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后发座星系团星系的恒星形成历史与模拟轨道相匹配,暗示第一近心周围的淬火

Star formation histories of Coma Cluster galaxies matched to simulated orbits hint at quenching around first pericenter

A. K. Upadhyay, K. A. Oman, S. C. Trager

摘要:

通过追踪后发座星系团内星系的轨道和恒星形成历史,我们试图了解高密度星系团环境在淬灭这些星系中的作用。我们结合恒星形成的历史提取的高信号-噪声光谱的11个早期型星系的后发座星系团的中心周围的概率分布的轨道参数使用N体模拟连接他们的轨道和恒星形成的历史。我们发现,所有11个星系可能在第一次接近近心轴时熄灭。恒星质量较高的星系($\log(M_\star/\mathrm{M}_\odot)>10$)在落入星系团时(当它们穿过$2.5r_\mathrm{vir}$时),形成了比它们的低质量星系($\sim 80$ - $90\%$)更高的恒星质量分数(大于$\sim90\%$)。我们发现,预期的下降发生在$z\sim0.6$周围,其次是第一个臂间通道$\sim4\,\mathrm{Gyr}$后。在我们的样本中,半乳糖形成了它们恒星质量的一个重要部分,直到$15\%$,在第一近心点和第一近心点之间,并且在第一近心点聚集了超过$\sim98\%$的累积恒星质量。与以前的低红移研究表明,恒星形成持续到第一远心或更晚,在我们的样本星系中,第一近心已经形成的恒星质量的高百分比表明,恒星形成在第一次近心通道后的十亿年内停止。我们认为可能的物理机制驱动淬火,并发现我们的结果类似的情况下,在集群在$z\sim1$,积极剥离的气体(冲压压力或潮汐驱动)似乎需要淬火卫星的第一个臂间通道。然而,需要更大的样本来最终解释昏迷星团中未知的预处理卫星部分。

英文摘要:

By tracing the orbital and star formation histories of galaxies within the Coma cluster, we seek to understand the role of the high-density cluster environment in quenching these galaxies. We combine star formation histories extracted from high-signal-to-noise spectra of 11 early-type galaxies around the center of the Coma cluster with probability distributions for their orbital parameters obtained using an N-body simulation to connect their orbital and star formation histories. We find that all 11 galaxies likely quenched near their first pericentric approach. Higher stellar mass galaxies ($\log(M_\star/\mathrm{M}_\odot)>10$) had formed a higher fraction of their stellar mass (more than $\sim90\%$) than their lower mass counterparts ($\sim 80$-$90\%$) by the time they fell into the cluster (when they cross $2.5r_\mathrm{vir}$). We find that the expected infall occurred around $z\sim0.6$, followed by the first pericentric passage $\sim4\,\mathrm{Gyr}$ later. Galaxies in our sample formed a significant fraction of their stellar mass, up to $15\%$, between infall and first pericenter, and had assembled more than $\sim98\%$ of their cumulative stellar mass by first pericenter. Unlike previous low-redshift studies that suggest that star formation continues until about first apocenter or later, the high percentage of stellar mass already formed by first pericenter in our sample galaxies points to star formation ceasing within a gigayear after the first pericentric passage. We consider the possible physical mechanisms driving quenching and find that our results resemble the situation in clusters at $z\sim1$, where active stripping of gas (ram-pressure or tidally driven) seems to be required to quench satellites by their first pericentric passage. However, a larger sample will be required to conclusively account for the unknown fraction of preprocessed satellites in the Coma cluster.

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