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成为WISE II:减少恒星形成历史对静止星系质光比的影响

Being WISE II: Reducing the Influence of Star Formation History on the Mass-to-Light Ratio of Quiescent Galaxies

Mark A. Norris, Glenn Van de Ven, Eva Schinnerer, Robert A. Crain, Sharon Meidt, Brent Groves, Richard G. Bower, Michelle Furlong, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns

摘要:

恒星星族合成模型现在可以在3.4和4.6 $μ$ m的近红外波段(WISE W1 $\&$ W2或IRAC 1 $\&$ 2)重现旧恒星系统(年龄$>$ 2 Gyr)的光度测定。在本文中,我们推导出这些和光学波段的恒星质光比,并证实近红外M/L显示出显着降低的灵敏度,年龄和金属丰度相比,光学波段,并进一步,这种行为导致显着更强大的恒星质量与[Fe/H] > -0.5的静止星系与恒星形成历史(SFH)无关。然后,我们利用EAGLE模拟星系形成的实际早型星系SFH和金属丰度分布,研究了两种确定星系M/L的方法:1)我们表明,利用光谱推断的星群光度加权年龄和金属丰度,可以在很大程度上消除由未知SFH引入的不确定性,从而选择合适的单个恒星星族(SSP)等效M/L。使用这种方法,最大的系统误差,由于SFH的M/L的早期型星系是$<$ 4 $\%$在3.4 $μ$ m和典型的不确定性,由于年龄和金属丰度的错误创建分散$\lesssim$ 13 $\%$。即使在考虑与内部尘埃消光相关的不确定性之前,光学波段的等效值也要大2-3倍以上。2)我们证明,如果鹰SFH和金属丰度准确地再现早期型星系的真实属性,使用迭代的方法来选择一个质量依赖的M/L可以提供更准确的恒星质量的早期型星系,与典型的不确定性$<$ 9 $\%$。

英文摘要:

Stellar population synthesis models can now reproduce the photometry of old stellar systems (age $>$ 2 Gyr) in the near-infrared (NIR) bands at 3.4 and 4.6$μ$m (WISE W1 $\&$ W2 or IRAC 1 $\&$ 2). In this paper we derive stellar mass-to-light ratios for these and optical bands, and confirm that the NIR M/L shows dramatically reduced sensitivity to both age and metallicity compared to optical bands, and further, that this behavior leads to significantly more robust stellar masses for quiescent galaxies with [Fe/H] > -0.5 regardless of star formation history (SFH). We then use realistic early-type galaxy SFHs and metallicity distributions from the EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation to investigate two methods to determine the appropriate M/L for a galaxy: 1) We show that the uncertainties introduced by an unknown SFH can be largely removed using a spectroscopically inferred luminosity-weighted age and metallicity for the population to select the appropriate single stellar population (SSP) equivalent M/L. Using this method, the maximum systematic error due to SFH on the M/L of an early-type galaxy is $<$ 4$\%$ at 3.4 $μ$m and typical uncertainties due to errors in the age and metallicity create scatter of $\lesssim$13$\%$. The equivalent values for optical bands are more than 2-3 times greater, even before considering uncertainties associated with internal dust extinction. 2) We demonstrate that if the EAGLE SFHs and metallicities accurately reproduce the true properties of early-type galaxies, the use of an iterative approach to select a mass dependent M/L can provide even more accurate stellar masses for early-type galaxies, with typical uncertainties $<$ 9$\%$.

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