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三个水母星系的紫外成像观测:中心的恒星形成抑制和剥离尾部的持续恒星形成

Ultraviolet imaging observations of three jellyfish galaxies: Star formation suppression in the centre and ongoing star formation in stripped tails

Koshy George, B. M. Poggianti, Neven Tomičić, J. Postma, P. Côté, J. Fritz, S. K. Ghosh, M. Gullieuszik, J. B. Hutchings, A. Moretti, A. Omizzolo, M. Radovich, … 展开作者

Koshy George, B. M. Poggianti, Neven Tomičić, J. Postma, P. Côté, J. Fritz, S. K. Ghosh, M. Gullieuszik, J. B. Hutchings, A. Moretti, A. Omizzolo, M. Radovich, P. Sreekumar, A. Subramaniam, S. N. Tandon, B. Vulcani

摘要:

当旋涡星系落入星系团势时,它们会经历强烈的冲压压力效应。因此,它们的气体被剥离,形成延伸的尾巴,其中可以发生恒星形成,使它们具有典型的水母外观。水母星系的紫外成像观测提供了一个机会,以了解正在进行的恒星形成的剥离尾巴。本文报道了水母星系JW 39,JO 60,JO 194的紫外观测结果,并与光学连续谱和$\mathrm{H}α$的观测结果进行了比较。我们探测到星系盘和星系尾的恒星形成节,发现它们的UV和H $α$通量有很好的相关性。这些星系的光发射线比率图用于确定每个区域的发射机制,由于恒星形成,LINER或两种现象的混合。在发射线地图上的恒星形成区域与具有显著紫外线通量的区域非常匹配。两个星系(JW 39,JO 194)的中心区域显示出减少的UV通量,这与发射线图中的复合或LINER区域相一致。在这里研究的星系表现出显着的恒星形成在剥离的尾巴,抑制恒星形成的中心区域,并提出了一个可能的情况下,加速淬火发生在水母星系。

英文摘要:

Spiral galaxies undergo strong ram-pressure effects when they fall into the galaxy cluster potential. As a consequence, their gas is stripped to form extended tails within which star formation can happen, giving them the typical jellyfish appearance. The ultraviolet imaging observations of jellyfish galaxies provide an opportunity to understand ongoing star formation in the stripped tails. We report the ultraviolet observations of the jellyfish galaxies JW39, JO60, JO194 and compare with observations in optical continuum and $\mathrm{H}α$. We detect knots of star formation in the disk and tails of the galaxies and find that their UV and H$α$ flux are well correlated. The optical emission line ratio maps of these galaxies are used to identify for every region the emission mechanism, due to either star formation, LINER or a mix of the two phenomena. The star-forming regions in the emission line maps match very well with the regions having significant UV flux. The central regions of two galaxies (JW39, JO194) show a reduction in UV flux which coincides with composite or LINER regions in the emission line maps. The galaxies studied here demonstrate significant star formation in the stripped tails, suppressed star formation in the central regions and present a possible case of accelerated quenching happening in jellyfish galaxies.

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