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局部再电离历史对晕质量和环境的依赖性:室女座是否使Local Group再电离?

Dependence of the Local Reionization History on Halo Mass and Environment: Did Virgo Reionize the Local Group?

Simone M. Weinmann, Andrea V. Maccio', Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema, Ben Moore

摘要:

宇宙的再电离对星系的形成方式和后来观测到的性质有着深远的影响。特别重要的是一个区域的再电离历史和它的晕组装历史的相对时间,它可以影响在该区域形成的第一批恒星的性质,它的恒星晕的性质和径向分布,球状星团人口和它的卫星星系。我们区分两种基本情况下的晕再电离-内部再电离,其中恒星形成原位recruitment他们的宿主星系,和外部再电离,其中星系的祖先是由外部辐射再电离之前,它自己的恒星能够形成足够的数量。我们使用一组大尺度辐射转移和结构形成的模拟,来自WMAP的1年和WMAP的3年数据的宇宙学的基础上,评估的平均再电离红移和内部/外部再电离的可能性的本星系团,星系在外地和中央cD星系团。我们发现,这些概率是强烈依赖于基本的宇宙学和光子生产的效率,但也对晕质量。在质量尺度为1.0e12 Msun(大致对应于L* 星系)的星系中,主要是外部再电离和主要是内部再电离之间存在快速过渡,比这更小质量的晕优先从遥远的来源被再电离。我们给出了再电离红移随晕质量变化的拟合关系,这对宇宙学尺度下星系形成半解析模型中的参数化再电离有一定的帮助。我们没有发现场星系的再电离历史与其环境之间的统计相关性。

英文摘要:

The reionization of the Universe has profound effects on the way galaxies form and on their observed properties at later times. Of particular importance is the relative timing of the reionization history of a region and its halo assembly history, which can affect the nature of the first stars formed in that region, the properties and radial distribution of its stellar halo, globular cluster population and its satellite galaxies. We distinguish two basic cases for the reionization of a halo - internal reionization, whereby the stars forming in situ reionize their host galaxy, and external reionization, whereby the progenitor of a galaxy is reionized by external radiation before its own stars are able to form in sufficient numbers. We use a set of large-scale radiative transfer and structure formation simulations, based on cosmologies derived from both WMAP 1-year and WMAP 3-year data, to evaluate the mean reionization redshifts and the probability of internal/external reionization for Local Group-like systems, galaxies in the field and central cD galaxies in clusters. We find that these probabilities are strongly dependent on the underlying cosmology and the efficiency of photon production, but also on the halo mass. There is a rapid transition between predominantly external and predominantly internal reionization at a mass scale of 1.0e12 Msun (corresponding roughly to L*galaxies), with haloes less massive than this being reionized preferentially from distant sources. We provide a fit for the reionization redshift as a function of halo mass, which could be helpful to parameterize reionization in semi-analytical models of galaxy formation on cosmological scales. We find no statistical correlation between the reionization history of field galaxies and their environment.

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