Multiwavelength study of nearly face-on low surface brightness disk galaxies

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作者
Francois Hammer [1 ]
机构
[1] GEPI, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon,92195 Meudon, France
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
galaxies:; evolution—galaxies:; formation—galaxies:; photometry—galaxies:; spiral—galaxies:; statistics—Ultraviolet:; galaxies;
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P152 [恒星天文学、星系天文学];
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070401 ;
摘要
We study the ages of a large sample (1802) of nearly face-on disk low sur- face brightness galaxies (LSBGs) using the evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) model PEGASE with an exponentially decreasing star formation rate to fit their multiwavelength spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from far-ultraviolet (FUV) to near-infrared (NIR). The derived ages of LSBGs are 1–5 Gyr for most of the sample no matter if constant or varying dust extinction is adopted, which are similar to most of the previous studies on smaller samples. This means that these LSBGs formed the ma- jority of their stars quite recently. However, a small part of the sample (~2%–3%) has larger ages of 5–8 Gyr, meaning their major star forming process may have occurred earlier. At the same time, a large sample (5886) of high surface brightness galaxies (HSBGs) are selected and studied using the same method for comparisons. The derived ages are 1–5 Gyr for most of the sample (97%) as well. These results probably mean that these LSBGs have not much different star formation histories from their HSBGs counterparts. However, we should notice that the HSBGs are generally about 0.2 Gyr younger, which could mean that the HSBGs may have undergone more recent star forming activities than the LSBGs.
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页码:1223 / 1241
页数:19
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