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arXiv 2007.13984astro-ph.GA
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老矮星系中的恒星爆发核

Starbursting Nuclei in Old Dwarf Galaxies

Sanjaya Paudel, Suk-Jin Yoon

摘要:

早型矮星系的核心通常比星系主体年轻,这种年龄差异一直是一个谜。为了探索dEs中年轻核的起源,我们研究了一个dEs样本,它具有紧凑的恒星形成斑点,这些斑点在视觉上与dEs的核相似,但更蓝。我们发现:(1)致密的恒星形成团块具有典型的恒星质量,约为主星系恒星质量的1%,(2)部分团块的位置略偏离星系中心,(3)由公开的斯隆数字巡天光纤光谱测量的H $α$等效宽度表明它们的形成年龄为几兆年量级;(4)它们的发射线金属丰度12\,+\,log(O/H)与太阳值一样高,而底层星系具有典型的dEs恒星星族,即,log(Z/Z $_{\sun}$)\、$\sim$ \、$-0.8$。基于这些结果,我们认为,中心恒星形成斑点可以提供一个捕捉到的行为在dEs的核形成的观点,并讨论了可能的年轻核在老dEs的形成机制。我们特别提出,这些偏离中心的紧凑的恒星形成区域可能作为种子的核提出的“湿迁移”的情况下\cite{Guillard16}。

英文摘要:

Nuclei of early-type dwarf galaxies (dEs) are usually younger than the galaxy main body, and such discrepancy in age has been a puzzle. To explore the origin of young nuclei in dEs, we study a sample of dEs having compact star-forming blobs that are visually similar to dEs' nuclei but by far bluer. We find that (1) the compact star-forming blobs have a typical stellar mass of one percent of the host galaxy stellar mass; (2) some of the blobs are positioned slightly off from the center of the galaxies; (3) the H$α$ equivalent width measured from the publicly available Sloan Digital Sky Survey fiber spectroscopy shows their formation ages being an order of few Mega-year; and (4) their emission line metallicities, 12\,+\,log(O/H), are as high as the solar value, while the underlying galaxies have the typical stellar populations of dEs, i.e., log(Z/Z$_{\sun}$)\,$\sim$\,$-0.8$. Based on the results, we argue that the central star-forming blobs can provide a caught-in-the-act view of nuclei formation in dEs, and discussing possible formation mechanisms of young nuclei in old dEs. We particularly propose that these off-centered compact star-forming regions may act as seeds of nuclei as proposed in the `wet migration' scenario of \cite{Guillard16}.

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