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一对飞越的蓝色致密矮星系的HI性质和恒星形成历史

HI properties and star formation history of a fly-by pair of blue compact dwarf galaxies

Jinhyub Kim, Aeree Chung, O. Ivy Wong, Bumhyun Lee, Eon-Chang Sung, Lister Staveley-Smith

摘要:

飞掠相互作用被认为是蓝致密矮星系中恒星形成增强的主要解释之一,但迄今为止还没有发现这种情况的直接证据。在HI Parkes全天空巡天(HIPASS)中,ESO 435-IG 020和ESO 435- G 016在一个普通的、扩展的氢原子气体包层中发现了一个BCD对,这为检验BCD中的星暴确实可以由飞越相互作用触发的假设提供了一个理想的案例。利用澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列(ATCA)的高分辨率数据,我们调查了HI属性和光谱能量分布(SED)的BCD对研究它们的相互作用和恒星形成的历史。高分辨率HI数据的两个BCD揭示了一些特点,这是暗示潮汐扰动。同时,40%的HIPASS通量在ATCA观测中没有被考虑,在两个BCD之间没有发现HI气体桥。有趣的是,在HIPASS和ATCA数据的残差中,10%的缺失通量似乎位于两个BCD之间。虽然最主要的年轻恒星星族的SED年龄足够大,可以从与任何邻居(包括两个BCD中的另一个)的相互作用中起源,但ESO 435-IG 020中强烈的H $α$发射和ESO 435- G 016中气体的剪切运动所追踪到的最近的恒星形成活动表明了更近或当前的潮汐相互作用。基于这些以及HIPASS和ATCA数据之间的剩余发射,我们提出两个BCD之间的相互作用是其最近增强的恒星形成活动的起源。气体盘上的剪切运动,可能伴随着剥离气体的再吸积,可能是这个BCD对中活跃恒星形成的原因。

英文摘要:

A fly-by interaction has been suggested to be one of the major explanations for enhanced star formation in blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies, yet no direct evidence for this scenario has been found to date. In the HI Parkes all-sky survey (HIPASS), ESO 435-IG 020 and ESO 435- G 016, a BCD pair were found in a common, extended gas envelope of atomic hydrogen, providing an ideal case to test the hypothesis that the starburst in BCDs can be indeed triggered by a fly-by interaction. Using high-resolution data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we investigated HI properties and the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the BCD pair to study their interaction and star formation histories. The high-resolution HI data of both BCDs reveal a number of peculiarities, which are suggestive of tidal perturbation. Meanwhile, 40% of the HIPASS flux is not accounted for in the ATCA observations with no HI gas bridge found between the two BCDs. Intriguingly, in the residual of the HIPASS and the ATCA data, 10% of the missing flux appears to be located between the two BCDs. While the SED-based age of the most dominant young stellar population is old enough to have originated from the interaction with any neighbors (including the other of the two BCDs), the most recent star formation activity traced by strong H$α$ emission in ESO 435-IG 020 and the shear motion of gas in ESO 435- G 016, suggest a more recent or current tidal interaction. Based on these and the residual emission between the HIPASS and the ATCA data, we propose an interaction between the two BCDs as the origin of their recently enhanced star formation activity. The shear motion on the gas disk, potentially with re-accretion of the stripped gas, could be responsible for the active star formation in this BCD pair.

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