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不同环境下早期型星系星的形成历史

Early-Type Galaxy Star Formation Histories in Different Environments

Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Genevieve J. Graves

摘要:

利用斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的$\sim$ 29,000个邻近静止早型星系(ETG)的高信噪比叠加光谱,研究了它们的恒星形成历史(SFH)随沿和垂直于基本面(FP)的固定位置环境的变化。我们定义了三个分类的本地组环境的基础上的“身份”的星系内的暗物质晕:中央“Brilliant集团Galeries”(BGG); Sapphire;和Isolateds(那些“最大的”在暗物质晕没有Sapphire)。我们发现,静态ETG的SFH几乎完全由其结构参数$σ$和$ΔI_e$决定。在固定结构的情况下,与局部星群环境的任何变化都是轻微的:土星有最古老的恒星星族,比BGG老0.02 dex,比Isolateds老0.04 dex; BGG有最高的Fe富集度,比Isolateds高0.01 dex,比土星高0.02 dex; BGG、Isolateds和土星之间的Mg增强没有差异。我们的观察,零阶,静态ETG的SFHS完全被它们的结构所捕获,这对后期演化过程(发生在星系初始形成和主要恒星形成寿命之后的过程)可以改变它们的SFHS/结构的程度产生了重要的定性约束。

英文摘要:

We use very high-S/N stacked spectra of $\sim$29,000 nearby quiescent early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to investigate variations in their star formation histories (SFHs) with environment at fixed position along and perpendicular to the Fundamental Plane (FP). We define three classifications of local group environment based on the `identities' of galaxies within their dark matter halos: central `Brightest Group Galaxies' (BGGs); Satellites; and Isolateds (those `most massive' in a dark matter halo with no Satellites). We find that the SFHs of quiescent ETGs are almost entirely determined by their structural parameters $σ$ and $ΔI_e$. Any variation with local group environment at fixed structure is only slight: Satellites have the oldest stellar populations, 0.02 dex older than BGGs and 0.04 dex older than Isolateds; BGGs have the highest Fe-enrichments, 0.01 dex higher than Isolateds and 0.02 dex higher than Satellites; there are no differences in Mg-enhancement between BGGs, Isolateds, and Satellites. Our observation that, to zeroth-order, the SFHs of quiescent ETGs are fully captured by their structures places important qualitative constraints on the degree to which late-time evolutionary processes (those which occur after a galaxy's initial formation and main star-forming lifetime) can alter their SFHs/structures.

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