The oxygen abundance of the outer disk of the nearby S0 galaxy NGC 404, a prototypical early-type galaxy with extended star formation, has been derived from the analysis of HII region spectra. The high mean value found, 12+log(O/H)=8.6 \pm 0.1, equivalent to approximately 80% of the solar value, argues against both the previously proposed cold accretion and recent merger scenarios as viable mechanisms for the assembly of the star-forming gas. The combination of the present-day gas metallicity with the published star formation history of this galaxy favors a model in which the recent star forming activity represents the declining tail of the original one.
Sizes, Half-Mass Densities, and Mass Functions of Star Clusters in the Merger Remnant NGC 1316: Clues to the Fate of Second-Generation Globular Clusters
The superluminous supernova SN 2017egm in the nearby galaxy NGC 3191: a metal-rich environment can support a typical SLSN evolution
在红移z=0.03时,最近发现的SN 2017 egm是迄今为止距离最近的I型超亮超新星(SLSN),也是第一个靠近大质量螺旋星系(NGC 3191)中心的超新星。利用NGC 3191的SDSS光谱,我们发现其核的金属丰度为~2 Z $_\odot$,而在与SN 2017 egm相似的径向偏移量上,恒星形成区的金属丰度为~ 1.3Z $_\odot$。存档的无线电-紫外测光显示恒星形成速率约为15 M $_\odot$ yr $^{-1}$(约70%被尘埃遮蔽),这可以解释斯威夫特X射线探测,恒星质量约为$10^{10.7}$ M $_\odot$。我们使用贝叶斯光曲线拟合工具MOSFiT,用磁星中心引擎模型模拟早期的紫外光光曲线。拟合表明,喷出物质量为2-4 M $_\odot$,自旋周期为4-6 ms,磁场为(0.7-1.7)$\times 10^{14}$ G,动能为1-2 $\times10^{51}$ erg。这些参数与Nicholl等人(2017)建模的SLSNe的总体分布一致,尽管导出的质量和自旋接近低端,可能表明爆炸前质量和角动量的损失增加。这有两个含义:(i)SLSNe可以发生在太阳的金属丰度,虽然有一个低分数~10%;和(ii)金属丰度最多有适度的影响,他们的属性。这两个结论都与长伽马射线暴的结果一致。假设一个单调上升给出一个爆炸日期MJD $57889\pm1…
Characterizing the properties of the host galaxies of merging compact objects provides essential clues to interpret current and future gravitational-wave detections. Here, we investigate the stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), metallicity and colours of the host galaxies of merging compact objects in the local Universe, by combining the results of MOBSE population-synthesis models together with galaxy catalogs from the EAGLE simulation. We predict that the stellar mass of the host galaxy is an excellent tracer of the merger rate per galaxy ${\rm n}_{\rm GW}$ of double neutron stars (DNSs)…