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题目：Blood-Soaked Eyes：NASA’s Webb,Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

摘要：The galaxies NGC 2207and IC2163 appear eerie in images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope, showing distorted, vein-like arms and glowing shock fronts. They have only recently grazed each other, causing tidal distortions and enhancing star formation. Both galaxies are forming stars at a rapid rate, producing dozens of new Sun-like stars annually. Over millions of years, their repeated interactions may eventually merge their cores, slowing star formation. JWST and Hubble, working together, provide invaluable insights into the evolution of galaxies and the mysteries of the universe.

报告人：杨颖（紫台研究生） 

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题目：The Most Massive Early-type Galaxies Exhibit Tidal Features More Frequently in Lower-density Environments

摘要：The most massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to form through numerous galaxy mergers. Thus, it is intriguing to study whether their formation in low-density environments, where nearby companions are almost absent, is associated with mergers, which are directly traced by tidal features. Using the 436 most massive ETGs with M_{star} > 10^{11.2} M_{⊙} at z < 0.04, we determine the variation in the fraction of massive ETGs with tidal features ( f_T) across different environments and verify whether the most massive ETGs commonly have tidal features in very low density environments. Our main discovery is that the most massive ETGs exhibit tidal features more frequently in lower-density environments. In the highest-density environments, like galaxy clusters, f_T is 0.21 ± 0.06, while in the lowest-density environments it triples to 0.62 ± 0.06. This trend is stronger for more extremely massive ETGs, with f_T reaching 0.92 ± 0.08 in the lowest-density environments. One explanation for our finding is that the most massive ETGs in lower-density environments have genuinely experienced recent mergers more frequently than their counterparts in higher-density environments, suggesting that they possess extended formation histories that continue into the present. Another possibility is that tidal features last shorter in denser environments owing to external factors inherent in these environments. Our additional findings that massive ETGs with bluer u − r colors are a more dominant driver of our main discovery and that dust lanes are more commonly observed in massive ETGs in low-density environments imply that gas-abundant mergers primarily contribute to the increased rate of recent mergers in low-density environments.

报告人：曹逸波（紫台研究生）

时间：2024年11月19日星期二12:15

地点：紫台3-302

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