The role of E+A and post-starburst galaxies - II. Spectral energy distributions and comparison with observations

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2009-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0909v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

accepted for publication in MNRAS; 14 pages, 15 figures; Companion paper to "The role of E+A and post-starburst galaxies - I.

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In a previous paper (Falkenberg, Kotulla & Fritze 2009, arXiv:0901.1665) we have shown that the classical definition of E+A galaxies excludes a significant number of post-starburst galaxies. We suggested that analysing broad-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) is a more comprehensive method to select and distinguish poststarburst galaxies than the classical definition of measuring equivalent widths of (Hdelta) and [OII] lines. In this paper we will carefully investigate this new method and evaluate it by comparing our model grid of post-starburst galaxies to observed E+A galaxies from the MORPHS catalog. We find that the post-starburst models can be distinguished from undisturbed spiral, S0 and E galaxies and galaxies in their starburst phase on the basis of their SEDs. It is even possible to distinguish most of the different post-starburst by their SEDs. From the comparison with observations we find that all observed E+A galaxies from the MORPHS catalog can be matched by our models. However only models with short decline timescales for the star formation rate are possible scenarios for the observed E+A galaxies in agreement with our results from the first paper (see Falkenberg, Kotulla & Fritze 2009a). (abridged)

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