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Vučetić, Milica (Beograd , 2017)[more][less]
Abstract: In this dissertation we discuss in uence of H emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) on H derived star formation rates (SFRs). We present the detection of 16 optical SNR candidates in a part of nearby spiral galaxy IC342, and two more poten- tial SNRs in NGC 185 galaxy. The candidates were detected by applying [S ii]/H ratio criterion on observations made with the 2 m telescope at Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory in Bulgaria. Also, in this dissertation we present the most up-to-date list of nearby galaxies with optically detected SNRs. When deri- ving H star formation rates, assumption is that the radiation is coming from the ionized gas surrounding hot and young stars { Hii regions. In this case, emission from SNRs contaminates H ux used to derive SFR. We found that the contribu- tion of SNRs' ux to the total H ux, for 18 galaxies in our sample of galaxies with optical SNRs, is 5 5%. Due to the observational selection effects, the SNR contamination of SFRs derived herein represents only a lower limit. M83 is the galaxy with the most detected optical SNRs and in this galaxy SNRs account for 9 per cent of the total H emission. We expect that fraction similar to this would be close to the real contribution of SNR emission to the total H emission in spiral galaxies. Using two dwarf galaxies as an example, Holmberg IX and NGC 185, we show that the contamination of H ux by SNRs, or other sources, can be much larger, up to ten times higher than total H ux coming from Hii regions of the observed galaxy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4501 Files in this item: 1
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Vučetić, Milica (Beograd , 2017)[more][less]
Abstract: In this dissertation we discuss in uence of H emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) on H derived star formation rates (SFRs). We present the detection of 16 optical SNR candidates in a part of nearby spiral galaxy IC342, and two more poten- tial SNRs in NGC 185 galaxy. The candidates were detected by applying [S ii]/H ratio criterion on observations made with the 2 m telescope at Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory in Bulgaria. Also, in this dissertation we present the most up-to-date list of nearby galaxies with optically detected SNRs. When deri- ving H star formation rates, assumption is that the radiation is coming from the ionized gas surrounding hot and young stars { Hii regions. In this case, emission from SNRs contaminates H ux used to derive SFR. We found that the contribu- tion of SNRs' ux to the total H ux, for 18 galaxies in our sample of galaxies with optical SNRs, is 5 5%. Due to the observational selection effects, the SNR contamination of SFRs derived herein represents only a lower limit. M83 is the galaxy with the most detected optical SNRs and in this galaxy SNRs account for 9 per cent of the total H emission. We expect that fraction similar to this would be close to the real contribution of SNR emission to the total H emission in spiral galaxies. Using two dwarf galaxies as an example, Holmberg IX and NGC 185, we show that the contamination of H ux by SNRs, or other sources, can be much larger, up to ten times higher than total H ux coming from Hii regions of the observed galaxy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4507 Files in this item: 1
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Milogradov-Turin, Jelena (Belgrade)[more][less]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/126 Files in this item: 1
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Ševarlić, Branislav (Belgrade)[more][less]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/141 Files in this item: 1
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Teleki, Đorđe (Belgrade , 1964)[more][less]
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Šegan, Stevo (Belgrade , 1987)[more][less]
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Đurović, Dragutin (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Ninković, Slobodan (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Kuzmanoski, Mike (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Đurašević, Gojko (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Atanacković-Vukmanović, Olga (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Angelov, Trajče (Belgrade , 1980)[more][less]
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Oskanjan, Vasilije (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Radović, Viktor (Beograd , 2017)[more][less]
Abstract: The main goal of this dissertation is improvement of an approach for identi- cation of the members of asteroid families, based on the hierarchical clustering method. An additional step is introduced in order to reduce a so-called chaining e ect. The introduced algorithm consists of four main steps. In the rst step, the hierarchical clustering method is applied to the initial catalogue of proper elements in order to obtain a preliminary list of family members. In the second step, using available physical properties, and based upon the de ned criteria, the interlopers are identi ed. In the third step, objects identi ed as interlopers in the second step, are excluded from the initial catalogue of proper orbital elements, producing a modi ed catalogue. Finally, in the fourth step, the HCM analysis is performed again, but this time using the modi ed catalogue of proper elements. It is shown that in this way a number of potential interlopers among family members is signi cantly reduced. Moreover, an on-line based portal (Asteroids Families Portal; AFP) to apply this procedure is developed, and is freely available to all interested researchers. The second goal of the dissertation is to determine the limitations of the backward integration method, used for estimation of ages of young asteroid families. This aim is achieved through numerical simulations of the evolution of a ctitious family. By determining instants of secular angles i $ clustering, a linear relationship is found between the depth of a clustering and the age of a family. According to the obtained results, the backward integration method could be successfully applied to families not older than 18 Myrs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4504 Files in this item: 1
