Stellar populations in gas-rich galaxy mergers II. Feedback effects of Type Ia and II supernovae

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1998-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811124v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

58 pages 16 figures, ApJ in press (March 1999 issue)

Scientific paper

10.1086/306833

We numerically investigate chemodynamical evolution of major disk-disk galaxy mergers in order to explore the origin of mass-dependent chemical, photometric, and spectroscopic properties observed in elliptical galaxies. We particularly investigate the dependence of the fundamental properties on merger progenitor disk mass (M_d). Main results obtained in this study are the following three. (1) More massive (luminous) ellipticals formed by galaxy mergers between more massive spirals have larger metallicity (Z) and thus show redder colors: The typical metallicity ranges from ~ 1.0 solar abundance (Z~ 0.02) for ellipticals formed by mergers with M_d = 10^10 M_solar to ~ 2.0 solar (Z ~ 0.04) for those with M_d = 10^12 M_solar. (2) The absolute magnitude of negative metallicity gradients developed in galaxy mergers is more likely to be larger for massive ellipticals. Absolute magnitude of metallicity gradient correlates with that of age gradient in ellipticals in the sense that an elliptical with steeper negative metallicity gradient is more likely to show steeper age gradient. (3) Both M/L_B and M/L_K, where M, L_B, and L_K are total stellar mass of galaxy mergers, B-band luminosity, and K-band one, respectively, depend on galactic mass in such a way that more massive ellipticals have larger M/L_B and smaller M/L_K.

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