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星系中恒星形成率的变化:II。主序列的功率谱分布

The Variability of Star Formation Rate in Galaxies: II. Power Spectrum Distribution on the Main Sequence

Enci Wang, Simon J. Lilly

摘要:

我们约束的时间功率谱的sSFR(t)的恒星形成的星系,使用一个明确的样本的主序星星系从MaNGA和我们的早期测量的比率的SFR平均在过去的5万年内,平均在过去的8亿年。我们探讨了这种方法中隐含的平稳性和遍历性的假设。我们假设一个单一的幂律形式的PSD,但引入一个额外的自由参数,“内在的散射”,试图占任何非遍历性从各种来源介绍。我们分析了一个“综合”的样本组成的全球测量的所有星系,也25个子样本,通过考虑五个径向区域和五个箱的综合恒星质量。假设任何内在的散射不是主要贡献的主要序列分散的星系,我们发现,PSD的斜率在1.0和2.0之间,表明功率(每对数间隔的频率)主要是由较长的时间尺度的变化。我们发现返回的PSD和推断的气体耗尽时间($τ_{\rm dep,eff}$)之间的相关性从应用扩展施密特定律,在该地区具有较短的气体耗尽时间显示较大的综合功率和平坦的PSD。有趣的是,发现通过推断的$τ_{\rm dep,eff}$移动PSD导致所有25个PSD紧密重叠,至少在PSD受到最佳约束并且受关于任何固有散射的不确定性影响最小的区域中。这些结果的一个可能解释是Lilly等人(2013)的气体调节器系统对均匀时变流入的动态响应,如Wang等人(2019)先前提出的。

英文摘要:

We constrain the temporal power spectrum of the sSFR(t) of star-forming galaxies, using a well-defined sample of Main Sequence galaxies from MaNGA and our earlier measurements of the ratio of the SFR averaged within the last 5 Myr to that averaged over the last 800 Myr. We explore the assumptions of stationarity and ergodicity that are implicit in this approach. We assume a single power-law form of the PSD but introduce an additional free parameter, the "intrinsic scatter", to try to account for any non-ergodicity introduced from various sources. We analyze both an "integrated" sample consisting of global measurements of all of the galaxies, and also 25 sub-samples obtained by considering five radial regions and five bins of integrated stellar mass. Assuming that any intrinsic scatter is not the dominant contribution to the Main Sequence dispersion of galaxies, we find that the PSDs have slopes between 1.0 and 2.0, indicating that the power (per log interval of frequency) is mostly contributed by longer timescale variations. We find a correlation between the returned PSDs and the inferred gas depletion times ($τ_{\rm dep,eff}$) obtained from application of the extended Schmidt Law, in that regions with shorter gas depletion times show larger integrated power and flatter PSD. Intriguingly, it is found that shifting the PSDs by the inferred $τ_{\rm dep,eff}$ causes all of the 25 PSDs to closely overlap, at least in that region where the PSD is best constrained and least affected by uncertainties about any intrinsic scatter. A possible explanation of these results is the dynamical response of the gas regulator system of Lilly et al. 2013 to a uniform time-varying inflow, as previously proposed in Wang et al. 2019.

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