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The faint outskirts of the blue compact galaxy Haro 11: is there a red excess?
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.
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2010 (Engelska)Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 405, nr 2, s. 1203-1211Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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Previous studies of the low surface brightness host of the blue compact galaxy (BCG) Haro 11 have suggested an abnormally red colour of V - K = 4.2 +/- 0.8 for the host galaxy. This colour is inconsistent with any normal stellar population over a wide range of stellar metallicities (Z = 0.001-0.02). Similar though less extreme host colours have been measured for other BCGs and may be reconciled with population synthesis models, provided that the stellar metallicity of the host is higher than that of the ionized gas in the central starburst. We present the deepest V- and K-band observations to date of Haro 11 and derive a new V - K colour for the host galaxy. Our new data suggest a far less extreme colour of V - K = 2.3 +/- 0.2, which is perfectly consistent with the expectations for an old host galaxy with the same metallicty as that derived from nebular emission lines in the star-forming centre.

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2010. Vol. 405, nr 2, s. 1203-1211
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stellar content, dwarf, photometry, haloes, Haro 11
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-50111DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16525.xISI: 000278677800035OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-50111DiVA, id: diva2:381933
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authorCount :5Tillgänglig från: 2010-12-29 Skapad: 2010-12-21 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-02-24Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. Unveiling the nature of blue compact galaxies
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Unveiling the nature of blue compact galaxies
2012 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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Blue compact galaxies (BCGs) are gas-rich star-forming low redshift galaxies with low metallicities. In some cases the relative strength of the starburst can be so high that it completely dominates the light output of the galaxy, an obstacle which has been countered by deeper optical imaging data and observations in the near infra-red (NIR) regime. This has revealed an older population referred to as the "host". In an effort to study the hosts of BCGs we have analyzed new and extremely deep UBVRIHKs imaging data for 46 high and low luminosity BCGs. For several BCGs the data reveal previously undetected extended low surface brightness components beyond the μB~26 mag arcsec-2 isophote. These are predominantly the luminous BCGs in the sample, and they show tails, plumes, optical bridges between companion galaxies, and other signs of merging or strong tidal interactions. The low luminosity BCGs, on the other hand, are well represented by an exponential disk profile down to the reliability limit of the data at a surface brightness level of μB~28 mag arcsec-2.

The burst and host populations are examined separately. The integrated colors of both are compared to predictions from spectral evolutionary models, giving an indication of their respective ages and metallicities. Our analysis suggests that for the luminous BCGs a strong contribution by nebular emission is present almost down to the Holmberg radius, invalidating the host structural parameters obtained from brighter isophotes. Possible evolutionary links to quiescent galaxies like dEs, dIs, and LSBGs are explored by examining the structural parameters derived from two radial ranges typically assumed to be dominated by the underlying host galaxy. In this parameter space the luminous BCGs in our sample deviate from their low luminosity counterparts and from BCG data in the literature. They are instead consistent with the structural properties of giant low surface brightness galaxies with central surface brightnesses μB≥23 mag arcsec-2. We further examine the asymmetry and concentration parameters for the sample and study the correlation between the minimum asymmetry distribution in the optical and NIR vs morphological class, concentration and integrated colors to identify mergers/tidally interacting galaxies. A shift in the asymmetry distribution occurs for low luminosity BCGs from the optical to the NIR. In contrast, we find that the flocculent asymmetry component (due to star formation) completely dominates the composite asymmetry of high luminosity BCGs. We introduce an alternative asymmetry measure which successfully traces the dynamical asymmetry component (due to merging/tidal interaction) of the host.  

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Stockholm: Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 2012. s. 45
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blue compact galaxies, starbursts, host galaxy, stellar populations, surface photometry, optical and NIR broadband
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Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
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astronomi
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75765 (URN)978-91-7447-525-8 (ISBN)
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2012-06-01, sal FB 55, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 13:00 (Engelska)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript. Paper 5: Manuscript.

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