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1.
N. A. Tikhonov 《Astronomy Reports》2006,50(7):517-525
Stellar photometry obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope is used to study the distributions of the number densities of
stars of various ages in 12 irregular and dwarf spiral galaxies viewed edge-on. Two subsystems can be distinguished in all
the galaxies: a thin disk comprised of young stars and a thick disk containing a large fraction of old stars (primarily red
giants) in the system. Variations of the stellar number density in the thin and thick disks in the Z direction perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy follow an exponential law. The size of the thin disk corresponds to the
visible size of the galaxy at the μ = 25 mag/arcsec2 isophote, while the thick disk is a factor of two to three larger. In addition to a thick disk, the massive irregular galaxy
M82 also has a more extended stellar halo that is flattened at the galactic poles. The results of our previous study of 12
face-on galaxies are used together with the new results presented here to construct an empirical model for the stellar structure
of irregular galaxies.
Original Russian Text ? N.A. Tikhonov, 2006, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 83, No. 7, pp. 579–588. 相似文献
2.
N. A. Tikhonov 《Astronomy Reports》2018,62(10):637-647
Stellar photometry of 53 low-mass spiral and irregular galaxies has been carried out using archival frames obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. Young and old stars (blue supergiants and red giants) are distinguished on the resulting Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams, and the spatial sizes of the subsystems formed by these stars are determined. A correlation is found between the metallicities of red giants and the difference between the linear sizes of stellar systems of different ages. This dependence can be explained if the sizes of stellar subsystems expand over the lifetimes of galaxies, as well as the influence of the relationship between the mass of a galaxy and the metallicity of its stars. 相似文献
3.
Two-color photometric data obtained on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are used to analyze the
structure of 13 large disk galaxies in the NGC 80 group. Nine of the 13 studied galaxies are classified as lenticular galaxies.
The stellar populations in the galaxies are very diverse, from old stars with ages of T > 10 billion years (IC 1541) to relatively young stars with ages of T ∼ 1–3 billion years (IC 1548, NGC 85); in one case, star formation is ongoing (UCM 0018+2216). In most of the studied galaxies,
more precisely in all of them brighter than M
B ∼ −18, two-tiered stellar disks are detected, whose radial surface-brightness profiles can be described by two exponential
segments with different characteristic scales—shorter near the center and longer at the periphery. All of the dwarf S0 galaxies
with single-tiered disks are close companions to larger galaxies. Except for this fact, no dependence of the properties of
S0 galaxies on distance from the center of the group is found. Morphological signs of a “minor merger” are found in the lenticular
galaxy NGC 85. Based on these last two results, it is concluded that the most probable mechanism for their transformation
of spiral into lenticular galaxies in groups is gravitational (minor mergers and tidal interactions). 相似文献
4.
We analyze models for quasi-stationary, ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities 1038–1040 erg/s exceeding the Eddington limit for a ～1.4M⊙ neutron star. With the exception of relatively rare stationary ULXs that are associated with supernova remnants or background quasars, most ULXs are close binary systems containing a massive stellar black hole (BH) that accretes matter donated by a stellar companion. To explain the observed luminosities of ～1040 erg/s, the mass of the BH must be ～40M⊙ if the accreted matter is helium and ～60M⊙ if the accreted matter has the solar chemical composition. We consider donors in the form of main-sequence stars, red giants, red supergiants, degenerate helium dwarfs, heavy disks that are the remnants of disrupted degenerate dwarfs, helium nondegenerate stars, and Wolf-Rayet stars. The most common ULXs in galaxies with active star formation are BHs with Roche-lobe-filling main-sequence companions with masses ～7M⊙ or close Wolf-Rayet companions, which support the required mass-exchange rate via their strong stellar winds. The most probable candidate ULXs in old galaxies are BHs surrounded by massive disks and close binaries containing a BH and degenerate helium-dwarf, red-giant, or red-supergiant donor. 相似文献
5.
Surface photometry data are presented for 12 southern lenticular galaxies located in regions of low density. Digital images in the gri bands were obtained on the LCOGT network of meter-class telescopes. Structural parameters of the global stellar disks of the galaxies are calculated—the exponential scale and relative thickness. The presence of substructure in the disks is noted; in particular, more than half the studied galaxies possess ring structures, sometimes more than one. The color maps presented indicate complex evolution of the substructure of the disks of lenticular galaxies: they can be classified as blue (ongoing star formation) or red (concentration of dust). The rings do not always lie in the main plane of the disk; there are cases of clearly inclined, or even polar, compact rings. 相似文献
6.
