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中等红移宁静星系的平均恒星族年龄与金属丰度

The average stellar population age and metallicity of intermediate-redshift quiescent galaxies

Ivana Damjanov, Margaret J. Geller, Jubee Sohn

AI总结:

利用HectoMAP巡天超过35,000个宁静星系的高信噪比叠加光谱,研究中等红移宁静星系的平均恒星族年龄和金属丰度,揭示D_n4000是年龄的稳健指标,并发现恒星质量与金属丰度、恒星形成历史之间的标度关系。

摘要:

HectoMAP光谱巡天提供了一个独特的、按质量限定的样本,包含超过35,000个宁静星系($D_n4000>1.5$),覆盖红移范围$0.2<z<0.6$。我们根据恒星质量、$D_n4000$和红移将星系划分为不同性质区间,以构建一组高信噪比光谱,代表中等红移处的大质量($M_\ast>10^{10}\\,M_\odot$)宁静星系群。这些高质量的叠加光谱使得全光谱拟合以及相关的平均恒星族年龄和金属丰度提取成为可能。平均星系年龄随中心D$_n4000$的增加而增大,符合预期。该相关性与恒星质量基本无关;因此$D_n4000$是宁静星系恒星族年龄的一个稳健指标。HectoMAP提供了第一个在中等红移处可与$z\sim0$质量完备数据集相比拟的宁静星系样本。从HectoMAP叠加光谱导出的标度关系将恒星年龄和金属丰度与宁静星系恒星质量联系起来,一直延伸到$z\sim0.5$。[O II]发射线等值宽度与恒星年龄之间的反相关,以及恒星年龄随恒星质量的温和增长,支持中等红移宁静系统在质量组装时间尺度上具有较宽的范围。平均而言,最大质量的星系($M_\ast>10^{11}\\, M_\odot$)在更早的时期就组装了其大部分恒星。平均恒星金属丰度随恒星质量的强烈增加,以及$0.2<z<0.4$处[O II]等值宽度与金属丰度之间的相关性,表明较低质量星系更可能具有近期的恒星形成活动;来自大质量恒星的相关反馈影响了这些星系的化学增丰。

英文摘要:

The HectoMAP spectroscopic survey provides a unique mass-limited sample of more than 35,000 quiescent galaxies ($D_n4000>1.5$) covering the redshift range $0.2<z<0.6$. We segregate galaxies in bins of properties based on stellar mass, $D_n4000$, and redshift to construct a set of high signal-to-noise spectra representing massive ($M_\ast>10^{10}\,M_\odot$) quiescent population at intermediate redshift. These high-quality summed spectra enable full spectrum fitting and the related extraction of the average stellar population age and metallicity. The average galaxy age increases with the central D$_n4000$ as expected. The correlation is essentially invariant with stellar mass; thus $D_n4000$ is a robust proxy for quiescent galaxy stellar population age. HectoMAP provides the first quiescent sample at intermediate redshift comparable with $z\sim0$ mass-complete datasets. Scaling relations derived from the HectoMAP summed spectra connect stellar age and metallicity with quiescent galaxy stellar mass up to $z\sim0.5$. Anti-correlation between the equivalent width of the [O II] emission line and stellar age, together with the mild increase in stellar age with stellar mass, supports a broad range of timescales for the mass assembly of intermediate-redshift quiescent systems. On average, the most massive galaxies ($M_\ast>10^{11}\, M_\odot$) assemble the bulk of their stars at earlier epochs. A strong increase in the average stellar metallicity with stellar mass, along with the correlation between the [O II] equivalent width and metallicity at $0.2<z<0.4$, suggests that lower-mass galaxies are more likely to have recent star formation episodes; related feedback from massive stars affects the chemical enrichment of these galaxies.

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