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解析的紫外与光学颜色梯度揭示红移 z$\sim$1.6 处环境对星系演化的影响

Resolved UV and optical color gradients reveal environmental influence on galaxy evolution at redshift z$\sim$1.6

William J. Cramer, A. G. Noble, G. Rudnick, A. Pigarelli, G. Wilson, Y. M. Bahé, M. C. Cooper, R. Demarco, J. Matharu, T. B. Miller, A. Muzzin, J. Nantais, W. S… 展开作者

William J. Cramer, A. G. Noble, G. Rudnick, A. Pigarelli, G. Wilson, Y. M. Bahé, M. C. Cooper, R. Demarco, J. Matharu, T. B. Miller, A. Muzzin, J. Nantais, W. Sportsman, E. van Kampen, T. M. A. Webb, H. K. C. Yee

AI总结:

本文比较 z~1.6 的125个星系团星系与200个场星系的 HST 空间解析颜色,发现星系团星系内外紫外颜色更红且 outside-in 梯度离散更宽,表明环境影响恒星族群或尘埃。

摘要:

星系内部颜色的变化与其形成、增长、熄灭历史及尘埃含量密切相关。星系增长过程中一个尤为重要的时期是在 $z \sim 2$ 附近,通常被称为“宇宙正午”,此时星系平均达到恒星形成的峰值。我们利用哈勃空间望远镜(HST)的三个滤光片 F475W、F625W 和 F160W,研究了 $z \sim 1.6$ 处由125个星系团星系组成的样本;这三个滤光片大致分别对应静止系 FUV、NUV 和 r 波段。通过与相近红移处包含200个场星系的对照样本进行比较,我们揭示了这两种不同环境中星系在整体空间解析颜色和颜色梯度上清晰且具有统计显著性的差异。平均而言,在以 $r_{\mathrm{50}}$ 为界的内部和外部区域,星系团星系均具有更红的紫外颜色,并且 outside-in 颜色梯度的整体离散范围更宽。这些观测到的差异,连同以往研究中辅助数据提供的证据,有力表明环境通过影响恒星族群和/或尘埃含量,导致了这些族群层面的颜色差异。

英文摘要:

The changes in colors across a galaxy are intimately connected to the galaxy's formation, growth, quenching history, and dust content. A particularly important epoch in the growth of galaxies is near $z \sim 2$ often referred to as `cosmic noon', where galaxies on average reach the peak of their star formation. We study a population of 125 cluster galaxies at $z \sim 1.6$ in three Hubble Space Telescope (HST) filters, F475W, F625W, and F160W, roughly corresponding to the rest-frame FUV, NUV, and r band, respectively. By comparing to a control sample of 200 field galaxies at similar redshift, we reveal clear, statistically significant differences in the overall spatially resolved colors and color gradients in galaxies across these two different environments. On average, cluster galaxies have redder UV colors in both the inner and outer regions bounded by $r_{\mathrm{50}}$, as well as an overall wider dispersion of outside-in color gradients. The presence of these observed differences, along with evidence from ancillary data from previous studies, strongly suggests that the environment drives these population-level color differences, by affecting the stellar populations and/or dust content.

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