Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-06-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
please find a high-resolution version at the following link: http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/sauron/papers/ganda2007_late_types_
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12121.x
We present absorption line-strength maps for a sample of 18 Sb-Sd galaxies observed using the integral-field spectrograph SAURON. The SAURON spectral range allows the measurement of the Lick/IDS indices Hbeta, Fe5015 and Mgb, which can be used to estimate the stellar population parameters. We present here the two-dimensional line-strength maps for each galaxy. From the maps, we learn that late-type spiral galaxies tend to have high Hbeta and low Fe5015 and Mgb values, and that the Hbeta index has often a positive gradient over the field, while the metal indices peak in the central region. We investigate the relations between the central line-strength indices and their correlations with morphological type and central velocity dispersion, and compare the observed behaviour with that for ellipticals, lenticulars and early-type spirals from the SAURON survey. We find that our galaxies lie below the Mg - sigma relation determined for elliptical galaxies and that the indices show a clear trend with morphological type. From the line-strength maps we calculate age, metallicity and abundance ratio maps and discuss the results from a one-SSP approach and from a two-SSP approach. Late-type galaxies are generally younger and more metal poor than ellipticals and have abundance ratios closer to solar values. We also explore a continuous star formation scenario, and try to recover the star formation history using the evolutionary models of Bruzual & Charlot (2003), assuming constant or exponentially declining star formation rate (SFR). We find a correlation between the e-folding time-scale tau of the starburst and the central velocity dispersion: more massive galaxies tend to have shorter tau, suggesting that the star formation happened long ago and has now basically ended, while for smaller objects with larger values of tau it is still active.
Bacon Roland
Cappellari Michele
Davies Roger L.
de Zeeuw Tim P.
Emsellem Eric
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