿谷”的过渡质量被认为是低质量的恒星形成星系和高质量的被动演化的膨胀主导星系之间的质量分工。我们的分析表明,这是可能的,本地PSG将迅速转变为“红色”,低质量的早期型星系的恒星形态的“绿色”PSG在很大程度上类似于早期型星系在相同的质量范围内。我们建议,目前的人口PSG代表人口的星系之间的恒星形成和被动发展阶段迅速过渡。随后,一旦当前的年轻恒星群消失,恒星不再形成,这些PSG将有助于“红色序列”的低质量端的建立。这些结果与“缩小”的想法是一致的,即较小星系的形成发生在较晚的时期。

英文摘要:

We present a study of local post-starburst galaxies (PSGs) using the photometric and spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the results from the Galaxy Zoo project. We find that the majority of our local PSG population have neither early- nor late- type morphologies but occupy a well-defined space within the colour-stellar mass diagram, most notably, the low-mass end of the "green valley" below the transition mass thought to be the mass division between low-mass star-forming galaxies and high-mass passively-evolving bulge-dominated galaxies. Our analysis suggests that it is likely that a local PSG will quickly transform into "red", low-mass early-type galaxies as the stellar morphologies of the "green" PSGs largely resemble that of the early-type galaxies within the same mass range. We propose that the current population of PSGs represents a population of galaxies which is rapidly transitioning between the star-forming and the passively-evolving phases. Subsequently, these PSGs will contribute towards the build-up of the low-mass end of the "red sequence" once the current population of young stars fade and stars are no longer being formed. These results are consistent with the idea of "downsizing" where the build-up of smaller galaxies occurs at later epochs.

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