GV galaxies UV-optical radial color profiles Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Pan Z.
  2. Li J.
  3. Lin W.
  4. Wang J.
  5. Kong X.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

In this Letter, we analyze the radial ultraviolet-optical color distributions in a sample of low redshift green valley galaxies, with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)+Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images, to investigate how the residual recent star formation is distributed in these galaxies. We find that the dust-corrected u-r colors of early-type galaxies (ETGs) are flat out to R_90_, while the colors monotonously turn blue when r>0.5 R_50_ for late-type galaxies (LTGs). More than half of the ETGs are blue-cored and have remarkable positive NUV-r color gradients, suggesting that their star formations are centrally concentrated. The rest have flat color distributions out to R_90_. The centrally concentrated star formation activity in a large portion of ETGs is confirmed by the SDSS spectroscopy, showing that ~50% of the ETGs have EW(H{alpha})>6.0 {AA}. Of the LTGs, 95% show uniform radial color profiles, which can be interpreted as a red bulge plus an extended blue disk. The links between the two kinds of ETGs, e.g., those objects having remarkable "blue-cores" and those having flat color gradients, are less known and require future investigations. It is suggested that the LTGs follow a general model by which quenching first occurs in the core regions, and then finally extend to the rest of the galaxy. Our results can be re-examined and have important implications for the IFU surveys, such as MaNGA and SAMI.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. catalogs
  3. photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. ultraviolet-photometry
  7. two-color-diagrams
  8. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014ApJ...792L...4P
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17929004

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History

2017-04-13T10:04:01Z
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2017-04-13T10:04:01Z
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