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arXiv 2004.07273astro-ph.GA
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利用表面亮度起伏测量低光度星系的距离

Measuring distances to low-luminosity galaxies using surface brightness fluctuations

Johnny P. Greco, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Scott G. Carlsten, Charlie Conroy

摘要:

本文对低光度恒星系统的表面亮度涨落进行了深入的研究。使用MIST模型,我们计算理论预测的绝对SBF幅度在LSST,HST ACS/WFC,并建议罗马空间望远镜过滤系统。我们比较我们的计算观察到的SBF颜色关系的系统,跨越了广泛的年龄和金属丰度。与以前的研究一致,我们发现,单年龄人口模型显示出良好的协议与观测的低质量星系与$0.5 \lesssim g - i \lesssim 0.9$。对于较蓝的星系,观测到的关系与复合恒星星族模型拟合得更好。为了研究从低光度系统中恢复SBF,我们进行了详细的图像模拟,其中我们将完全填充的模型星系注入到来自真实观测的深地面图像中。我们的模拟结果表明,LSST将提供足够的质量和深度的数据,以测量SBF的大小与精度的超微弱$\left(\mathrm{10^4 \leq M_\star/M_\odot \leq 10^5}\right)$和低质量的经典(M $_\star\leq10^7$ M $_\odot$)矮星系的${\sim}0.2$ -0.5等的${\sim}0.2$-Mpc,分别为${\sim}4$ Mpc和${\sim}25$ Mpc,在其深宽快调查的头几年。许多重大的实际挑战和系统的不确定性仍然存在,包括一个不可约的“采样分散”的超暗矮星的SBF由于其欠采样的恒星质量函数。尽管如此,我们的结论是,在新一代的宽视场成像调查的SBF有可能发挥关键作用,在附近的宇宙中的矮星系的有效确认和表征。

英文摘要:

We present an in-depth study of surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) in low-luminosity stellar systems. Using the MIST models, we compute theoretical predictions for absolute SBF magnitudes in the LSST, HST ACS/WFC, and proposed Roman Space Telescope filter systems. We compare our calculations to observed SBF-color relations of systems that span a wide range of age and metallicity. Consistent with previous studies, we find that single-age population models show excellent agreement with observations of low-mass galaxies with $0.5 \lesssim g - i \lesssim 0.9$. For bluer galaxies, the observed relation is better fit by models with composite stellar populations. To study SBF recovery from low-luminosity systems, we perform detailed image simulations in which we inject fully populated model galaxies into deep ground-based images from real observations. Our simulations show that LSST will provide data of sufficient quality and depth to measure SBF magnitudes with precisions of ${\sim}0.2$-0.5 mag in ultra-faint $\left(\mathrm{10^4 \leq M_\star/M_\odot \leq 10^5}\right)$ and low-mass classical (M$_\star\leq10^7$ M$_\odot$) dwarf galaxies out to ${\sim}4$ Mpc and ${\sim}25$ Mpc, respectively, within the first few years of its deep-wide-fast survey. Many significant practical challenges and systematic uncertainties remain, including an irreducible "sampling scatter" in the SBFs of ultra-faint dwarfs due to their undersampled stellar mass functions. We nonetheless conclude that SBFs in the new generation of wide-field imaging surveys have the potential to play a critical role in the efficient confirmation and characterization of dwarf galaxies in the nearby universe.

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