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通过中心星系和卫星星系的年龄、恒星金属丰度和[α/Fe]探测的跨环境的星系演化

Galaxy evolution across environments as probed by the ages, stellar metallicities and [alpha/Fe] of central and satellite galaxies

Anna R. Gallazzi, Anna Pasquali, Stefano Zibetti, Francesco La Barbera

摘要:

我们探讨了恒星形成和金属富集的历史,现今的星系已受到环境相结合的恒星星族参数估计和SDSS DR 7组环境表征。我们比较恒星年龄,恒星金属丰度和元素丰度比[α/Fe]的卫星和中央星系,作为其恒星和主机组晕质量的函数,控制当前的恒星形成率和陷落时代。我们确认,低于log(Mstar/Msun)=10.5的卫星比同等质量的中央星系更古老,更富含金属。相反,我们没有发现它们的[α/Fe]有任何差异:这主要取决于恒星质量,而不是集团等级或宿主晕质量。我们还发现,在恒星质量低于10^{10.5}Msun的卫星和中心的中位年龄和金属丰度的差异主要是由于卫星和作为晕质量的函数被动星系的比例较高。我们认为,在低质量的观察到的趋势揭示了行动的卫星特定的环境影响的“延迟,然后快速”的方式。当考虑到不同的静止分数时,与同等质量的中心星系相比,由古老的恒星星族主导的卫星在年龄、金属丰度和[α/Fe]方面出现了小的剩余过剩,这些卫星居住在质量大于10^{14} M太阳的晕中。这种年龄、金属丰度和[alpha/Fe]的过剩属于古老的infallers,即在5 Gyr之前已经吸积到当前晕上的卫星。这一结果表明,在靠近宇宙密度峰值的星系中,在恒星形成的早期阶段,环境起了作用。

英文摘要:

We explore how the star formation and metal enrichment histories of present-day galaxies have been affected by environment combining stellar population parameter estimates and group environment characterization for SDSS DR7. We compare stellar ages, stellar metallicities and element abundance ratios [alpha/Fe] of satellite and central galaxies, as a function of their stellar and host group halo mass, controlling for the current star formation rate and for the infall epoch. We confirm that below log(Mstar/Msun)=10.5 satellites are older and metal-richer than equally-massive central galaxies. On the contrary, we do not detect any difference in their [alpha/Fe]: this depends primarily on stellar mass and not on group hierarchy nor host halo mass. We also find that the differences in the median age and metallicity of satellites and centrals at stellar mass below 10^{10.5}Msun are largely due to the higher fraction of passive galaxies among satellites and as a function of halo mass. We argue that the observed trends at low masses reveal the action of satellite-specific environmental effects in a `delayed-then-rapid' fashion. When accounting for the varying quiescent fraction, small residual excess in age, metallicity and [alpha/Fe] emerge for satellites dominated by old stellar populations and residing in halos more massive than 10^{14}Msun, compared to equally-massive central galaxies. This excess in age, metallicity and [alpha/Fe] pertain to ancient infallers, i.e. satellites that have accreted onto the current halo more than 5 Gyr ago. This result points to the action of environment in the early phases of star formation in galaxies located close to cosmic density peaks.

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