Results of numerical simulations of a collision of the gaseous components of two identical disk galaxies during a head-on
collision of the galaxies in the polar direction are presented. When the relative velocity of the galaxy collision is small,
their gaseous components merge. At high relative velocities (100–500 km/s), the massive stellar components of the galaxies
(M
g
= 109
M
⊙) pass through each other nearly freely, leaving behind the gaseous components, which are decelerated and heated by the collision.
If the overall gaseous component of the colliding galaxies is able to cool to the virial temperature during the collision,
a new galaxy forms. At velocities V ≥ 500 km/s, the gaseous component does not have time to cool, and the gas is scattered into intergalactic space, supplying
it with heavy elements produced in supernovae in the colliding galaxies. High-velocity (V ≥ 100 km/s) collisions of identical low-mass galaxies (M
g
≤ 109
M
⊙) whose mass is dominated by the mass of gas lead to the disruption of their stellar components. The overall gaseous component
forms a new galaxy when V ≤ 500 km/s, and is scattered into intergalactic space if the velocity becomes higher than this. A galaxy collision increases
the star-formation rates in the disk galaxies by nearly a factor of 100. Rotation of the colliding galaxies in the same direction
increases the changes of the disruption of both the stellar and gaseous components of the galaxies. The merger of galaxies
during their collision can explain the presence of gaseous disks rotating opposite to the rotation of the stellar component
in some ordinary elliptical galaxies. Moreover, galaxy mergers can help explain the origin of a comparatively young stellar
population in some elliptical galaxies. 相似文献
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8.
A. S. Gusev 《Astronomy Reports》2006,50(3):182-193
The results of multicolor surface photometry of the S0 galaxies NGC 524, NGC 1138, and NGC 7280 and the spiral galaxies NGC 532, NGC 783, and NGC 1589 are analyzed. UBVRI observations were acquired with the 1.5-m telescope of the Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan), while JHK data were taken from the 2MASS catalog. The brightness and color distributions in the galaxies are analyzed. Extinction in dust lanes in three spiral galaxies is estimated. The contributions of the radiation of the spherical and disk components in different photometric bands are estimated. Two-color diagrams are used to estimate the composition of the stellar populations in various galaxy components. The variations of the color characteristics in the S0 galaxies is due mostly to radial metallicity gradients. 相似文献
9.
Total mass-to-light ratio M/L
B
for S0 — Irr galaxies, whereM is the dynamical mass within the optical radius R
25 (corresponding to 25
m
/sq. arcsec in the B band), increases systematically with (B-V)0 color, but slower than that is predicted by stellar population evolution models without dark halo. It shows that the mean
ratio between dark halo and stellar masses is higher for more “blue“ galaxies. However some galaxies don’t follow this general
trend. The properties of galaxies with extremely high and extremely low values of M/L
B
ratios are compared, and different factors, accounting for the extremes, are analyzed. The conclusion is that in some cases
too high or too low M/L
B
ratios are associated with observational errors, in other cases—with non-typical dark halo mass fraction, and in some cases
— with peculiarities of disc stellar population. Particularly, discs of some galaxies with low M/L
B
ratios turn out to be unusually “light” for their luminosity and colors, which indicates a substantial deficit of low mass
stars as the most probable cause of low M/L
B
. 相似文献
10.
Spectroscopic observations of three lenticular (S0) galaxies (NGC 1167, NGC 4150, and NGC 6340) and one SBa galaxy (NGC 2273) have been taken with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences aimed to study the structure and kinematic properties of early-type disk galaxies. The radial profiles of the stellar radial velocities and the velocity dispersion are measured. N-body simulations are used to construct dynamical models of galaxies containing a stellar disk, bulge, and halo. The masses of individual components are estimated formaximum-mass disk models. A comparison of models with estimated rotational velocities and the stellar velocity dispersion suggests that the stellar disks in lenticular galaxies are “overheated”; i.e., there is a significant excess velocity dispersion over the minimum level required to maintain the stability of the disk. This supports the hypothesis that the stellar disks of S0 galaxies were subject to strong gravitational perturbations. The relative thickness of the stellar disks in the S0 galaxies considered substantially exceed the typical disk thickness of spiral galaxies. 相似文献
11.
Published data on rotation curves and the radial distribution of the surface density of neutral hydrogen (HI) in galaxies
with a low gas content are used to calculate radial profiles of the volume density of HI in the planes of the galactic disks.
