On the Structure and Morphology of the “Diffuse Ionized Medium” in Star‐forming Galaxies

1999 ◽  
Vol 515 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Timothy M. Heckman ◽  
Matthew D. Lehnert
2019 ◽  
Vol 630 ◽  
pp. A57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paulino-Afonso ◽  
David Sobral ◽  
Behnam Darvish ◽  
Bruno Ribeiro ◽  
Arjen van der Wel ◽  
...  

We study the impact of local density and stellar mass on the structure and morphology of approximately 500 quiescent and star-forming galaxies from the VIMOS Spectroscopic Survey of a Superstructure in COSMOS (VIS3COS). We perform bulge-to-disc decomposition of the surface brightness profiles and find ∼41 ± 3% of > 1010 M⊙ galaxies to be best fitted with two components. We complement our analysis with non-parametric morphological measurements and qualitative visual classifications. We find that both galaxy structure and morphology depend on stellar mass and environment for our sample as a whole. We only find an impact of the environment on galaxy size for galaxies more massive than 1011 M⊙. We find higher Sérsic indices (n) and bulge-to-total ratios (B/T) in high-density regions when compared to low-density counterparts at similar stellar masses. We also find that galaxies with higher stellar mass have steeper light profiles (high n, B/T) compared to galaxies with lower stellar mass. Using visual classifications, we find a morphology–density relation at z ∼ 0.84 for galaxies more massive than 1010 M⊙, with elliptical galaxies being dominant at high-density regions and disc galaxies more common in low-density regions. However, when splitting the sample into colour–colour-selected star-forming and quiescent sub-populations, there are no statistically significant differences between low- and high-density regions. We find that quiescent galaxies are smaller, have higher Sérsic indices (for single profiles, around n ∼ 4), and higher bulge-to-total light ratios (for decomposed profiles, around B/T ∼ 0.5) when compared to star-forming counterparts (n ∼ 1 and B/T ∼ 0.3, for single and double profiles, respectively). We confirm these trends with non-parametric quantities, finding quiescent galaxies to be smoother (lower asymmetry, lower M20) and to have most of their light over smaller areas (higher concentration and Gini coefficient) than star-forming galaxies. Overall, we find a stronger dependence of structure and morphology on stellar mass than on local density and these relations are strongly correlated with the quenching fraction. The change in average structure or morphology corresponds to a change in the relative fractions of blue disc-like galaxies and red elliptical galaxies with stellar mass and environment. We hypothesise that the processes responsible for the quenching of star formation must also affect the galaxy morphology on similar timescales.


2002 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 333-333
Author(s):  
S. K. Ghosh ◽  
D. K. Ojha ◽  
R. P. Verma

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Saez-Martinez ◽  
Aisling Mann ◽  
Fiona Lydon ◽  
Frank Molock ◽  
Siân A. Layton ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1022-1034
Author(s):  
N. T. Ashimbaeva ◽  
P. Colom ◽  
E. E. Lekht ◽  
M. I. Pashchenko ◽  
G. M. Rudnitskii ◽  
...  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 2953-2964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillem Anglada ◽  
Eva Villuendas ◽  
Robert Estalella ◽  
Maria T. Beltrán ◽  
Luis F. Rodríguez ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 797-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Calzetti ◽  
Christopher J. Conselice ◽  
John S. Gallagher III ◽  
Anne L. Kinney

1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
pp. 2409-2423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Dolan and Robert D. Mathieu
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1998 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Vílchez ◽  
Jorge Iglesias‐Páramo

2020 ◽  
Vol 639 ◽  
pp. A80
Author(s):  
Xiao-Na Sun ◽  
Rui-Zhi Yang ◽  
Yun-Feng Liang ◽  
Fang-Kun Peng ◽  
Hai-Ming Zhang ◽  
...  

We report the detection of high-energy γ-ray signal towards the young star-forming region, W40. Using 10-yr Pass 8 data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT), we extracted an extended γ-ray excess region with a significance of ~18σ. The radiation has a spectrum with a photon index of 2.49 ± 0.01. The spatial correlation with the ionized gas content favors the hadronic origin of the γ-ray emission. The total cosmic-ray (CR) proton energy in the γ-ray production region is estimated to be the order of 1047 erg. However, this could be a small fraction of the total energy released in cosmic rays (CRs) by local accelerators, presumably by massive stars, over the lifetime of the system. If so, W40, together with earlier detections of γ-rays from Cygnus cocoon, Westerlund 1, Westerlund 2, NGC 3603, and 30 Dor C, supports the hypothesis that young star clusters are effective CR factories. The unique aspect of this result is that the γ-ray emission is detected, for the first time, from a stellar cluster itself, rather than from the surrounding “cocoons”.


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