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相互作用螺旋星系NGC 5194的演化

The Evolution of Interacting Spiral Galaxy NGC 5194

Xiaoyu Kang, Ruixiang Chang, Fenghui Zhang, Liantao Cheng, Lang Wang

摘要:

NGC 5194(M51a)是一个巨大的螺旋星系,正在与它的同伴相互作用。在这里,我们专注于调查的主要性质,其恒星形成历史(SFH)通过构建一个简单的演化模型,该模型假设,该盘建立逐渐冷气体的下降和气体的下降率可以参数化描述的高斯形式。通过与观测资料的比较,讨论了模型中自由参数的可能取值范围,从而对M51a的演化和SFH的主要性质有了进一步的认识。我们发现,模型预测是非常敏感的自由参数和模型采用一个恒定的入峰时间$t_{\rm p}\,=\,7.0{\rm Gyr}$可以重现M51 a的大部分观察到的限制。虽然我们的模型没有假设内盘的气体进入时间尺度比外盘短,但我们的模型预测仍然表明M51a的盘由内而外形成。我们发现M51a的平均恒星年龄比银河系的年轻,但比富气盘星系UGC 8802的年龄大。在本文中,我们还介绍了一个“玩具”模型,允许最近发生的额外的冷气体的下降来模拟M51a和它的同伴之间的相互作用的影响。我们的结果表明,当前分子气体表面密度,SFR和UV带表面亮度是重要的量来跟踪最近的相互作用对银河系SF过程的影响。

英文摘要:

NGC 5194 (M51a) is a grand-design spiral galaxy and undergoing interactions with its companion. Here we focus on investigating main properties of its star-formation history (SFH) by constructing a simple evolution model, which assumes that the disc builds up gradually by cold gas infall and the gas infall rate can be parameterizedly described by a Gaussian form. By comparing model predictions with the observed data, we discuss the probable range for free parameter in the model and then know more about the main properties of the evolution and SFH of M51a. We find that the model predictions are very sensitive to the free parameter and the model adopting a constant infall-peak time $t_{\rm p}\,=\,7.0{\rm Gyr}$ can reproduce most of the observed constraints of M51a. Although our model does not assume the gas infall time-scale of the inner disc is shorter than that of the outer disc, our model predictions still show that the disc of M51a forms inside-out. We find that the mean stellar age of M51a is younger than that of the Milky Way, but older than that of the gas-rich disc galaxy UGC 8802. In this paper, we also introduce a 'toy' model to allow an additional cold gas infall occurred recently to imitate the influence of the interaction between M51a and its companion. Our results show that the current molecular gas surface density, the SFR and the UV-band surface brightness are important quantities to trace the effects of recent interaction on galactic SF process.

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