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小质量镓团簇金属富集的环境效应

Environmental Effects on the Metal Enrichment of Low Mass Galaxies in Nearby Clusters

Vasiliki Petropoulou, Jose Manuel Vilchez, Jorge Iglesias-Paramo

摘要:

在本文中,我们研究了低质量恒星形成(SF)星系的化学历史的本地宇宙星系团后发座,A1367,A779和A634。这项工作的目的是寻找环境对这些星系化学演化的影响。星系的化学演化与恒星形成历史(SFH)以及与环境的气体交换有关,众所周知,低质量星系是易受环境过程影响的系统。在我们的研究中,我们使用了SDSS-III DR 8的光谱。我们研究了星系团星系的质量-金属丰度关系,发现了定义明确的序列。这些序列的斜率,在低质量的星系团和星系在大集群中心的距离,遵循最近的流体动力学模型的预测。一个平坦的斜坡已被观察到的星系位于核心的两个更大的集群的样本,主要是在后发座,这表明集群环境的SF星系的化学演化的印记应该是敏感的星系质量和主机集群质量。后发座和A1367星系的HI气体含量表明,低质量SF星系,位于这些星系团的核心,受到严重的影响,冲压压力剥离。根据流体动力学模拟,在致密环境中观察到的低质量星系金属含量的质量依赖性增强似乎是合理的。这种增强的金属富集可以产生的组合效应,如风的再吸积,由于压力coinfinement的集群内介质(ICM),和截断的气体入流,作为一个结果的冲压压力剥离。因此,ICM的性质应该在团簇中低质量星系的化学演化中发挥重要作用。

英文摘要:

In this paper we study the chemical history of low-mass star-forming (SF) galaxies in the local Universe clusters Coma, A1367, A779, and A634. The aim of this work is to search for the imprint of the environment on the chemical evolution of these galaxies. Galaxy chemical evolution is linked to the star formation history (SFH), as well as to the gas interchange with the environment, and low-mass galaxies are well known to be vulnerable systems to environmental processes affecting both these parameters. For our study we have used spectra from the SDSS-III DR8. We have examined the mass-metallicity relation of cluster galaxies finding well defined sequences. The slope of these sequences, for galaxies in low-mass clusters and galaxies at large cluster-centric distances, follows the predictions of recent hydrodynamic models. A flattening of this slope has been observed for galaxies located in the core of the two more massive clusters of the sample, principally in Coma, suggesting that the imprint of the cluster environment on the chemical evolution of SF galaxies should be sensitive to both the galaxy mass and the host cluster mass. The HI gas content of Coma and A1367 galaxies indicate that low-mass SF galaxies, located at the core of these clusters, have been severely affected by ram-pressure stripping. The observed mass-dependent enhancement of the metal content of low-mass galaxies in dense environments seems plausible, according to hydrodynamic simulations. This enhanced metal enrichment could be produced by the combination of effects such as wind reaccretion, due to pressure cofinement by the intra-cluster medium (ICM), and the truncation of gas infall, as a result of the ram-pressure stripping. Thus, the properties of the ICM should play an important role in the chemical evolution of low-mass galaxies in clusters.

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