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宇宙网中的绿谷星系:内部与环境淬火

Green valley galaxies in the cosmic web: internal versus environmental quenching

Apashanka Das, Biswajit Pandey, Suman Sarkar

摘要:

我们分析的SDSS数据进行分类的星系的颜色的基础上,使用模糊集理论的方法和量化的环境,使用本地尺寸。我们发现,绿色星系的分数不依赖于环境和$10\%-20\%$的星系在每个环境中的绿色谷取决于恒星质量范围的选择。在每个环境中,大约有$10\%$的绿色星系拥有活动星系核。结合银河动物园的数据,我们发现,$\sim 95\%$的绿色星系是螺旋和$\sim 5\%$是椭圆在每个环境。绿色星系中只有$\sim 8\%$表现出相互作用和合并的迹象,$\sim 1\%$具有主要的凸起,而$\sim 6\%$则拥有一个棒。我们发现,恒星的质量分布的红色和绿色星系是非常相似的,在每一个环境。我们的分析表明,大多数绿色星系必须使用物理机制来减少它们的恒星形成,而不是相互作用,合并,以及由凸起,酒吧和活动星系核活动驱动的机制。我们推测,这些是大质量的星系,只有通过平滑的吸积和抑制恒星形成主要是通过质量驱动淬火。使用Kolmogorov-Smirnov检验,我们没有发现不同环境中绿色星系的属性之间存在任何统计学显著差异。我们的结论是,环境因素发挥次要作用和内部过程中发挥主导作用,在淬火的绿色山谷星系的恒星形成。

英文摘要:

We analyze the SDSS data to classify the galaxies based on their colour using a fuzzy set-theoretic method and quantify their environments using the local dimension. We find that the fraction of the green galaxies does not depend on the environment and $10\%-20\%$ of the galaxies at each environment are in the green valley depending on the stellar mass range chosen. Approximately $10\%$ of the green galaxies at each environment host an AGN. Combining data from the Galaxy Zoo, we find that $\sim 95\%$ of the green galaxies are spirals and $\sim 5\%$ are ellipticals at each environment. Only $\sim 8\%$ of green galaxies exhibit signs of interactions and mergers, $\sim 1\%$ have dominant bulge, and $\sim 6\%$ host a bar. We show that the stellar mass distributions for the red and green galaxies are quite similar at each environment. Our analysis suggests that the majority of the green galaxies must curtail their star formation using physical mechanism(s) other than interactions, mergers, and those driven by bulge, bar and AGN activity. We speculate that these are the massive galaxies that have grown only via smooth accretion and suppressed the star formation primarily through mass driven quenching. Using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, we do not find any statistically significant difference between the properties of green galaxies in different environments. We conclude that the environmental factors play a minor role and the internal processes play the dominant role in quenching star formation in the green valley galaxies.

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