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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 392, 期 1, 页码 475-482出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14077.x
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galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation
The overabundance of Mg relative to Fe, observed in the nuclei of bright ellipticals, and its increase with galactic mass, poses a serious problem for all current models of galaxy formation. Here, we improve on the one-zone chemical evolution models for elliptical galaxies by taking into account positive feedback produced in the early stages of supermassive central black hole growth. We can account for both the observed correlation and the scatter if the observed anti-hierarchical behaviour of the AGN population couples to galaxy assembly and results in an enhancement of the star formation efficiency which is proportional to galactic mass. At low and intermediate galactic masses, however, a slower mode for star formation suffices to account for the observational properties.
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