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星系z~1演化的形态学和色质图线索

Morphology and the Color-Mass Diagram as Clues to Galaxy Evolution at z~1

Meredith C. Powell, C. Megan Urry, Carolin N. Cardamone, Brooke D. Simmons, Kevin Schawinski, Sydney Young, Mari Kawakatsu

摘要:

通过研究不同形态类型星系的色质量分布,我们研究了z~1处星系合并在恒星形成猝灭中的意义。本文对CANDELS/GOODS南北场的~5000个星系和X射线选择的活动星系核(AGN)的GOODS iz图像进行了二维光剖面拟合,得到了红移范围为0.7<z<1.3的图像。区分凸起为主和盘为主的形态,我们发现,磁盘和球状体有不同的色质量分布,在z~0的研究。盘状星系在颜色上的平滑分布对应于气体的缓慢耗尽,没有快速猝灭事件。与此同时,蓝色的球状体很可能来自恒星形成盘星系的主要合并,而中间绿色的球状体的缺乏暗示着快速淬火。中等亮度的X射线活动星系核主机的分布是均匀的颜色,相比之下,我们发现类似的数量和分布之间的两种形态类型没有明显的依赖爱丁顿比。在蓝云和绿谷中拥有活动星系核的膨胀主导星系的比例很高,这与活动星系核在一次重大合并后被触发的情况是一致的,然后宿主星系迅速演变成绿谷。这表明活动星系核的反馈可能在少数经历大合并的星系中对恒星形成的淬灭起作用。

英文摘要:

We study the significance of mergers in the quenching of star formation in galaxies at z~1 by examining their color-mass distributions for different morphology types. We perform two-dimensional light profile fits to GOODS iz images of ~5000 galaxies and X-ray selected active galactic nucleus (AGN) hosts in the CANDELS/GOODS-north and south fields in the redshift range 0.7<z<1.3. Distinguishing between bulge-dominated and disk-dominated morphologies, we find that disks and spheroids have distinct color-mass distributions, in agreement with studies at z~0. The smooth distribution across colors for the disk galaxies corresponds to a slow exhaustion of gas, with no fast quenching event. Meanwhile, blue spheroids most likely come from major mergers of star-forming disk galaxies, and the dearth of spheroids at intermediate green colors is suggestive of rapid quenching. The distribution of moderate luminosity X-ray AGN hosts is even across colors, in contrast, and we find similar numbers and distributions among the two morphology types with no apparent dependence on Eddington ratio. The high fraction of bulge-dominated galaxies that host an AGN in the blue cloud and green valley is consistent with the scenario in which the AGN is triggered after a major merger, and the host galaxy then quickly evolves into the green valley. This suggests AGN feedback may play a role in the quenching of star formation in the minority of galaxies that undergo major mergers.

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