The UV upturn: From M32 to distant clusters

被引:26
作者
Brown, TM [1 ]
机构
[1] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
关键词
galaxies : evolution; stars : evolution; galaxies : stellar content; ultraviolet : galaxies; ultraviolet : stars; galaxies : abundances;
D O I
10.1023/B:ASTR.0000044324.60467.d2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
I review the observational constraints on the stars responsible for the upturn in the UV spectra of ellipticals, ranging from galaxies in the local Universe to distant clusters. In nearby galaxies, this UV upturn is produced by a minority population of extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars, with the large variations observed in the UV-to-optical flux ratio driven by variations in the number of EHB stars, and not the type of UV-bright stars. Deep UV images of the nearest elliptical galaxy, M32, show that it has a well-populated EHB, even though it has the weakest UV upturn of any known elliptical galaxy. However, M32 suffers from a striking dearth of the hot post-HB stars expected from canonical evolutionary theory. As we observe to larger lookback times in more distant galaxy clusters, the UV upturn fades, as predicted by theories of stellar and galactic evolution, but does so gradually. Because the EHB stars do not appear suddenly in the Universe, their presence is likely driven by a large dispersion in the parameters that govern HB morphology.
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