Stellar subsystems of different ages in spiral and irregular galaxies

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012astl...38..147t&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Letters, Volume 38, Issue 3, pp.147-156

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Nearby Galaxies, Galactic Photometry, Stellar Composition Of Galaxies, Thin And Thick Disks

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Based on archival Hubble Space Telescope images, we have performed stellar photometry for eight edge-on spiral and irregular galaxies. We have identified stars of three ages in the derived Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams and constructed their number density distribution perpendicularly to the plane of the galactic disk. The sizes of the stellar subsystems of young (up to 100 Myr), middle (0.1-1.0 Gyr), and old (up to 12 Gyr) ages have been determined. A relationship between the age of a subsystem and its size has been found in all of the galaxies studied. Our results can be explained by the model of galactic thick-disk formation through thin-disk expansion. In this case, the middle-age stellar subsystem is a transitional stage from the thin disk to the thick one.

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