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z~0.5星系团MS 0451.6-0305的冲压压力剥离

Ram pressure stripping in the z~0.5 galaxy cluster MS 0451.6-0305

Florence Durret, Lucie Degott, Catarina. Lobo, Harald Ebeling, Mathilde Jauzac, Sut-Ieng Tam

摘要:

周围的热X射线气体对星系团星系施加的压力可以导致冲压压力剥离(RPS)星系的存在,其特征是不对称的形状,在某些情况下,蓝色恒星和/或X射线气体的尾巴,增加了恒星的形成。我们在星系团MS 0451.6-0305中寻找z~0.5的这类星系,所依据的是哈勃太空望远镜(HST)拍摄的覆盖面积约为6x6 Mpc ^2的图像、一个带有光度红移的8星等地面星表和一个光谱红移星表。我们定义的星系团成员的光谱红移样本的359个星系的平均星系团速度在4 sigma_v,和测光红移样本覆盖范围[0.48,0.61]。我们搜索RPS星系,并与Zooniverse合作测试其分类的错误,并计算光谱样本的相空间图。我们运行LePhare恒星星族合成程序,分析和比较RPS和非RPS星系的性质。我们发现56和273 RPS候选人的光谱和光度红移的样本,分别分布在整个集群,并倾向于避免高密度区域。相空间图给出了维里化星系、后溅星系和坠落星系的百分比。RPS星系候选者通常表现出相当高的恒星形成率,年轻的年龄和相对较低的质量。这项研究证实,RPS星系主机,平均而言,年轻的恒星星族和强烈形成的恒星相比,非RPS同行。具有光谱学和光度学红移的RPS候选者具有可比性质的事实表明,仅基于多波段光度学就可以收集此类物体的大样本,鉴于未来非常大的成像调查,这是一个有希望的结果。

英文摘要:

The pressure exerted by the ambient hot X-ray gas on cluster galaxies can lead to the presence of ram pressure stripped (RPS) galaxies, characterized by asymmetric shapes, and, in some cases, tails of blue stars and/or X-ray gas, with increased star formation. We searched for such galaxies in the cluster MS 0451.6-0305 at z~0.5, based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging covering a region of about 6x6 Mpc^2, an eight magnitude ground-based catalogue with photometric redshifts, and a spectroscopic redshift catalogue. We defined as cluster members a spectroscopic redshift sample of 359 galaxies within 4sigma_v of the mean cluster velocity, and a photometric redshift sample covering the [0.48,0.61] range. We searched for RPS galaxies and tested the error on their classification with a Zooniverse collaboration, and computed the phase space diagram for the spectroscopic sample. We ran the LePhare stellar population synthesis code to analyze and compare the properties of RPS and non-RPS galaxies. We find 56 and 273 RPS candidates in the spectroscopic and photometric redshift samples, respectively, distributed throughout the cluster and tending to avoid high density regions. The phase space diagram gives the percentages of virialized, backsplash, and infall galaxies. RPS galaxy candidates typically show rather high star formation rates, young ages, and relatively low masses. This study confirms that RPS galaxies host, on average, younger stellar populations and strongly form stars when compared with non-RPS counterparts. The fact that RPS candidates with spectroscopic and with photometric redshifts have comparable properties shows that large samples of such objects could be gathered based on multi-band photometry only, a promising result in view of future very large imaging surveys.

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