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在质量大小平面上绘制早型星系中的吸积星

Mapping Accreted Stars in Early-Type Galaxies Across the Mass-Size Plane

Thomas A. Davison, Mark A. Norris, Ryan Leaman, Harald Kuntschner, Alina Boecker, Glenn van de Ven

摘要:

星系合并是决定星系最终质量、结构、恒星星族和运动学的重要因素。宇宙学星系模拟表明,z=0时最大质量的星系主要是由高比例的“异位”恒星组成的,这些恒星首先在不同的独立星系中形成,然后合并到宿主星系中。使用空间分辨MUSE光谱,我们量化和映射的异位星在13个大规模的早期型星系。我们使用全光谱拟合与半解析的星系演化模型,以隔离的签名,在星系的光,这是异地人口的指示。使用大的MUSE视场,我们发现所有星系的离地分数都随着半径的增加而增加,与质量较小和更紧凑的源(在相同半径内达到5%至40%的离地分数)相比,质量较大和更扩展的星系的径向离地分数增加得更快(在2个有效半径处达到30%至100%之间的值)。这些结果与理论和模拟的预测一致,这些预测表明,对于最大质量的星系,在固定质量下,异位分数应随半径显着增加。

英文摘要:

Galaxy mergers are instrumental in dictating the final mass, structure, stellar populations, and kinematics of galaxies. Cosmological galaxy simulations indicate that the most massive galaxies at z=0 are dominated by high fractions of `ex-situ' stars, which formed first in distinct independent galaxies, and then subsequently merged into the host galaxy. Using spatially resolved MUSE spectroscopy we quantify and map the ex-situ stars in thirteen massive Early Type galaxies. We use full spectral fitting together with semi-analytic galaxy evolution models to isolate the signatures in the galaxies' light which are indicative of ex-situ populations. Using the large MUSE field of view we find that all galaxies display an increase in ex-situ fraction with radius, with massive and more extended galaxies showing a more rapid increase in radial ex-situ fraction, (reaching values between 30% to 100% at 2 effective radii) compared to less massive and more compact sources (reaching between 5% to 40% ex-situ fraction within the same radius). These results are in line with predictions from theory and simulations which suggest ex-situ fractions should increase significantly with radius at fixed mass for the most massive galaxies.

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