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Tsirvoulis, Georgios (Beograd , 2019)[more][less]
Abstract: Asteroid families are populations of asteroids in the Main Belt that share a common origin, that is they are the fragments of energetic collisions between two asteroids. Their study over the years has produced a number of important results concerning the collisional and dynamical evolution of the Main Belt, the physical properties of the primordial bodies of the Solar System and the physics of energetic collisions, to name a few. The contribution of the present thesis can be summarized into two main topics: The first is the discovery of a new mechanism that leads to significant perturbations on the orbits of asteroids, and consequently on the evolution of asteroid families affected by it, and the second is the discovery of a couple of new families, each with its own peculiarities. The first part of this thesis was initially motivated by the irregular shape of the (1726) Hoffmeister asteroid family. In an effort to explain this peculiarity we carried out a thorough dynamical analysis of its past evolution and found out that none of the mechanisms known to affect the orbits of asteroids could explain it. Investigating further we discovered that the linear nodal secular resonance with the most massive asteroid (1) Ceres, is the mechanism responsible for the anisotropic inclination distribution of Hoffmeister family members. Having established the importance of the nodal secular resonance with Ceres, we sought to expand on the subject with the study of all linear secular resonances, nodal and periapsidal, involving not only (1) Ceres, but (4) Vesta, the second most massive asteroid, as well. To do so we utilized numerical integrations of test particles across the whole Main Belt, and evaluated the impact of these resonances on their orbits. Furthermore we identified all asteroid families crossed by one or more of these resonances. Two of these cases, the families of (1251) Seinajoki and (1128) Astrid were then studied in more detail, confirming the importance of the previously ignored secular resonances with massive asteroids. The second part details the discovery of two new asteroid families. The first one, that of (326) Tamara family, was motivated by the unexpectedly high number of dark asteroids in the Phocaea region, a part of the inner Main Belt which is expected to consist mostly of bright ones. Using all available physical data we were able to show that most of the dark asteroids therein belong to a single dynamical family, which we then further analyzed finding that it is 264 ± 43 Myrs old and that it could have a significant contribution to the influx of small dark asteroids toward the Near Earth region. The second discovered family, that of (633) Zelima, is a small cluster, sub-family of the large (221) Eos family. After identifying its members, we derived the age of the Zelima family, which turned out to be only about 3.66 Myrs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4752 Files in this item: 1
Tsirvoulis_Georgios.pdf ( 76.51Mb ) -
Urošević, Dejan (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Ćatović, Zlatko (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Mitrašinović, Ana (Beograd , 2022)[more][less]
Abstract: The subject of this dissertation is to study the effects of galaxy flybys on the structural evolution of galaxies. Galaxy flybys are very close interactions that do not result in a merger. With the high frequency in the late Universe, their role in the evolution of galaxies is significant. Earlier studies focused on equal-mass flybys, which are extremely rare. We focus on typical flybys with a lower mass ratio. We aim to explore the structure and evolution of galaxies in greater detail and demonstrate that these flybys are just as important as equal-mass ones. We performed a series of N body simulations of typical flybys with varying impact para- meters. We demonstrated the applicability and importance of isolated N body simulations and developed an efficient method for reliable bar detection in galaxy discs. For the first time, we examined the evolution of the secondary galaxy, focusing on its dark matter mass loss. The results show that the leftover mass follows logarithmic growth law with impact parameter and suggest that flybys contribute to the formation of dark matter-deficient galaxies. The primary galaxy is affected in a similar way as in equal-mass flybys. Bars form in closer flybys, two-armed spirals form during all flybys, and the dark matter halo spins up. Most of the parameters of these structures are correlated or anti-correlated with the impact parameter. We also noticed that a double bar could form as evolving spirals wrap around the early-formed bar. We successfully demonstrated that frequent, typical flybys with lower mass ratios signifi- cantly affect the evolution of galaxies, producing various observed effects. Our results should serve as a warning not to disregard these interactions in future studies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5441 Files in this item: 1
