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NGC 4191中恒星反转成分的性质和形成机制

The properties and the formation mechanism of the stellar counter-rotating components in NGC 4191

Lodovico Coccato, Maximilian Fabricius, Lorenzo Morelli, Enrico Maria Corsini, Alessandro Pizzella, Peter Erwin, Elena Dalla Bonta', Roberto P. Saglia, Ralf Ben… 展开作者

Lodovico Coccato, Maximilian Fabricius, Lorenzo Morelli, Enrico Maria Corsini, Alessandro Pizzella, Peter Erwin, Elena Dalla Bonta', Roberto P. Saglia, Ralf Bender, Michael Williams

摘要:

我们解开NGC 4191中的两个反向旋转的恒星组件,并表征其物理性质(运动学,形态,年龄,金属丰度和丰度比)。我们对积分场数据进行了光谱分解,以分离两个恒星成分对整个视场中观测到的星系光谱的贡献。我们还进行了光度分解,用一个Sérsic凸起和两个不同尺度长度的指数盘对星系进行建模,目的是将这些结构成分与运动学成分联系起来。我们测量的最佳拟合,代表运动学分量的吸收线指数的等效宽度,并比较我们的测量值的预测的恒星星族模型。我们有证据表明,视线速度分布(LOSVDs)是一致的存在下,两个不同的运动学组件。结合LOSVDs和光度学的强度信息,我们可以将Sérsic凸起和外盘与主要运动分量相关联,将内盘与次要运动分量相关联。这两个运动学恒星组件相对于彼此反向旋转。主要成分是最明亮和质量最大的,它的旋转速度比次要成分慢,次要成分沿着与电离气体相同的方向旋转。我们还发现,这两个运动学分量具有相同的太阳金属丰度和太阳下的丰度比,不存在显着的径向梯度。另一方面,它们的年龄显示出强烈的负梯度,这可能表明次级成分是最年轻的。我们解释了我们的结果,根据最近的宇宙学模拟,并建议气体吸积沿两个灯丝的形成机制的恒星反转组件在NGC 4191(删节)。

英文摘要:

We disentangle two counter-rotating stellar components in NGC 4191 and characterize their physical properties (kinematics, morphology, age, metallicity, and abundance ratio). We performed a spectroscopic decomposition on integral field data to separate the contribution of two stellar components to the observed galaxy spectrum across the field of view. We also performed a photometric decomposition, modelling the galaxy with a Sérsic bulge and two exponential disks of different scale length, with the aim of associating these structural components with the kinematic components. We measured the equivalent width of the absorption line indices on the best fit that represent the kinematic components and compared our measurements to the predictions of stellar population models. We have evidence that the line-of-sight velocity distributions (LOSVDs) are consistent with the presence of two distinct kinematic components. The combined information of the intensity of the LOSVDs and photometry allows us to associate the Sérsic bulge and the outer disk with the main kinematic component, and the inner disk with the secondary kinematic component. The two kinematic stellar components counter-rotate with respect to each other. The main component is the most luminous and massive, and it rotates slower than the secondary component, which rotates along the same direction as the ionized gas. We also found that the two kinematic components have the same solar metallicity and sub-solar abundance ratio, without the presence of significant radial gradients. On the other hand, their ages show strong negative gradients and the possible indication that the secondary component is the youngest. We interpret our results in light of recent cosmological simulations and suggest gas accretion along two filaments as the formation mechanism of the stellar counter-rotating components in NGC 4191 (Abridged).

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