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2013MNRAS.428.2949K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 428, 2949-2965 (2013/February-1)
The transmutation of dwarf galaxies: stellar populations.
KOLEVA M., BOUCHARD A., PRUGNIEL P., DE RIJCKE S. and VAUGLIN I.
Abstract (from CDS):
We derive their single stellar population parameters and star formation histories, using the full spectrum fitting technique with two independent population synthesis models. Irrespective of the synthesis models, we find that these dwarfs have a relatively young mean age (around 1-2Gyr) and low metallicities ( ∼ - 0.7 dex). Moreover, they had approximately constant star formation rates until a few Gyr ago, associated with strong metal enrichment during the first few Gyr of their evolution. We compare these results with the results from Koleva et al., who studied dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the same luminosity range. We find that (1) both samples occupy the same region in the luminosity-metallicity relation, (2) the build-up of the stellar mass in both types of galaxies is very similar, with most of the stars already formed 5Gyr ago and (3) contrary to the dEs, TTDs are forming stars at present, but after 1Gyr of passive evolution, their star formation histories would appear identical to that of dEs.
As far as the stellar population is concerned, the transformation of TTDs into dEs is definitely possible. A star-forming dwarf galaxy can be stripped of at least a fraction of its gas, and its star formation rate can be reduced to that of the TTDs of the present sample. Continued gas removal may drive a galaxy to the state of a gas-depleted bona fide dE. However, we cannot exclude a scenario where a star-forming galaxy is rapidly transformed into an early type without passing through a noticeable `transition' phase, as suggested by the relatively small fraction of observed dEs with an interstellar medium. We cannot exclude swinging back and forth between a late-type dwarf and a TTD (in the case of episodic star formation) or an early-type dwarf and a TTD (in the case of gas infall).
Abstract Copyright: © 2012 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2012)
Journal keyword(s): galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: stellar content
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