SDSS shocked post-starburst gal. with HST obs. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sazonova E.
  2. Alatalo K.
  3. Rowlands K.
  4. Deustua S.E.
  5. French K.D.,Heckman T.
  6. Lanz L.
  7. Lisenfeld U.
  8. Luo Y.
  9. Medling A.
  10. Nyland K.,Otter J.A.
  11. Petric A.O.
  12. Snyder G.F.
  13. Urry C.M.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

How do galaxies transform from blue, star-forming spirals to red, quiescent early-type galaxies? To answer this question, we analyzed a set of 26 gas-rich, shocked post-starburst galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging in B, I, and H bands and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) i-band imaging of similar depth but lower resolution. We found that post-starbursts in our sample have intermediate morphologies between disk- and bulge-dominated (Sersic n=1.7_-0.0_^+0.3^) and have red bulges, likely due to dust obscuration in the cores. A majority of galaxies in our sample are more morphologically disturbed than regular galaxies (88%, corresponding to >3{sigma} significance) when observed with HST, with asymmetry and Sersic residual flux fraction being the most successful measures of disturbance. Most disturbances are undetected at the lower resolution of SDSS imaging. Although ~27% galaxies are clear merger remnants, we found that disturbances in another ~30% of the sample are internal, caused by small-scale perturbations or dust substructures rather than tidal features, and require high-resolution imaging to detect. We found 2.8{sigma} evidence that asymmetry features fade on timescales ~200Myr, and may vanish entirely after ~750Myr, so we do not rule out a possible merger origin of all post-starbursts given that asymmetric features may have already faded. This work highlights the importance of small-scale disturbances, detected only in high-resolution imaging, in understanding structural evolution of transitioning galaxies.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. hst-photometry
  3. galaxy-classification-systems
  4. redshifted
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. infrared-photometry
  7. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...919..134S
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19190134

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2023-03-14T12:28:11Z
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