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Knežević, Zoran (Belgrade)[more][less]
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Lalović, Ana (Beograd , 2016)[more][less]
Abstract: The goal of this thesis is to reduce multidimensional space of galactic properties to the smallest number of dimensions su cient to describe them. For this purpose, the statistical analysis is applied over the parameters that describe fundamental galactic properties on the morphologically representative sample of 2180 galaxies. The sample of galaxies used in this thesis is based on the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (Alfalfa) blind HI survey. The importance of an HI blind survey lies in the fact that galaxies are chosen on the basis of their gas content (HI) solely, thus free of optical selection e ects. From the initial sample counting 10000 galaxies, 2180 of them were chosen, since for this subsample the optical spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) was available and moreover the photometry in the UV (Galaxy Evolution Explorer, GALEX), and optical (SDSS) to the near-infrared (Two Micron All Sky Survey, 2MASS). Parameters are selected according to the previously established correlations between fundamental galactic properties, relying on the previous work. They are extensively tested and confronted between each other to be chosen from the larger parametric space. To select parameters, we rst measured stellar kinematics using publicly available code (pPXF), and tested both empirical and synthetic stellar libraries. In particular, we have measured the velocity dispersion and the higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution function. This is the largest galaxy sample created so far with detailed stellar kinematics measured including higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution function. The sample size allows statistical tests to be applied to the higher moment of the velocity distribution function (h4), with respect to the di erent groups of morphological galaxy types. Various tests agree with the previous indication that elliptical and lenticular galaxies have the same origin. Further, we have measured the line strength indices for several absorption lines (Lick indices), since some of them are good proxies to galaxy ages and metallicity, also the fundamental galactic properties. In the nal statistical analysis, metallicity proves to be of no importance, but the inclusion of galaxy ages in the analysis, the results change signi cantly. The last step in the parameter selection is the modelling of the galaxies' surface brightness pro les with the Sersic pro le, that is performed in this thesis with the Gal t code. The velocity dispersion measured, along with the Sersic index and effective radius of the Sersic pro le takes the role in the dynamical mass calculation, being the fundamental galactic property and hence used in the nal statistical analysis. Finally, we have taken the mass of the gas component and maximal rotational velocity from the radio-spectroscopy and Kron magnitudes (i.e. colours) from the ultraviolet/ optical/nearinfrared photometry (GALEX/SDSS/2MASS databases). After extensive testing, we have chosen the colour calculated from ultraviolet and optical magnitudes (NUV r colour), for the nal statistical analysis. It is worth noting that previous analysis of the galactic properties lack velocity dispersion, as well as the colour with the ultraviolet component, although it is a direct proxy to the speci c star formation rate in the galaxy. This particular colour makes correlations among analysed parameters stronger and proves to be more important than optical colours. Finally, when the proper parametric space of galactic properties is formed (velocity dispersion, colour, luminosity, Petrosian radii R50 and R90, dynamical, HI and stellar masses, maximal rotational velocity and the galaxy ages), the correlation analysis is performed to inspect correlations between parameters. This analysis con rms relations that are already known to hold. Then the principal component analysis is done with the purpose of nding and identifying the smallest number of galactic properties responsible for the nal products of galaxy evolution, as we see today, in the local Universe. The results of the corresponding analysis are the following: there are at least three statistically important, independent components. The rst and the most important component cannot be identi ed with either galactic property, but presents the mixture of several properties: dynamical mass, mass of the stellar and gas component, luminosity and Petrosian radii R50 and R90. Relaying on the previous work, this component may be identi ed with the "size" of the galaxies. The second component, mostly in uenced by the galactic colour, may be identi ed with the "aspect" of the galaxies. The colour was not found to be important in previous work. The galaxy ages can be identi ed with the third principal component. There is a hint on the fourth component, dominated by the maximal rotational velocity that can be identi ed with the speci c angular momentum of galaxies. Although not proven to be statistically important, it may become so in the larger sample of galaxies which will provide the information of the true peak of the galaxies' rotational curves, since the single-beam HI spectra may show the single maximum and this may not be the true maximum. Also, the rotational velocity includes the inclination correction, another questionable parameter in the analysis. To conclude: there are at least three, and possibly four dimensions of the multidimensional galactic space, as we see today. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4446 Files in this item: 1
Lalovic_Ana3.pdf ( 11.44Mb )