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  A study of the central stellar populations of galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA: identification of a subsample with unusually young and massive stars

Kauffmann, G. (2021). A study of the central stellar populations of galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA: identification of a subsample with unusually young and massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(1), 727-740. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1750.

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 Abstract: This paper describes a search for galaxy centres with clear indications of unusual stellar populations with an initial mass function flatter than Salpeter at high stellar masses. Out of a sample of 668 face-on galaxies with stellar masses in the range 1010−1011M⁠, I identify 15 galaxies with young- to intermediate-age central stellar populations with unusual stellar population gradients in the inner regions of the galaxy. In these galaxies, the 4000-Å break is either flat or rising towards the centre of the galaxy, indicating that the central regions host evolved stars, but the H α equivalent width also rises steeply in the central regions. The ionization parameter [O iii]/[O ii] is typically low in these Galactic Centres, indicating that ionizing sources are stellar rather than AGN. Wolf–Rayet features characteristic of hot young stars are often found in the spectra and these also get progressively stronger at smaller galactocentric radii. These outliers are compared to a control sample of galaxies of similar mass with young inner stellar populations, but where the gradients in H α equivalent width and 4000-Å break follow each other more closely. The outliers exhibit central Wolf–Rayet red bump excesses much more frequently, they have higher central stellar and ionized gas metallicities, and they are also more frequently detected at 20-cm radio wavelengths. I highlight one outlier where the ionized gas is clearly being strongly perturbed and blown out either by massive stars after they explode as supernovae, or by energy injection from matter falling on to a black hole.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2021-06-22
 Publication Status: Published online
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1750
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Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  Abbreviation : Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 506 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 727 - 740 Identifier: ISSN: 0035-8711
ISSN: 1365-8711