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SAMI星系巡天:空间分辨GAMA星系中恒星形成的环境淬灭

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Spatially resolving the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA galaxies

A. L. Schaefer, S. M. Croom, J. T. Allen, S. Brough, A. M. Medling, I. -T. Ho, N. Scott, S. N. Richards, M. B. Pracy, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, P. Norberg, M. Alpa… 展开作者

A. L. Schaefer, S. M. Croom, J. T. Allen, S. Brough, A. M. Medling, I. -T. Ho, N. Scott, S. N. Richards, M. B. Pracy, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, P. Norberg, M. Alpaslan, A. E. Bauer, K. Bekki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. V. Bloom, J. J. Bryant, W. J. Couch, S. P. Driver, L. M. R. Fogarty, C. Foster, G. Goldstein, A. W. Green, A. M. Hopkins, I. S. Konstantopoulos, J. S. Lawrence, A. R. López-Sánchez, N. P. F. Lorente, M. S. Owers, R. Sharp, S. M. Sweet, E. N. Taylor, J. van de Sande, C. J. Walcher, O. I. Wong

摘要:

我们使用悉尼-AAO多目标积分场光谱仪(SAMI)星系巡天和星系和质量大会(GAMA)调查的数据,研究星系中恒星形成的环境淬灭的空间分辨特征。利用尘埃校正的测量H $α$辐射分布,我们测量了201个恒星形成星系的样本中恒星形成的径向轮廓,涵盖了三个数量级的恒星质量(M $_{*}$ ; $10^{8.1}$ - $10^{10.95}\, $ M $_{\odot}$)和$5^{th}$最近邻局域环境密度($Σ_{5}$ ; $10^{-1.3}$ - $10^{2.1}\,$ Mpc $^{-2}$)。我们发现,在星系中的恒星形成率梯度是陡峭的密集($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$ Mpc $^{2})>0.5$)的环境中,由$0.58\pm 0.29\, dex\, $ r $_{e}^{-1}$在星系中的恒星质量范围内的$10^{10}<$ M $_{*}/$ M $_{\odot}<10^{11}$,这种陡峭是伴随着减少的综合恒星形成率。然而,对于任何给定的恒星质量或环境密度,星系的恒星形成形态表现出较大的分散性。我们还测量了恒星形成的程度集中使用无单位尺度半径比($r_{50,Hα}/r_{50,cont}$),比较正在进行的恒星形成的程度,以前的恒星形成。有了这个度量,我们发现,与中央集中的恒星形成的星系的比例增加与环境密度,从$\sim 5\pm 4\%$在低密度环境($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$ Mpc $^{2})<0.0$)$30\pm 15\%$在最高密度环境($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$ Mpc $^{2})>1.0$)。这些证据有力地表明,随着局部环境密度的增加,星系中的恒星形成受到抑制,并且这开始于它们的外围,使得猝灭在稠密环境中以由外向内的方式发生,并且不是瞬时的。

英文摘要:

We use data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the spatially-resolved signatures of the environmental quenching of star formation in galaxies. Using dust-corrected measurements of the distribution of H$α$ emission we measure the radial profiles of star formation in a sample of 201 star-forming galaxies covering three orders of magnitude in stellar mass (M$_{*}$; $10^{8.1}$-$10^{10.95}\, $M$_{\odot}$) and in $5^{th}$ nearest neighbour local environment density ($Σ_{5}$; $10^{-1.3}$-$10^{2.1}\,$Mpc$^{-2}$). We show that star formation rate gradients in galaxies are steeper in dense ($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$Mpc$^{2})>0.5$) environments by $0.58\pm 0.29\, dex\, $r$_{e}^{-1}$ in galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^{10}<$M$_{*}/$M$_{\odot}<10^{11}$ and that this steepening is accompanied by a reduction in the integrated star formation rate. However, for any given stellar mass or environment density the star-formation morphology of galaxies shows large scatter. We also measure the degree to which the star formation is centrally concentrated using the unitless scale-radius ratio ($r_{50,Hα}/r_{50,cont}$), which compares the extent of ongoing star formation to previous star formation. With this metric we find that the fraction of galaxies with centrally concentrated star formation increases with environment density, from $\sim 5\pm 4\%$ in low-density environments ($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$Mpc$^{2})<0.0$) to $30\pm 15\%$ in the highest density environments ($\log_{10}(Σ_{5}/$Mpc$^{2})>1.0$). These lines of evidence strongly suggest that with increasing local environment density the star formation in galaxies is suppressed, and that this starts in their outskirts such that quenching occurs in an outside-in fashion in dense environments and is not instantaneous.

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