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SED拟合中缺少恒星质量:空间未分辨光度学可能低估星系质量

Missing Stellar Mass in SED Fitting: Spatially Unresolved Photometry can Underestimate Galaxy Masses

Robert Sorba, Marcin Sawicki

摘要:

我们拟合模型光谱能量分布的每个像素在67个附近(<z>=0.0057)星系使用宽带测光从斯隆数字巡天和GALEX。对于每个星系,我们比较了恒星质量的总和,每个像素的质量从拟合整个星系作为一个未解决的点源处理发现。我们发现,虽然像素的像素和未解决的质量的星系与低特定的恒星形成率(如椭圆星系和椭圆星系)是在粗略的协议,未解决的质量估计恒星形成的星系是系统地低于从空间分辨测光测量。这种差异与sSFR密切相关,当作为点源处理时,我们样本中最高的sSFR的质量被低估了25%(0.12 dex)。我们发现了一个简单的关系,从未解析的宽带SED拟合到解析的质量估计值得出的统计学上正确的质量估计值:m_{resolved} = m_{unresolved} /(-0.057 log(sSFR)+ 0.34),其中sSFR的单位为年^{-1}。我们通过降低最大图像的图像分辨率来研究不同空间分辨率的影响,并发现在大约3千秒差距的物理尺度下,逐像素质量估计急剧下降,这与螺旋臂宽度相当。我们观察到的效应与“黯然失色”的想法是一致的,该想法认为最年轻的恒星星族掩盖了更大质量,更老-因此更暗-恒星星族。虽然强尘埃带的存在也可能导致任何单个星系的解析和未解析质量估计值之间的巨大差异(高达45%或0.3 dex),但我们发现解析尘埃并不影响平均质量估计值。因此,质量差异和sSFR之间的强相关性最有可能是由于突出的系统偏差。

英文摘要:

We fit model spectral energy distributions to each pixel in 67 nearby (<z>=0.0057) galaxies using broadband photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and GALEX. For each galaxy, we compare the stellar mass derived by summing the mass of each pixel to that found from fitting the entire galaxy treated as an unresolved point source. We find that, while the pixel-by-pixel and unresolved masses of galaxies with low specific star formation rates (such as ellipticals and lenticulars) are in rough agreement, the unresolved mass estimate for star-forming galaxies is systematically lower then the measurement from spatially-resolved photometry. The discrepancy is strongly correlated with sSFR, with the highest sSFRs in our sample having masses underestimated by 25% (0.12 dex) when treated as point sources. We found a simple relation to statistically correct mass estimates derived from unresolved broad-band SED fitting to the resolved mass estimates: m_{resolved} = m_{unresolved}/(-0.057log(sSFR) + 0.34) where sSFR is in units of yr^{-1}. We study the effect of varying spatial resolution by degrading the image resolution of the largest images and find a sharp decrease in the pixel-by-pixel mass estimate at a physical scale of approximately 3 kpc, which is comparable to spiral arm widths. The effects we observe are consistent with the "outshining" idea which posits that the youngest stellar populations mask more massive, older -- and thus fainter -- stellar populations. Although the presence of strong dust lanes can also lead to a drastic difference between resolved and unresolved mass estimates (up to 45% or 0.3 dex) for any individual galaxy, we found that resolving dust does not affect mass estimates on average. The strong correlation between mass discrepancy and sSFR is thus most likely due to the outshining systematic bias.

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