Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-05-02
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 69
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, figs 1,8,9,10 and 11 in jpeg format
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04633.x
The aim of this paper is to cast light on the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies by means of N-body/hydro-dynamical simulations that include star formation, feed-back and chemical evolution. Particular attention is paid to the case of dwarf spheroidals of the Local Group which, thanks to their proximity and modern ground-based and space instrumentation, can be resolved into single stars so that independent determinations of their age and star formation history can be derived. Dwarf galaxies are known to exhibit complicated histories of star formation ranging from a single very old episode to a series of bursts over most of the Hubble time. We start from virialized haloes of dark matter, and follow the infall of gas into the potential wells and the formation of stars. We find that in objects of the same total mass, different star formation histories are possible, if the collapse phase started at different initial densities. We predict the final structure of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, their kinematics, their large scale distribution of gas and stars, and their detailed histories of the star formation and metal enrichment. Using a population synthesis technique, star formation and metal enrichment rates are then adopted to generate the present color-magnitude diagrams of the stellar populations hosted by dwarf spheroidal galaxies. varying the cosmological parameters $H_0$ and $q_0$. compared with the observational ones for some dwarf spheroidals of the Local Group.
Carraro Giovanni
Chiosi Cesare
Girardi Leo
Lia Cesario
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