A self-consistent model for the disks is used, taking into account the self-gravitation of the gas and the presence of a pseudo-isothermal,
massive halo. Eleven low-surface-brightness (LSB) galaxies and three S0 galaxies in which HI is detected are considered. The
gaseous and stellar disks are taken to be in equilibrium and axially symmetric, and the velocity dispersion in the stellar
disk to be equal to the marginal value for gravitational perturbations; in general, this gives an upper limit for the gas
density. It is shown that, on average, the gas volume densities are two orders of magnitude lower in LSB galaxies than in
galaxies with normal brightnesses at the same R values, while the three S0 galaxies occupy an intermediate position. The volume density of gas observed at the galaxy peripheries
are less than 10−27 g/cm3, even in the plane of the disk. The role of the UV background in ionizing outer regions is discussed. The obtained gas densities
can be used to estimate the star-forming efficiency in regions of low density. 相似文献
12.
A. S. Gusev 《Astronomy Reports》2000,44(9):579-591
We have used surface photometry data for 100 barred galaxies to determine the UBVRIJHK surface brightnesses and color indices for the bars. Two peaks are observed in the distribution of the average bar B brightnesses: at 21.0m/arcsec2 and 22.2m/arcsec2, characteristic of late-and early-type galaxies, respectively. The average surface-brightness difference between the bar and the galaxy (within the 25.0m/arcsec2 isophote) increases from 1.1m/arcsec2 for SB0 galaxies to 2.3m/arcsec2 for SBc-IBm galaxies. In (U-B)0-(B-V)0, (B-V 0-(V-R 0, and (B-V)0-(V-I)0 two-color diagrams, for all morphological types, the bars are shifted leftward from normal color sequence for galaxies. This deviation is more pronounced for the outer than for the inner regions of the bars. Using evolutionary models, we show that this deviation is due to the scarcity of intermediate-age [(1–9)×109 yrs] stars in bars. Possible origins for this anomalous composition of the stellar population are discussed. 相似文献
13.
Quantitative estimates of themaximumallowed totalmasses and sizes of the dark-matter halos in groups and associations of dwarf galaxies—special types of metagalactic populations identified in recent astronomical observations with the Hubble Space Telescope—are presented. Dwarf-galaxy systems are formed of isolated dark-matter halos with a small number of dark galaxies embedded in them. Data on the sizes of these systems and the velocity dispersions of the embedded galaxies can be used to determine lower limits on the total dark-halo masses using the virial theorem. Upper limits follow from the conditions that the systems immersed in the cosmic dark-energy background be gravitationally bound. The median maximum masses are close to 1012 M ⊙ for both groups and associations of dwarf galaxies, although the median virial masses for these two types of systems differ by approximately a factor of ten. 相似文献
14.
We explore the hypothesis that the outer boundaries (“cutoffs”) of the stellar disks observed in many galaxies are determined by the condition of local gravitational (Jeans) stability for the gaseous protodisks at large galactocentric distances. The ratio of the surface density of the disk Σdisk to the critical value for Jeans instability Σcrit is computed for a number of galaxies, assuming that the gas velocity dispersion in the forming disk corresponded to its current thickness and that the disk itself is in a quasi-equilibrium state. The mean estimated stellar velocity dispersion in the vicinity of the cutoff (12 km/s) is close to the typical velocity dispersions of gaseous clouds in disk galaxies. At greater distances, such velocity dispersions should ensure gravitational stability of the disk both at the present epoch and in the past. The cutoff radius of the disk R cut is correlated with other disk parameters, and the ratio Σdisk/Σcrit at R cut is close to unity in most cases. We conclude that the available observational data agree well with the hypothesis that stellar disk cutoffs are due to a rapid decrease in the star-formation rate beyond R cut, where the gaseous disk has always been stable. 相似文献
15.
The influence of close passages of galaxies on the shapes of disk galaxies and the distribution of stars in them is studied for several types of interactions in the framework of the restricted N-body problem. Depending on the conditions adopted, either two spiral density waves or ring structures are formed in the stellar disk of the galaxy. These structures can generate star formation fronts with the corresponding shape, as are observed in disk galaxies. Our calculations can also be applied to study the influence of the passage of a nearby star on a protoplanetary disk. The formation of ring structures there could specify the type of planet formation in the outer regions of the planetary system and the distribution of semimajor axes for the planetary orbits. We use the same model to study the generation and evolution of spiral density waves in the stellar disks of galaxies as a result of the recently found asymmetry of the gravitational potential in the massive dark haloes in disk galaxies. The dipole component of the gravitational field of the halo can continuously permanently generate the spiral structure in disk galaxies. 相似文献
16.
