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星系群恒星形成率和金属丰度对大尺度环境的依赖

The dependence of galaxy group star formation rates and metallicities on large scale environment

Jillian M. Scudder, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel

摘要:

我们构建了一个样本的75,863恒星形成星系强大的金属丰度和恒星形成率测量斯隆数字巡天数据发布7(SDSS DR 7),从中我们选择了一个干净的样本紧凑组(CG)星系。CG被定义为至少4个星系的紧密配置,否则显然是孤立的。我们的选择结果是112个光谱识别的致密群星系的样本,这些星系可以进一步分为嵌入更大结构(如星系团或大星系团)或真正的孤立系的星系。然后,紧凑的群体作为一个探针大尺度环境对星系的演化的影响,同时保持本地密度固定在高值。我们发现致密星系群中恒星形成星系的恒星形成率在孤立星系和嵌入星系之间有显著的差异。在孤立系中的Galerkin显示出显著增强的SFR,相对于质量和红移匹配的对照样品,在嵌入式系统中没有看到这种趋势。孤立系中的半乳糖醛酸在固定恒星质量为+0.07 \pm 0.03 dex时表现出中值SFR增强。相对于以往研究中发现的局部尺度效应的明显影响,这些对大尺度环境的依赖性在幅度上较小,但我们两个样本之间的SFR差异的显著性限制了大尺度环境的影响为非零。我们发现,无论是孤立的或嵌入式紧凑组样品相对于他们的控制气相星际金属丰度没有显着变化。然而,包括人为偏移的模拟样本表明,我们只对log O/H >0.13 dex(99%置信度)的金属丰度变化敏感,这比以前环境研究中看到的典型金属丰度差异要大得多。

英文摘要:

We construct a sample of 75,863 star forming galaxies with robust metallicity and star formation rate measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), from which we select a clean sample of compact group (CG) galaxies. The CGs are defined to be close configurations of at least 4 galaxies that are otherwise apparently isolated. Our selection results in a sample of 112 spectroscopically identified compact group galaxies, which can be further divided into groups that are either embedded within a larger structure, such as a cluster or large group, or truly isolated systems. The compact groups then serve as a probe into the influence of large scale environment on a galaxy's evolution, while keeping the local density fixed at high values. We find that the star formation rates (SFRs) of star forming galaxies in compact groups are significantly different between isolated and embedded systems. Galaxies in isolated systems show significantly enhanced SFR, relative to a control sample matched in mass and redshift, a trend not seen in the embedded systems. Galaxies in isolated systems exhibit a median SFR enhancement at fixed stellar mass of +0.07 \pm 0.03 dex. These dependences on large scale environment are small in magnitude relative to the apparent influence of local scale effects found in previous studies, but the significance of the difference in SFRs between our two samples constrains the effect of large scale environment to be non-zero. We find no significant change in the gas-phase interstellar metallicity for either the isolated or embedded compact group sample relative to their controls. However, simulated samples that include artificial offsets indicate that we are only sensitive to metallicity changes of log O/H >0.13 dex (at 99% confidence), which is considerably larger than the typical metallicity differences seen in previous environmental studies.

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