RT Journal Article
T1 The universal initial mass function in the extended ultraviolet disk of M83
A1 Koda, Jin
A1 Yagi, Masafumi
A1 Boissier, Samuel
A1 Gil de Paz, Armando
A1 Imanishi, Masatoshi
A1 Meyer, Jennifer Donovan
A1 Madore, Barry F.
A1 Thilker, David A.
AB We report deep Subaru Hα observations of the extended ultraviolet (XUV) disk of M83. These new observations enable the first complete census of very young stellar clusters over the entire XUV disk. Combining Subaru and Galaxy Evolution Explorer data with a stellar population synthesis model, we find that (1) the standard, but stochastically sampled, initial mass function (IMF) is preferred over the truncated IMF because there are low-mass stellar clusters (10^2-3 M_☉) that host massive O-type stars; (2) the standard Salpeter IMF and a simple aging effect explain the counts of far-UV (FUV)-bright and Hα-bright clusters with masses >10^3 M_☉; and (3) the Hα-to-FUV flux ratio over the XUV disk supports the standard IMF. To reach conclusion (2), we assumed instantaneous cluster formation and a constant cluster formation rate over the XUV disk. The Subaru Prime Focus Camera covers a large area even outside the XUV disk—far beyond the detection limit of the H I gas. This enables us to statistically separate the stellar clusters in the disk from background contamination. The new data, model, and previous spectroscopic studies provide overall consistent results with respect to the internal dust extinction (A V ~ 0.1 mag) and low metallicity (~0.2 Z_☉) using the dust extinction curve of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The minimum cluster mass for avoiding the upper IMF incompleteness due to stochastic sampling and the spectral energy distributions of O, B, and A stars are discussed in the Appendices.
PB American Astronomical Society
SN 0004-637X
YR 2012
FD 2012-04-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44855
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44855
LA eng
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NO © 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We thank Sadanori Okamura and Tomoki Hayashino for providing the redshifted H-α filter for Suprime-Cam. J.K. thanks Peter Capak for his help with the IMCAT software and Deane Peterson and Fred Walter for discussion on stellar spectra. A.G.d.P is funded by the "Ramón y Cajal" program of the Spanish MICINN and partly supported by the AYA2009-10368 and Consolider-Ingenio 2010 CSD2006-70 projects. M.I. is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 22012006, 23540273). Data analyses were in part carried out on the common use data analysis computer system at the Astronomical Data Center (ADC) of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. This work is based in part on data collected at Subaru Telescope, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), España
NO National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NO Consolider-Ingenio Program
NO Programa Ramón y Cajal, MICINN
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