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光谱胀盘分解:研究透镜星系演化的新方法

Spectroscopic bulge-disc decomposition: a new method to study the evolution of lenticular galaxies

E. J. Johnston, A. Aragón-Salamanca, M. R. Merrifield, A. G. Bedregal

摘要:

提出了一种新的光谱凸起-圆盘分解方法,该方法将二维光谱中的空间光分布逐波长分解为凸起和圆盘分量,从而构造出每个分量的一维光谱。这种方法已被应用于观测样本的9个S 0的天炉座星系团,以获得干净的高质量的光谱,其个别的隆起和盘组件。到目前为止,这种分解只有在应用于具有干净光剖面的星系时才完全成功,因此限制了可以分离成凸起和盘状成分的星系数量。对组成光谱的Lick指数恒星种群分析表明,在那些可以区分凸起和盘的星系中,凸起比盘具有更高的金属丰度和更年轻的恒星星族。这种相关性是一致的图片,其中S 0的形成包括关闭恒星形成的光盘伴随着最后爆发的恒星形成的隆起。空间拟合参数随波长的变化也使我们能够测量各个分量中的近似颜色梯度。这种梯度分别在凸起和圆盘中被检测到,从这个意义上说,红色的光在所有组件中系统地集中在中心。然而,对单个组分测定的吸收线强度的径向变化的搜索显示,它们不存在于绝大多数S 0盘和凸起中。大多数星系的线指数没有梯度,这意味着颜色梯度不能归因于年龄或金属丰度的变化,因此最有可能与不同程度的尘埃遮蔽有关。

英文摘要:

A new method for spectroscopic bulge-disc decomposition is presented, in which the spatial light profile in a two-dimensional spectrum is decomposed wavelength-by-wavelength into bulge and disc components, allowing separate one-dimensional spectra for each component to be constructed. This method has been applied to observations of a sample of nine S0s in the Fornax Cluster in order to obtain clean high-quality spectra of their individual bulge and disc components. So far this decomposition has only been fully successful when applied to galaxies with clean light profiles, consequently limiting the number of galaxies that could be separated into bulge and disc components. Lick index stellar population analysis of the component spectra reveals that in those galaxies where the bulge and disc could be distinguished, the bulges have systematically higher metallicities and younger stellar populations than the discs. This correlation is consistent with a picture in which S0 formation comprises the shutting down of star formation in the disc accompanied by a final burst of star formation in the bulge. The variation in spatial-fit parameters with wavelength also allows us to measure approximate colour gradients in the individual components. Such gradients were detected separately in both bulges and discs, in the sense that redder light is systematically more centrally concentrated in all components. However, a search for radial variations in the absorption line strengths determined for the individual components revealed that they are absent from the vast majority of S0 discs and bulges. The absence of gradients in line indices for most galaxies implies that the colour gradient cannot be attributed to age or metallicity variations, and is therefore most likely associated with varying degrees of obscuration by dust.

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