Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-16
Astrophys.J.Suppl. 134 (2001) 241-262
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
32 pages 25 figures,2001,ApJ,in press. For all 25 PS figures (including fig25.ps), see http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~bekki/r
Scientific paper
10.1086/320851
By performing N-body simulations of chemodynamical evolution of galaxies with dusty starbursts, we investigate photometric evolution of gas-rich major mergers in order to explore the nature of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) with the total infrared luminosity ($L_{\rm IR}$ for $8\sim 1000$ $\mu$m) of $\sim$ $10^{12}$ $L_{\odot}$. Main results are the following three. (1) Global colors and absolute magnitudes the during dusty starburst of a major merger do not change with time significantly, because interstellar dust heavily obscures young starburst populations that could cause rapid evolution of photometric properties of the merger. (2) Dust extinction of stellar populations in a galaxy merger with large infrared luminosity ($L_{\rm IR}$ $>$ $10^{11}$ $L_{\odot}$) is selective in the sense that younger stellar populations are preferentially obscured by dust than old ones. This is because younger populations are located in the central region where a larger amount of dusty interstellar gas can be transferred from the outer gas-rich regions of the merger. (3) Both $L_{\rm IR}$ and the ratio of $L_{\rm IR}$ to $B$ band luminosity $(L_{\rm B}$) increases as the star formation rate increase during the starburst of the present merger model, resulting in the positive correlation between $L_{\rm IR}$ and $L_{\rm IR}/L_{\rm B}$.
Bekki Kenji
Shioya Yasuhiro
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