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利用业余望远镜的深度成像观测近邻旋涡星系周围的恒星潮汐流

Stellar tidal streams around nearby spiral galaxies with deep imaging from amateur telescopes

David Martinez-Delgado, Michael Stein, Joanna D. Sakowska, M. Maurice Weigelt, Javier Roman, Giuseppe Donatiello, Santi Roca-Fabrega, Mischa Schirmer, Eva K. Gr… 展开作者

David Martinez-Delgado, Michael Stein, Joanna D. Sakowska, M. Maurice Weigelt, Javier Roman, Giuseppe Donatiello, Santi Roca-Fabrega, Mischa Schirmer, Eva K. Grebel, Teymoor Saifollahi, Jeff Kanipe, M. Angeles Gomez-Flechoso, Mohammad Akhlaghi, Behnam Javanmardi, Gang Wu, Sepideh Eskandarlou, Dominik J. Bomans, Cristian Henkel, Adam Block, Mark Hanson, Johannes Schedler, Karel Teuwen, R. Jay GaBany, Alvaro Ibañez Perez, Ken Crawford, Wolfgang Promper, Manuel Jimenez, Silvia Farras-Aloy, Juan Miro-Carretero

AI总结:

本研究利用业余望远镜深度成像对15个近邻银河系类似星系开展STSS巡天,发现了多种未报告的暗弱潮汐特征及超弥散星系,证明业余望远镜能有效探测星系外围结构,为检验星系形成模型提供更大样本。

摘要:

在以 Lambda 冷暗物质(L-Cold Dark Matter)为宇宙学模型的宇宙中,大质量星系与其卫星星系之间的潮汐相互作用是基本过程,它将物质重新分配为暗弱特征,这些特征保存了过去星系相互作用的记录。虽然本星系群中的恒星流令人印象深刻地展示了卫星星系的瓦解过程,但它们并不构成具有统计显著性的样本。由于难以获取星系的深度广角图像,在本星系群之外构建一个庞大的恒星流目录仍然具有挑战性。尽管恒星流具有揭示暗物质分布和星系形成过程的潜力,但作为宇宙学探针,它们仍未得到充分利用。恒星潮汐流巡天(STSS)利用业余望远镜获取星系外围的深度科学级图像,能够建立一个更具统计学意义的恒星流样本,从而填补了这一观测空白。在过去十年中,STSS 利用一个机器人业余望远镜网络,获取了 15 个近邻银河系类似星系的深度(r 波段面亮度极限达 28.3 mag/arcsec^2)广角图像,避免了与拼接专业望远镜拍摄的小视场图像相关的问题。我们的巡天揭示了一系列以前未报告过的与矮卫星星系吸积相关的暗弱特征,包括恒星流、壳层和伞状结构。我们发现了一个超弥散星系(NGC150-UDG1),它显示出潮汐尾的迹象。STSS 证明了现代业余望远镜适合探测和研究近邻旋涡星系周围大视场中的暗弱、弥散结构。其经济性和可及性优势使得通过深度成像获取更大样本成为可能,这对于检验星系形成模型和约束局部宇宙中小规模并合事件的性质至关重要。

英文摘要:

Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions. While stellar streams in the Local Group impressively demonstrate satellite disruption, they do not constitute a statistically significant sample. Constructing a substantial catalog of stellar streams beyond the Local Group remains challenging due to the difficulties in obtaining deep, wide-field images of galaxies. Despite their potential to illuminate dark matter distribution and galaxy formation processes, stellar streams remain underutilized as cosmological probes. The Stellar Tidal Stream Survey (STSS) addresses this observational gap by leveraging amateur telescopes to obtain deep, scientific-grade images of galactic outskirts, capable of building a more statistically meaningful sample of stellar streams. Over the last decade, the STSS has acquired deep (up to surface brightness limit 28.3 mag/arcsec^2 in the r-band), wide-field images of 15 nearby Milky Way analog galaxies using a network of robotic amateur telescopes, avoiding the issues associated with "mosaicing" smaller images taken with a professional telescope. Our survey has revealed a diverse range of previously unreported faint features related to dwarf satellite accretion - including stellar streams, shells, and umbrella-like structures. We discover an ultra-diffuse galaxy (NGC150-UDG1), which shows hints of tidal tails. The STSS demonstrates the suitability of modern amateur telescopes to detect and study faint, diffuse structures in large fields around nearby spiral galaxies. Their economic and accessibility advantages enable larger samples with deep imaging, essential for testing galaxy formation models and constraining the properties of minor merger events in the local Universe.

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