Chemical Evolution of Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers |
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| Authors: | K Bekki Y Shioya |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan;(2) Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan |
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| Abstract: | We investigate numerically the chemodynamical evolution of major disc–disc galaxy mergers in order to explore the origin of
the mass-dependent chemical, photometric and spectroscopic properties observed in elliptical galaxies. We investigate especially
the dependence of the fundamental properties on merger progenitor disc mass (M
d). Three main results are obtained in this study:– More massive (luminous) ellipticals formed by galaxy mergers between more
massive spirals have higher metallicity (Z) and thus show redder colours; the typical metallicity ranges from ∼ 1.0 solar abundance (Z∼ 0.02) for ellipticals formed by mergers with M
d = 1010
M
⊙to ∼ 2.0 solar (Z∼ 0.04) for those with M
d= 1012
M
⊙.– Both the Mg2 line index in the central part of ellipticals (R ≤ 0.1 R
e) and the radial gradient of Mg2 (δ Mg2 / δ log R) are more likely to be larger for massive ellipticals. δ Mg2 / δ log R correlates reasonably well with the central Mg2 in ellipticals. For most of the present merger models, ellipticals show a positive radial gradient of the Hβ line index. – Both M/L
B and M/L
K (where M, L
B, and L
K are the total stellar mass of galaxy mergers, the B-band and the K-band luminosities, respectively) depend on galactic mass in such a way that more massive ellipticals have larger M/L
B and smaller M/L
K.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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