Ultraviolet emission and star formation in Stephan's Quintet

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作者
Xu, CK
Iglesias-Páramo, J
Burgarella, D
Rich, RM
Neff, SG
Lauger, S
Barlow, TA
Bianchi, L
Byun, YI
Forster, K
Friedman, PG
Heckman, TM
Jelinsky, PN
Lee, YW
Madore, BF
Malina, RF
Martin, DC
Milliard, B
Morrissey, P
Schiminovich, D
Siegmund, OHW
Small, T
Szalay, AS
Welsh, BY
Wyder, TK
机构
[1] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Lab Astrophys Marseille, F-13376 Marseille 12, France
[3] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[4] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astron & Solar Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[5] Johns Hopkins Univ, Ctr Astrophys Sci, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[6] Yonsei Univ, Ctr Space Astrophys, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[7] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[9] Observ Carnegie Inst Washington, Pasadena, CA 91101 USA
[10] CALTECH, NASA, IPAC Extragalact Database, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
关键词
galaxies : active; galaxies : interactions; galaxies : ISM; galaxies : starburst; intergalactic medium; stars : formation;
D O I
10.1086/425130
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We present the first Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) UV images of the well-known interacting group of galaxies, Stephan's Quintet (SQ). We detect widespread UV emission throughout the group. However, there is no consistent coincidence between UV structure and emission in the optical, Halpha, or H I. Excluding the foreground galaxy NGC 7320 (Sd), most of the UV emission is found in regions associated with the two spiral members of the group, NGC 7319 and NGC 7318b, and the intragroup medium starburst SQ-A. The extinction-corrected UV data are analyzed to investigate the overall star formation activity in SQ. We find that the total star formation rate (SFR) of SQ is 6.69 +/- 0.65 M. yr(-1). Of this, 1.34 +/- 0.16 M. yr(-1) is due to SQ-A. This is in excellent agreement with that derived from the extinction-corrected Halpha luminosity of SQ-A. The SFR in regions related to NGC 7319 is 1.98 +/- 0.58 M. yr(-1), most of which (68%) is contributed by the disk. The contribution from the "young tail" is only 15%. In the UV, the young tail is more extended (similar to100 kpc) and shows a looplike structure, including the optical tail, the extragalactic H II regions recently discovered in Halpha, and other UV emission regions discovered for the first time. The UV and optical colors of the "old tail" are consistent with a single stellar population of age t similar or equal to 10(8.5+/-0.4) yr. The UV emission associated with NGC 7318b is found in a very large (similar to80 kpc) disk, with a net SFR of 3.37 +/- 0.25 M. yr(-1). Several large UV emission regions are 30-40 kpc away from the nucleus of NGC 7318b. Although both NGC 7319 and NGC 7318b show peculiar UV morphology, their SFR is consistent with that of normal Sbc galaxies, indicating that the strength of star formation activity is not enhanced by interactions.
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