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在COSMOS场中z≈0.15的矮星系的光学光谱学:恒星形成与尘埃性质

Optical Spectroscopy of Dwarf Galaxies at $z\sim 0.15$ in the COSMOS Field: Star Formation and Dust Properties

IPAC, California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院 IPAC);The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science(卡内基科学研究所天文台);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside(加州大学河滨分校物理与天文学系)

Zahra Sattari, Daniel D. Kelson, Bahram Mobasher, Nima Chartab, Vihang Mehta, Harry I. Teplitz, Shannon G. Patel

AI总结:

研究z≈0.15的低质量星系和z≈0.35的中等质量星系的恒星形成率和尘埃特性,发现低质量星系的尘埃含量较低,其尘埃消光行为与恒星质量及特定恒星形成率有关。

摘要:

我们对COSMOS场中z≈0.15的低质量星系(LMGs;10^8≤M*/M_⊙≤10^9)进行了光谱学研究,并将其与z≈0.35的中等质量星系(IMGs;10^9≤M*/M_⊙≤10^10)的对照样本进行比较。我们检查了它们的恒星形成率(SFRs)、尘埃消光特性以及星云和恒星消光之间的关系。对于两个样本,通过Hα测得的SFRs与通过拟合简单恒星形成历史(SFHs)到星系光谱能量分布得到的SFRs之间存在强相关性。在拟合联合SFR-M*关系时,我们得到斜率为Δlog(SFR_Hα)/Δlog(M*/M_⊙)=1.01±0.03,表明这些恒星质量下的SFHs可以很好地用无尺度、自相似形式描述。我们还检查了它们的尘埃消光特性以及星云和恒星消光之间的关系,探讨了这些量如何随恒星质量和特定恒星形成率(sSFR)变化。对于IMGs,星云消光随恒星质量增加,但LMGs的星云消光较低且不依赖质量,这与它们较低的尘埃含量一致。在所有情况下,恒星连续体消光都低于星云消光,这与双组分尘埃模型预期一致。两个样本的星云到恒星色差比与经典因子2.27一致。该比值与质量无关,但在IMGs中随sSFR增加而在LMGs中保持不变。这些结果表明,在LMGs中,有效的恒星形成云分散保持了差消光在sSFR上大致恒定。因此,尽管LMGs遵循与大质量星系相同的全球SFR-M*缩放关系,但它们较低的尘埃含量和反馈维持的星际介质产生了与IMGs不同的消光行为。

英文摘要:

We present a spectroscopic study of low-mass galaxies (LMGs;$10^8\leq\rm M_*/M_\odot\leq10^9$) at $z\sim0.15$ in COSMOS field, and compare it to a control sample of intermediate-mass galaxies (IMGs;$10^9\leq\rm M_*/M_\odot\leq10^{10}$) at $z\sim0.35$. We examine their star formation rates (SFRs), dust attenuation properties, and the relationship between nebular and stellar reddening. For both samples, SFRs derived from H$α$ are strongly correlated with SFRs from fitting simple star formation histories (SFHs) to the galaxies' spectral energy distributions. In fitting a joint SFR-$\rm M_*$ relation, we obtain a slope of $\rm {Δlog(SFR_{Hα})}/{Δlog(M_*/M_\odot)}=1.01\pm0.03$, indicating that fair ensembles of SFHs for galaxies at these stellar masses are well-described by scale-free, self-similar forms. We also examine their dust attenuation properties and the relationship between nebular and stellar reddening, exploring how these quantities vary with stellar mass and specific SFR (sSFR). Nebular attenuation increases with stellar mass for IMGs but is lower and less mass-dependent in LMGs, consistent with their reduced dust content. In all cases, stellar continuum attenuation is lower than nebular attenuation, as expected from the two-component dust model. The nebular-to-stellar color excess ratio in both samples is consistent with the canonical factor of 2.27. The ratio is mass-independent, but rises with sSFR in IMGs and remains constant in LMGs. These results suggest that in LMGs, efficient dispersal of birth clouds keeps the differential attenuation approximately constant across sSFR. Thus, although LMGs follow the same global SFR-$\rm M_*$ scaling as massive galaxies, their lower dust content and feedback-maintained ISM produce distinct attenuation behavior relative to IMGs.

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