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In recent years the evolution of dust-enshrouded galaxies has become an important issue in cosmology. We present the results
of a study linking the high- and low-redshift populations of such galaxies. Previously, a simple hierarchical clustering model
was found to be successful in describing the high-redshift populations of dusty galaxies. This study showed that strong evolution
could not be avoided in order to satisfy all the high-redshift infrared and submillimetre constraints. We now apply the same
model to the low-redshift data available, and find that the strong evolution inferred is compatible with the count and redshift
data we have from IRAS and ISO.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Raul Jimenez Chris Flynn & Eira Kotoneva 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,299(2):515-519
We use the Hipparcos colour–magnitude diagram of field stars with Tycho colours to make a new minimum age estimate for the Galactic disc. The method is based on fits to the red envelope of subgiants in the Hipparcos colour–magnitude diagram with synthetic isochrones covering the range of disc metal abundance. The colours and luminosities of the isochrones as a function of abundance are checked using new techniques involving 'red-clump' stars in the giant branch region and on the main sequence using G and K dwarfs. We derive a minimum disc age of 8 Gyr, in good agreement with other methods. 相似文献
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Nazirah N. Jetha Irini Sakelliou Martin J. Hardcastle Trevor J. Ponman Ian R. Stevens 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,358(4):1394-1404
We present Chandra and Very Large Array observations of two galaxy clusters, Abell 160 and Abell 2462, whose brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) host wide angle tailed radio galaxies (WATs). We search for evidence of interactions between the radio emission and the hot, X-ray emitting gas, and we test various jet termination models. We find that both clusters have cool BCGs at the cluster centre, and that the scale of these cores (∼30–40 kpc for both sources) is of approximately the same scale as the length of the radio jets. For both sources, the jet flaring point is coincident with a steepening in the host cluster's temperature gradient, and similar results are found for 3C 465 and Hydra A. However, none of the published models of WAT formation offers a satisfactory explanation as to why this may be the case. Therefore, it is unclear what causes the sudden transition between the jet and the plume. Without accurate modelling, we cannot ascertain whether the steepening of the temperature gradient is the main cause of the transition, or merely a tracer of an underlying process. 相似文献
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Agostino Renda Daisuke Kawata Yeshe Fenner Brad K. Gibson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,356(3):1071-1078
The chemical evolution history of a galaxy hides clues about how it formed and has been changing through time. We have studied the chemical evolution history of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) to find which are common features in the chemical evolution of disc galaxies as well as which are galaxy-dependent. We use a semi-analytic multizone chemical evolution model. Such models have succeeded in explaining the mean trends of the observed chemical properties in these two Local Group spiral galaxies with similar mass and morphology. Our results suggest that while the evolution of the MW and M31 shares general similarities, differences in the formation history are required to explain the observations in detail. In particular, we found that the observed higher metallicity in the M31 halo can be explained by either (i) a higher halo star formation efficiency (SFE), or (ii) a larger reservoir of infalling halo gas with a longer halo formation phase. These two different pictures would lead to (i) a higher [O/Fe] at low metallicities, or (ii) younger stellar populations in the M31 halo, respectively. Both pictures result in a more massive stellar halo in M31, which suggests a possible correlation between the halo metallicity and its stellar mass. 相似文献
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C. Tadhunter T. G. Robinson R. M. González Delgado K. Wills R. Morganti 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,356(2):480-494
