Bibcode
Williams, Benjamin F.; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Seth, Anil C.; Weisz, Daniel; Dolphin, Andrew; Skillman, Evan; Harris, Jason; Holtzman, Jon; Girardi, Léo; de Jong, Roelof S.; Olsen, Knut; Cole, Andrew; Gallart, Carme; Gogarten, Stephanie M.; Hidalgo, Sebastian L.; Mateo, Mario; Rosema, Keith; Stetson, Peter B.; Quinn, Thomas
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 137, Issue 1, pp. 419-430 (2009).
Fecha de publicación:
1
2009
Número de citas
62
Número de citas referidas
59
Descripción
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury is a
large Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS treasury program to obtain
resolved stellar photometry for a volume-limited sample of galaxies out
to 4 Mpc. As part of this program, we have obtained deep ACS imaging of
a field in the outer disk of the large spiral galaxy M81. The field
contains the outskirts of a spiral arm as well as an area containing no
current star formation. Our imaging results in a color-magnitude diagram
(CMD) reaching to m F814W = 28.8 and m F606W =
29.5, one magnitude fainter than the red clump. Through detailed
modeling of the full CMD, we quantify the age and metallicity
distribution of the stellar populations contained in the field. The mean
metallicity in the field is -1 < [M/H] < 0 and only a small
fraction of stars have ages lsim 1 Gyr. The results show that most of
the stars in this outer disk field were formed by z ~ 1 and that the arm
structure at this radius has a lifetime of gsim 100 Myr. We discuss the
measured evolution of the M81 disk in the context of surveys of high
redshift disk galaxies and deep stellar photometry of other nearby
galaxies. All of these indicate that massive spiral disks are mostly
formed by z ~ 1 and that they have experienced rapid metal enrichment.
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