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猝灭取决于形态:来自绿谷星系紫外光径向颜色分布的暗示

Quenching depends on morphologies: implications from the ultraviolet-optical radial color distributions in Green Valley Galaxies

Zhizheng Pan, Jinrong Li, Weipeng Lin, Jing Wang, Xu Kong

摘要:

本文利用银河演化探测器(GALEX)+斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)图像,分析了一个低红移绿谷(GV)星系的径向紫外光学色分布,研究了这些星系中剩余的近期恒星形成的分布。我们发现早型星系(ETG)的$u-r$色与$R_{90}$一致,而晚型星系(LTG)的$r>0.5R_{50}$色与$r>0.5R_{50}$一致,呈单调的蓝色。超过一半的ETG是蓝核的,并且具有显著的正NUV $-r$颜色梯度,这表明它们的恒星形成集中在中心;其余的ETG具有平坦的颜色分布,直到$R_{90}$。SDSS光谱证实了大部分ETG中集中的恒星形成活动,表明$\sim$ 50% ETG具有EW(H $\rm α$)$>6.0$电子结构。对于LTG,95%的LTG显示出均匀的径向颜色分布,这可以解释为红色凸起加上扩展的蓝色圆盘。两种ETG之间的联系,例如,那些具有显著的“蓝核”的物体和那些具有平坦颜色梯度的物体较少为人所知,需要进一步研究。这表明,LTG遵循的一般图片,淬火首先发生在核心区域,然后最终扩展到星系的其余部分。我们的研究结果可以重新检查,并有重要的影响,为使用说明书的调查,如MANGA和SAMI。

英文摘要:

In this Letter, we analyse the radial UV-optical color distributions in a sample of low redshift green valley (GV) galaxies, with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)+Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images, to investigate how the residual recent star formation distribute in these galaxies. We find that the dust-corrected $u-r$ colors of early-type galaxies (ETGs) are flat out to $R_{90}$, while the colors turn blue monotonously when $r>0.5R_{50}$ for late-type galaxies (LTGs). More than a half of the ETGs are blue-cored and have remarkable positive NUV$-r$ color gradients, suggesting that their star formation are centrally concentrated; the rest have flat color distributions out to $R_{90}$. The centrally concentrated star formation activity in a large portion of ETGs is confirmed by the SDSS spectroscopy, showing that $\sim$50 % ETGs have EW(H$\rm α$)$>6.0$ Å. For the LTGs, 95% of them show uniform radial color profiles, which can be interpreted as a red bulge plus an extended blue disk. The links between the two kinds of ETGs, e.g., those objects having remarkable "blue-cored" and those having flat color gradients, are less known and require future investigations. It is suggested that the LTGs follow a general picture that quenching first occur in the core regions, and then finally extend to the rest of the galaxy. Our results can be re-examined and have important implications for the IFU surveys, such as MaNGA and SAMI.

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