We present high-quality long-slit spectra for three nearby powerful radio galaxies – 3C 293, 3C 305 and PKS 1345+12. These were taken with the aim of characterizing the young stellar populations (YSP), and thereby investigating the evolution of the host galaxies, as well as the events that triggered the activity. Isochrone spectral synthesis modelling of the wide wavelength coverage spectra of nuclear and off-nuclear continuum-emitting regions have been used to estimate the ages, masses and luminosities of the YSP component, taking full account of reddening effects and potential contamination by activity-related components. We find that the YSP make a substantial contribution to the continuum flux in the off-nuclear regions on a radial scale of 1–20 kpc in all three objects. Moreover, in two objects we find evidence for reddened post-starburst stellar populations in the near-nuclear regions of the host galaxies. The YSP are relatively old (0.1–2 Gyr), massive (109 < M YSP < 2 × 1010 M⊙ ) and make up a large proportion (∼1–50 per cent) of the total stellar mass in the regions of the galaxies sampled by the observations. Overall, these results are consistent with the idea that the nuclear activity of active galactic nuclei in some radio galaxies is triggered by major gas-rich mergers. Therefore, these radio galaxies form part of the subset of early-type galaxies that is evolving most rapidly in the local Universe. Intriguingly, the results also suggest that the radio jets are triggered relatively late in the merger sequence, and that there is an evolutionary link between radio galaxies and luminous/ultraluminous infrared galaxies. 相似文献
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We performed an extensive non-LTE analysis of the neutral sodium lines of Na I 5683/5688, 5890/5896, 6154/6161, and 8183/8195 in disk/halo stars of types F-K covering a wide metallicity range (-4 (?) [Fe/H] (?) +0.4), using our own data as well as data collected from the literature. For comparatively metal-rich disk stars (-1(?) [Fe/H] (?) +0.4) where the weaker 6154/6161 lines are the best abundance indicators, we confirmed [Na/Fe]- 0 with an "upturn" (i.e., a shallow/broad dip around -0.5 (?) [Fe/H](?) 0) as already reported in previous studies. For the metal-deficient halo stars, where the much stronger 5890/5896 or 8183/8195 lines subject to considerable (negative) non-LTE corrections amounting to 0.5 dex have to be used, our analysis suggests mildly "subsolar" [Na/Fe] values down to--0.4 (with a somewhat large scatter of-±0.2 dex) on the average at the typical halo metallicity of [Fe/H] --2, followed by a rise again to a near-solar ratio of [Na/Fe] - 0 at the very metal-poor regime [Fe/H]--3 to -4 相似文献
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We discuss the properties of the galaxies in about 60 rich, nearby clusters, using kinematic data from the ESO Nearby Abell
Cluster Survey, combined with new imaging data. The images were used to classify the galaxies, and to recalibrate the galaxy
types derived from the ENACS spectra; this yields galaxy-type estimates for about4800 galaxies. For about 1200 galaxies, a
bulge/disk decomposition could be made, which yields sizes and luminosities of bulges and disks. From the projected radial
distances and relative l.o.s.-velocities we derived the galaxy ensembles with significantly different phase-space distributions.
We find that galaxies in and outside substructure must be distinguished. The morphological composition of the substructures
appears to vary with projected radius. Outside substructures, 4 galaxy ensembles must be defined: viz. the brighest Es, the
other early-type galaxies, the early spirals(Sa-Sb), and the late spirals (including the emission-line galaxies). We also
study the morphology-density relation, and we find that the segregation of the late spirals is driven mostly by global factors,
while the segregation of Es, S0s and early spirals is driven mostly by local density. The properties of early spirals and
S0ssupport the picture in which early spirals transform into S0s, while the properties of the late spirals do not support
such a relation.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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S. García-Burillo F. Combes J. Graciá-Carpio A. Usero M. Guélin 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2008,313(1-3):261-265
High-resolution CO maps are an essential tool to search for observational evidence of AGN fueling in galaxy nuclei. While
their capabilities will be surpassed by ALMA, current mm-interferometers can already provide relevant information on scales
which are critical for the process of angular momentum transfer in fueling the AGN. In this context we present the latest
results issued from the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) project, a high-resolution (0.5′′–1′′) CO survey of low luminosity AGNs conducted with the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI). The use of more specific
molecular tracers of dense gas can probe the feedback influence of activity on the chemistry and energy balance in the interstellar
medium of nearby galaxies, a prerequisite to understanding how feedback operate at higher redshift galaxies. We discuss the
results obtained in an ongoing study devoted to probe the feedback of activity from nearby Seyferts to high-redshift QSO. 相似文献