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行星状星云及其母恒星星族。追踪室女星系团核心中M87和团内光的质量组装

Planetary Nebulae and their parent stellar populations. Tracing the mass assembly of M87 and Intracluster light in the Virgo cluster core

Magda Arnaboldi, Alessia Longobardi, Ortwin Gerhard

摘要:

星系的弥漫延伸的外部区域很难研究,因为它们很微弱,典型的表面亮度只有黑暗夜空的1%。我们可以通过使用分辨的恒星示踪剂来解决这个问题,这些示踪剂在距离星系中心很远的地方仍然可见。本文介绍了使用行星状星云作为示踪剂和校准其性质的指标,恒星形成的历史,平均年龄和金属丰度的母星在银河系和本星系群星系。然后,我们报告的结果,从深,扩大,行星状星云调查在0.5平方度的区域为中心的最明亮的星系团星系NGC 4486(M87)在室女星系团的核心,进行与SuprimeCam@Subaru和FLAMES-GIRAFFE@VLT。在距离M87中心150千秒差距的范围内发现了两个PN种群。一个与M87晕有关,另一个与室女星系团核心的团内光有关。它们具有不同的视速度和空间分布,以及不同的行星状星云特定频率和光度函数。在观测区域内的星团内行星状星云的光度相当于大麦云云光度的四倍。M87晕状行星状星云是一个更古老、更富含金属的母恒星星族。在M87晕行星状星云的视向速度与长轴距离的投影相空间中检测到的子结构为一个光度为M33两倍的卫星星系最近的吸积事件提供了证据。卫星星在1 Gyr前被潮汐剥离,到达远心点,长轴距离M87中心60-90 kpc。M87的晕在探测到子结构的距离上仍在显著增长。

英文摘要:

The diffuse extended outer regions of galaxies are hard to study because they are faint, with typical surface brightness of 1% of the dark night sky. We can tackle this problem by using resolved star tracers which remain visible at large distances from the galaxy centres. This article describes the use of Planetary Nebulae as tracers and the calibration of their properties as indicators of the star formation history, mean age and metallicity of the parent stars in the Milky Way and Local Group galaxies . We then report on the results from a deep, extended, planetary nebulae survey in a 0.5 sqdeg region centred on the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 4486 (M87) in the Virgo cluster core, carried out with SuprimeCam@Subaru and FLAMES-GIRAFFE@VLT. Two PN populations are identified out to 150 kpc distance from the centre of M87. One population is associated with the M87 halo and the second one with the intracluster light in the Virgo cluster core. They have different line-of-sight velocity and spatial distributions, as well as different planetary nebulae specific frequencies and luminosity functions. The intracluster planetary nebulae in the surveyed region correspond to a luminosity of four times the luminosity of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The M87 halo planetary nebulae trace an older, more metal-rich, parent stellar population. A substructure detected in the projected phase-space of the line-of-sight velocity vs. major axis distance for the M87 halo planetary nebulae provides evidence for the recent accretion event of a satellite galaxy with luminosity twice that of M33. The satellite stars were tidally stripped about 1 Gyr ago, and reached apocenter at a major axis distance of 60-90 kpc from the centre of M87. The M87 halo is still growing significantly at the distances where the substructure is detected.

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