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DESI遗产成像巡天中低红移星系的颜色梯度

Colour gradients of low-redshift galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey

Li-Wen Liao, Andrew Cooper

摘要:

星系内的径向颜色梯度来自恒星年龄、金属丰度和尘埃变红的梯度。大样本的颜色梯度从广域成像调查可以补充较小的积分场光谱数据集,并可用于约束星系形成模型。在这里,我们使用来自DESI Legacy Imaging Survey DR 9的测光测量低红移星系(z<0.1)的颜色梯度。我们的样本包括~ 93,000个具有光谱红移的星系和~ 574,000个具有光度红移的星系。我们专注于梯度在径向范围0.5 Re Re,这对应于典型的晚型系统在低红移的内盘。这一区域一直是以前颜色梯度统计研究的重点,最近已被光谱调查,如MANGA探索。我们发现样本中大多数星系的颜色梯度是负的(越靠近中心越红),与文献一致。我们调查颜色梯度,平均$g-r$和$r-z$颜色,$M_r$,$M_\star$,和sSFR之间的经验关系。$M_r$($M_\star$)的梯度强度趋势显示$M_r\sim-21$($\log_{10} \, M_\star/\mathrm{M_\odot}\sim10.5$)附近的拐点。在这个质量以下,颜色梯度随着$M_\star$的增加而变陡,而在更大质量的星系中颜色梯度变浅。我们发现,正梯度(蓝色的恒星在较小的半径)是典型的$M_{\star}\sim10^{8}\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$的星系。我们比较我们的结果年龄和金属丰度梯度在两个数据集来自不同的恒星星族库拟合MANGA光谱,但没有找到明确的共识解释,我们观察到的趋势。这两个MANGA数据集似乎意味着一个显着的贡献,从尘埃红化,特别是解释沿红色序列的颜色梯度的平坦度。

英文摘要:

Radial colour gradients within galaxies arise from gradients of stellar age, metallicity and dust reddening. Large samples of colour gradients from wide-area imaging surveys can complement smaller integral-field spectroscopy datasets and can be used to constrain galaxy formation models. Here we measure colour gradients for low-redshift galaxies (z<0.1) using photometry from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey DR9. Our sample comprises ~93,000 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts and ~574,000 galaxies with photometric redshifts. We focus on gradients across a radial range 0.5 Re to Re, which corresponds to the inner disk of typical late type systems at low redshift. This region has been the focus of previous statistical studies of colour gradients and has recently been explored by spectroscopic surveys such as MaNGA. We find the colour gradients of most galaxies in our sample are negative (redder towards the centre), consistent with the literature. We investigate empirical relationships between colour gradient, average $g-r$ and $r-z$ colour, $M_r$, $M_\star$, and sSFR. Trends of gradient strength with $M_r$ ($M_\star$) show an inflection around $M_r\sim-21$ ($\log_{10} \, M_\star/\mathrm{M_\odot}\sim10.5$). Below this mass, colour gradients become steeper with increasing $M_\star$, whereas colour gradients in more massive galaxies become shallower. We find that positive gradients (bluer stars at smaller radii) are typical for galaxies of $M_{\star}\sim10^{8}\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$. We compare our results to age and metallicity gradients in two datasets derived from fits of different stellar population libraries to MaNGA spectra, but find no clear consensus explanation for the trends we observe. Both MaNGA datasets seem to imply a significant contribution from dust reddening, in particular, to explain the flatness of colour gradients along the red sequence.

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