Stellar Populations of a Sample of Optically Selected AGN-host Dwarf Galaxies

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العنوان: Stellar Populations of a Sample of Optically Selected AGN-host Dwarf Galaxies
المؤلفون: Cai, Wei, Zhao, Yinghe, Zhang, Hong-Xin, Bai, Jin-Ming, Liu, Hong-Tao
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: In this paper we present our studies on the stellar populations and star formation histories (SFHs) for the Reines et al. sample of 136 dwarf galaxies which host active galactic nuclei (AGNs), selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. We derive stellar populations and reconstruct SFHs for these AGN-host dwarfs using the stellar population synthesis code STARLIGHT. Our results suggest that these AGN-host dwarfs have assembled their stellar masses within a narrow period of time with the stellar mass-weighted ages in the range of $10^9-10^{10}$yr, but show a wide diversity of SFHs with the luminosity-weighted stellar ages in the range of $10^7-10^{10}$yr. The old population ($t>10^9$yr) contributes most to the galaxy light for the majority of the sample; the young population ($t<10^8$yr) also appears in significant but widely varying fractions, while the intermediate-age population ($10^8 10^{39}$erg s$^{-1}$, indicating that there is a physical connection between star formation and AGN activities in these dwarf galaxies.
Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb81c
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05227
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2009.05227
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/abb81c