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NGC 6946 中空间分辨的近期恒星形成历史

Spatially-Resolved Recent Star Formation History in NGC 6946

Debby Tran, Benjamin Williams, Emily Levesque, Margaret Lazzarini, Julianne Dalcanton, Andrew Dolphin, Brad Koplitz, Adam Smercina, O. Grace Telford

AI总结:

本文通过哈勃空间望远镜紫外测光数据对 NGC 6946 的颜色-星等图建模,重建了过去 25 Myr 空间分辨的恒星形成历史,发现全局恒星形成率随时间单调下降,并定位了两个贡献显著的最活跃恒星形成区。

摘要:

邻近的正面恒星形成旋涡星系 NGC 6946 因拥有异常多的超新星而被称为“烟花星系”。我们分析了利用哈勃空间望远镜(HST)广域相机 3(WFC3)在 F275W 和 F336W 滤光片下拍摄的图像所测得的空间分辨近紫外(NUV)恒星测光数据。我们对紫外测光的颜色-星等图(CMD)进行建模,以推导 NGC 6946 在过去 25 Myr 内空间分辨的恒星形成历史(SFH)。通过该分析,我们生成了年轻恒星族群空间分布图,并测量了几乎整个年轻恒星盘的近期总恒星形成率(SFR)。我们发现全局 SFR(年龄≤25 Myr)= 13.17 +0.91/-0.79 M⊙/yr。在这一时期内,SFR 最初非常高(16-25 Myr 前为 23.39 +2.43/-2.11 M⊙/yr),随后单调下降至最近 10 Myr 的 5.31 +0.19/-0.17 M⊙/yr。过去 25 Myr 内全局恒星形成率的下降与其他 SFR 指标得到的测量结果一致。我们详细讨论了该星系中两个最活跃的区域,发现它们在过去 6.3 Myr 内分别贡献了总恒星形成的 3% 和 5%。

英文摘要:

The nearby face-on star forming spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is known as the Fireworks Galaxy due to its hosting an unusually large number of supernova. We analyze its resolved near-ultraviolet (NUV) stellar photometry measured from images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) with F275W and F336W filters. We model the color-magnitude diagrams (CMD) of the UV photometry to derive the spatially-resolved star formation history (SFH) of NGC 6946 over the last 25 Myr. From this analysis, we produce maps of the spatial distribution of young stellar populations and measure the total recent star formation rate (SFR) of nearly the entire young stellar disk. We find the global SFR(age$\leq$25 Myr)=$13.17 \substack{+0.91 \\-0.79} M_\odot/\rm yr$. Over this period, the SFR is initially very high ($23.39\substack{+2.43\\-2.11} M_\odot/\rm yr$ between 16-25 Myr ago), then monotonically decreases to a recent SFR of $5.31\substack{+0.19\\-0.17} M_\odot/\rm yr$ in the last 10 Myr. This decrease in global star formation rate over the last 25 Myr is consistent with measurements made with other SFR indicators. We discuss in detail two of the most active regions of the galaxy, which we find are responsible for 3% and 5% of the total star formation over the past 6.3 Myr.

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