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在团簇环境中盘状星系的光度和形态演化的建模

Modelling the photometric and morphological evolution of disc galaxies in the cluster environment

INAF – Padova Astronomical Observatory(INAF帕多瓦天文台);Instituto de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica, UNAM(墨西哥国立自治大学射电天文学与天体物理研究所)

A. Marasco, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani, A. Moretti, M. Gullieuszik, J. Fritz

AI总结:

研究通过构建ΛCDM框架下的简化团簇演化模型,探讨盘状星系在团簇中从蓝旋星系转变为红S0星系的演化过程,发现星系质量与团簇质量比影响星形成淬灭和S0转变的时间尺度。

摘要:

观测表明,星系团中的盘状星系群在过去约7 Gyr内经历了快速演化,从以蓝色螺旋星系为主转变为红S0星系。我们构建了一个简化团簇演化模型,以ΛCDM框架为背景,以约束这一转变的特征时间尺度。在我们的模型中,进入团簇的螺旋星系会受到湍流压力剥离(RPS),这会去除它们的气体储备,导致星形成在时间尺度t_s上淬灭,并通过一个未明确定义的机制在时间尺度t_m上转变为S0星系。我们假设t_s和t_m是独立的,并且都是M_★/M_cl(星系-团簇质量比)的幂律函数。我们通过观测到的在颜色-质量平面上的螺旋星系和S0星系的分布,利用OmegaWINGS和EDISCS团簇调查在z≈0.055和z≈0.7处的数据来约束模型。我们的最佳拟合模型能够很好地再现数据,并预测主要形态分数的演化趋势,与先前研究一致。我们发现t_s通常在0.1到1 Gyr之间,与先前估计一致。为了抑制低红移处红色低质量螺旋星系的形成,需要一种意想不到的反相关性,即t_s与M_★/M_cl之间存在反相关性,这被解释为由轨道各向异性驱动。相反,t_m对M_★/M_cl依赖性很弱,典型值为几Gyr。推导出的形态演化与由星系中恒星群体老化引起的演化一致:我们确认光谱光度老化是星系团中螺旋星系到S0星系转变的关键通道,而 secular evolution 起次要作用。

英文摘要:

Observations indicate that the disc population in galaxy clusters has undergone rapid evolution, transitioning from a dominance of blue spirals to red S0s over the past $\sim7$ Gyr. We build a simplified cluster evolutionary model in the $Λ$CDM framework to constrain the characteristic timescales of this transformation. In our model, field spirals joining the cluster are subject to ram-pressure stripping (RPS), which removes their gas reservoir leading to the quenching of their star formation on a timescale $t_{\rm s}$, and to an (initially) unspecified mechanism that transforms them into S0s on a timescale $t_{\rm m}$. We assume that $t_{\rm s}$ and $t_{\rm m}$ are independent and both power-law functions of $M_\star/M_{\rm cl}$, the galaxy-to-cluster mass ratio. We constrain our model using the observed distribution of spirals and S0s in a color-mass plane from the OmegaWINGS and EDisCS cluster surveys at $z\simeq0.055$ and $z\simeq0.7$. Our best-fit model reproduces the data remarkably well and predicts evolutionary trends for the main morphological fractions in agreement with previous studies. We find typical $t_{\rm s}$ between $0.1$ and $1$ Gyr, compatible with previous estimates. A surprisingly strong anti-correlation between $t_{\rm s}$ and $M_\star/M_{\rm cl}$ is required in order to suppress the formation of red, low-mass spirals at low redshift, which we interpret as driven by orbit anisotropy. Conversely, $t_{\rm m}$ depends very weakly on $M_\star/M_{\rm cl}$ and has typical values of a few Gyr. The inferred morphological evolution is compatible with that resulting from the ageing of the stellar populations in galaxies abruptly quenched by ram pressure stripping: we confirm spectrophotometric ageing as a key channel for the spiral-to-S0 transition in galaxy clusters, with secular evolution playing a secondary role.

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