arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 1301.1983astro-ph.CO
收藏

两个z=3.8射电星系4C 41.17和TN J2007-1316中的星暴和老恒星星族

Starburst and old stellar populations in two z=3.8 radio galaxies 4C 41.17 and TN J2007-1316

Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange, Guillaume Drouart, Carlos De Breuck, Joel Vernet, Nicholas Seymour, Domenika Wylezalek, Matthew Lehnert, Nicole Nesvadba, Michel Fioc

摘要:

采用新的演化程序Pegase.3对两个z=3.8的射电星系4C 41.17和TN J2007-1316的连续光学-Spitzer-Herschel-submm光谱能量分布(SED)进行了光谱合成。这两个星系都是从赫歇尔射电星系演化计划中选出的,因为它们对AGN的贡献很微弱,而且它们的热光度有很大的恒星贡献。Pegase.3相干地模拟了恒星光度到尘埃排放的再处理,允许按类型构建UV到IR子毫米库。这些模板允许通过使用z=0的宇宙学和演化校正模板来预测观测者坐标系中红移z处的SED。我们的最佳拟合是两个不同的演化恒星星族的总和:i)在光学和远红外峰形成后约30万年观察到的非常大的恒星爆发ii)中红外斯皮策数据显示的一个显着更古老(约1亿年)的大质量早期型人口。活动星系核的辐射大致符合一个热模型。这些结果证实,在高z射电星系中的许多恒星星族已经由z=4的大质量(几千亿太阳质量)恒星爆发形成,证实了以前的K-z图解释。富含气体的合并和/或喷云相互作用有利于引发激烈的恒星形成,可能与这些射电星系的大质量超级黑洞有关。这些多个恒星星族可能是亮红外射电星系总体上的一个普遍特征,并强烈地限制了质量积累和星系形成模型。

英文摘要:

The new evolutionary code Pegase.3 is used for the spectral synthesis of continuous optical-Spitzer-Herschel-submm spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of two z=3.8 radio galaxies 4C 41.17 and TN J2007-1316. Both galaxies are selected from the Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution Project for their faint AGN contribution and because they show evidence of a large stellar contribution to their bolometric luminosity. Pegase.3 coherently models the reprocessing of the stellar luminosity to dust emission, allowing to build UV to IR-submm libraries by types. These templates allow to predict SEDs at redshifts z in the observer's frame by using z=0 templates corrected for cosmology and evolution. Our best fits are a sum of two distinct evolving stellar populations: i) a very massive starburst observed ~30 Myrs after formation from optical and far-IR peaks ii) a significantly older (~1Gyr old) massive early-type population revealed from mid-IR Spitzer data. The AGN emission fits a roughly thermal model. These results confirm that many of the stellar populations in high-z radio galaxies were already formed by massive (a few thousands of billion solar masses) starbursts at z=4, confirming the previous K-z diagram interpretation. Gas-rich mergers and/or jet-cloud interactions are favored for triggering the intense star formation, possibly in relation with massive super black holes of these radio galaxies. These multiple stellar populations may be a generic feature of the luminous infrared radio galaxy population as a whole and strongly constrain mass accumulation and galaxy formation models.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