E. P. Kurbatov 《Astronomy Reports》2010,54(7):590-598
The ejection of stars from spheroidal and disk dwarf galaxies resulting from the decay of OB associations is studied. This
has substantial observational consequences for disk galaxies with escape velocities up to 20 km/s, or dynamical masses up
to 108
M
⊙. The ejection of stars can (i) reduce the abundances of the products of Type Ia supernovae and, to a lesser degree, Type
II supernovae, in disk stars, (ii) chemically enrich the galactic halo and intergalactic medium, (iii) lead to the loss of
50% of the stellar mass in galaxies with masses ∼107
M
⊙ and the loss of all stars in systems with masses ≲105
M
⊙, (iv) increase the mass-to-luminosity ratio of the galaxy. 相似文献
17.
N. A. Terekhova 《Astronomy Reports》2012,56(7):504-511
We test the hypothesis put forward by Bosma (1981) that the surface density of dark matter is proportional to the surface density of HI, using decompositions of the rotation curves of a number of galaxies according to the THINGS, along with data for the galaxy NGC 6822. The rotation curves of these galaxies can be explained by assuming the existence of a massive gaseous disk in the absence of a dark halo, although the proportionality factor ??dark/??HI between the surface densities of dark matter and HI is different for different galaxies. However, there emerges the problem of the gravitational stability of galaxies whose stellar-velocity dispersions have been estimated, if the thickness of the dark-matter disk is similar to or less than the thickness of the stellar disk. The proportionality between ?? dark and ??HI is probably due to the fact that the radial profiles of ??HI for galaxies with flat rotational curves are close to the critical density of a gravitationally stable gaseous layer (??HI ?? R ?1), and ??dark(R) for a pseudo-isothermal halo obeys the same law. 相似文献
18.
A. V. Tutukov 《Astronomy Reports》2005,49(1):13-23
The formation and evolution of supermassive (102?1010 M ⊙) black holes (SMBHs) in the dense cores of globular clusters and galaxies is investigated. The raw material for the construction of the SMBHs is stellar black holes produced during the evolution of massive (25?150M ⊙) stars. The first SMBHs, with masses of ～1000M ⊙, arise in the centers of the densest and most massive globular clusters. Current scenarios for the formation of SMBHs in the cores of globular clusters are analyzed. The dynamical deceleration of the most massive and slowly moving stellar-mass (< 100M ⊙) black holes, accompanied by the radiation of gravitational waves in late stages, is a probable scenario for the formation of SMBHs in the most massive and densest globular clusters. The dynamical friction of the most massive globular clusters close to the dense cores of their galaxies, with the formation of close binary black holes due to the radiation of gravitational waves, leads to the formation of SMBHs with masses ? 103 M ⊙ in these regions. The stars of these galaxies form galactic bulges, providing a possible explanation for the correlation between the masses of the bulge and of the central SMBHs. The deceleration of the most massive galaxies in the central regions of the most massive and dense clusters of galaxies could lead to the appearance of the most massive (to 1010 M ⊙) SMBHs in the cores of cD galaxies. A side product of this cascade scenario for the formation of massive galaxies with SMBHs in their cores is the appearance of stars with high spatial velocities (> 300 km/s). The velocities of neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes can reach ～105 km/s. 相似文献
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We investigate the nature of bright radio sources with known radio spectra in the direction of the nearby cluster of galaxies A569 (z=0.0193). The optical identifications of the sources show that 45% of these radio sources are associated with compact galaxies. A substantial fraction of these galaxies have active nuclei, with the radio emission concentrated toward the galactic center. Some of the cluster galaxies have radio halos, with appreciably weaker radio powers and spectral indices α=0.95±0.2. We compute the magnetic fields in the nuclei and halos of the galaxies for the adopted distance to A569. As expected, the magnetic fields in the galactic halos make a smooth transition to the intergalactic field, while the magnetic fields in the central regions of the galaxies rise sharply toward the nucleus. 相似文献
20.
A. V. Tutukov 《Astronomy Reports》2006,50(6):439-450
We consider the evolution of galaxies in dense galactic clusters. Observations and theoretical estimates indicate that this evolution may be specified to a large extent by collisions between galaxies, as well as interactions between the gaseous components of disk galaxies and intergalactic gas. We analyze collisions between disk galaxies with gaseous components using a simple model based on a comparison of the duration of a collision and the characteristic cooling time for the gas heated by the collision, and also of the relative masses of stars and gas in the colliding disk galaxies. This model is used to analyze scenarios for collisions between disk galaxies with various masses as a function of their relative velocities. Our analysis indicates that galaxies can merge, lose one or both of their gaseous components, or totally disintegrate as a result of a collision; ultimately, a new galaxy may form from the gas lost by the colliding galaxies. Disk galaxies with mass M G and velocities exceeding ～300 (M G/1010 M ⊙)1/2 km/s in intergalactic gas in clusters with densities ～10?27 g/cm3 can lose their gas due to the pressure of inflowing intergalactic gas, thereby developing into E(SO) galaxies. 相似文献