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银河系与质量组装(GAMA):L * Galerkin的生命与时代

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Life and Times of L* Galaxies

A. S. G. Robotham, J. Liske, S. P. Driver, A. E. Sansom, I. K. Baldry, A. E. Bauer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J. I. Brown, M. Colless, L. Christodoulou, … 展开作者

A. S. G. Robotham, J. Liske, S. P. Driver, A. E. Sansom, I. K. Baldry, A. E. Bauer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J. I. Brown, M. Colless, L. Christodoulou, M. J. Drinkwater, M. W. Grootes, A. M. Hopkins, L. S. Kelvin, P. Norberg, J. Loveday, S. Phillipps, R. Sharp, E. N. Taylor, R. J. Tuffs

摘要:

在这项工作中,我们详细研究了当地的环境(集团和对)的星系与恒星质量类似的银河系(L * 星系)的影响。一个体积有限的样本6,150星系进行分类,以确定发射功能,形态类型和存在的磁盘。这个样本可以分离星系的特征(例如恒星质量和群晕质量),并确定它们的相互依赖关系。我们观察到星系-星系相互作用在形成星系团晕的演化中起着最重要的作用,晕质量的主要作用是将星系聚集在一起,以鼓励这种相互作用。当成对星系的质量比接近1时,占主导地位的成对星系发现它们的整体恒星形成增强,否则我们观察到的星系与未成对系统中的星系相同。一对星系中的次要星系受其伴星系的影响很大,虽然恒星形成分数相对于同等恒星质量的未配对星系总是被抑制,但当一对星系的质量比增加时,它会变得更低。我们发现,在一般情况下,密切的星系-星系相互作用率下降作为晕质量的函数为一定量的恒星质量。我们发现了一个地方高峰的相互作用银河系恒星质量星系银河晕质量群的证据。低质量晕,特别是本群质量晕,是理解恒星质量单位典型演化路径的重要环境。我们发现令人信服的证据,星系的一致性在两个群体和对,形态类型的一致性是占主导地位的群体,和排放类一致性是占主导地位的对。这表明,群尺度的一致性是许多星系在很长一段时间内相遇的结果,而对一致性是对短暂相互作用的一个相当瞬时的反应。

英文摘要:

In this work we investigate in detail the effects local environment (groups and pairs) has on galaxies with stellar mass similar to the Milky-Way (L* galaxies). A volume limited sample of 6,150 galaxies is classified to determine emission features, morphological type and presence of a disk. This sample allows for characteristics of galaxies to be isolated (e.g. stellar mass and group halo mass), and their codependencies determined. We observe that galaxy-galaxy interactions play the most important role in shaping the evolution within a group halo, the main role of halo mass is in gathering the galaxies together to encourage such interactions. Dominant pair galaxies find their overall star formation enhanced when the pair's mass ratio is close to 1, otherwise we observe the same galaxies as we would in an unpaired system. The minor galaxy in a pair is greatly affected by its companion galaxy, and whilst the star forming fraction is always suppressed relative to equivalent stellar mass unpaired galaxies, it becomes lower still when the mass ratio of a pair system increases. We find that, in general, the close galaxy-galaxy interaction rate drops as a function of halo mass for a given amount of stellar mass. We find evidence of a local peak of interactions for Milky-Way stellar mass galaxies in Milky-Way halo mass groups. Low mass halos, and in particular Local Group mass halos, are an important environment for understanding the typical evolutionary path of a unit of stellar mass. We find compelling evidence for galaxy conformity in both groups and pairs, where morphological type conformity is dominant in groups, and emission class conformity is dominant in pairs. This suggests that group scale conformity is the result of many galaxy encounters over an extended period of time, whilst pair conformity is a fairly instantaneous response to a transitory interaction.

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