期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 414, 期 3, 页码 1887-1902出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18489.x
关键词
galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: stellar content; galaxies: structure; ultraviolet: galaxies
资金
- NWO
- Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
- Universite Lyon I
- Universities of Durham, Leiden and Oxford
- Programme National Galaxies
- British Council
- STFC [PP/E001114/1, PP/D005574/1]
- Christ Church Oxford
- Netherlands Research School for Astronomy NOVA
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration [GALEXGI04-0000-0109, PF9-00069, NAS8-03060, NAS5-98034]
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Korea Research Foundation [KRF-C00156]
- Doyak grant [20090078756]
- Royal Society [2007/R2]
- Yale University
- Henry Skynner Junior Research Fellowship
- Royal Society
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Queen's College Oxford
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G004331/1, ST/I003673/1, ST/J002216/1, ST/I001204/1, PP/E003427/1, PP/D005574/1, ST/F009186/1, ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Research Foundation of Korea [314-2008-1-C00156, 2010-0029391, 2009-0078756, 과06A1403] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- STFC [ST/G004331/1, PP/E003427/1, ST/I001204/1, PP/D005574/1, ST/I003673/1, ST/J002216/1, ST/F009186/1, ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Using far-ultraviolet (FUV) and near-ultraviolet (NUV) photometry from guest investigator programmes on the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite, optical photometry from the MDM Observatory and optical integral-field spectroscopy from SAURON, we explore the UV-line-strength relations of the 48 nearby early-type galaxies in the SAURON sample. Identical apertures are used for all quantities, avoiding aperture mismatch. We show that galaxies with purely old stellar populations show well-defined correlations of the integrated FUV - V and FUV - NUV colours with the integrated Mg b and H beta absorption line-strength indices, strongest for FUV - NUV. Correlations with the NUV -V colour, Fe5015 index and stellar velocity dispersion sigma are much weaker. These correlations put stringent constraints on the origin of the UV-upturn phenomenon in early-type galaxies and highlight its dependence on age and metallicity. In particular, despite recent debate, we recover the negative correlation between FUV - V colour and Mg line strength originally publicized by Burstein et al., which we refer to as the 'Burstein relation', suggesting a positive dependence of the UV upturn on metallicity. We argue that the scatter in the correlations is real and present mild evidence that a strong UV excess is preferentially present in slow-rotating galaxies. We also demonstrate that most outliers in the correlations are galaxies with current or recent star formation, some at very low levels. We believe that this sensitivity to weak star formation, afforded by the deep and varied data available for the SAURON sample, explains why our results are occasionally at odds with other recent but shallower surveys. This is supported by the analysis of a large, carefully crafted sample of more distant early-type galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), more easily comparable with current and future large surveys.
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