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漫散射光的影响II。星系晕、厚盘和BCGs寄主的观测

The influence of diffuse scattered light II. Observations of galaxy haloes and thick discs and hosts of BCGs

Christer Sandin

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18 pages, 11 figures, and 15 pages + 11 figures in appendix, accepted for publication in A&A
发表信息：
A&A 577, A106 (2015)
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摘要：

对星系深层测光的研究发现，在大半径处，表面亮度和颜色分布中存在过量光，其形式为弥漫的微弱晕和厚盘。在大多数情况下，似乎有必要使用外来的恒星星族或替代的物理解决方案来解释过剩。很少有研究仔细审查散射光在这方面的作用。我探索散射光对地面观测的晕和厚盘周围的边缘上的星系，晕周围的面盘星系，周围的蓝色紧凑星系（BCGs）的宿主星系，和晕周围的椭圆星系的影响。表面亮度结构的所有考虑类型的星系进行建模和分析比较散射光晕和厚光盘的测量。我模拟散射光和精确的天空减法简化的Sérsic型和面对盘星系模型的影响。所有星系模型都与下限和更亮的点扩散函数（PSF）卷积;对于少数星系，可以使用专用的PSF。结果显示，几乎所有类型的星系都有明亮的散射光晕和大量的红色过剩，大半径和微弱的表面亮度;例外的是最大的椭圆型星系，散射光的影响较小。研究低估了散射光在解释其表面亮度分布方面的作用。我的分析显示了表面亮度曲线，其中包括散射光，这些散射光与所有半径处的测量结果非常相似并重叠。由于不存在精确的径向扩展PSF，因此从扩散数据推导晕、厚盘和BCG宿主的物理性质是误导性的。显着改进的分析，包括新的测量的PSF需要进一步研究扩散晕。

英文摘要：

Studies of deep photometry of galaxies have presented discoveries of excess light in surface-brightness and colour profiles at large radii in the form of diffuse faint haloes and thick discs. In a majority of the cases, it has seemed necessary to use exotic stellar populations or alternative physical solutions to explain the excess. Few studies have carefully scrutinized the role of scattered light in this context. I explore the influence of scattered light on ground-based observations of haloes and thick discs around edge-on galaxies, haloes around face-on disc galaxies, host galaxies around blue compact galaxies (BCGs), and haloes around elliptical galaxies. Surface-brightness structures of all considered types of galaxies are modelled and analysed to compare scattered-light haloes and thick discs with measurements. I simulate the influence of scattered light and accurate sky subtraction on simplified Sérsic-type and face-on disc galaxy models. All galaxy models are convolved with both lower-limit and brighter point spread functions (PSFs); for a few galaxies it was possible to use dedicated PSFs. The results show bright scattered-light haloes and high amounts of red excess at large radii and faint surface brightnesses for nearly all types of galaxies; exceptions are the largest elliptical-type galaxies where the influence of scattered light is smaller. Studies have underestimated the role of scattered light to explain their surface-brightness profiles. My analysis shows surface-brightness profiles that include scattered light that are very similar to and overlap measurements at all radii. The derivation of physical properties of haloes, thick discs, and BCG hosts from diffuse data is misleading since accurate and radially extended PSFs are non-existent. Significantly improved analyses that include new measurements of PSFs are required to study diffuse haloes further.

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