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千年模拟中的卫星星系和化石群

Satellite Galaxies and Fossil Groups in the Millennium Simulation

L. V. Sales, J. F. Navarro, D. G. Lambas, S. D. M. White, D. J. Croton

摘要:

我们使用一个半解析的星系目录从千禧年模拟研究孤立星系的卫星在LCDM宇宙演化。这个样本(~ 80,000 $明亮的主星系,周围有~ 178,000颗卫星)允许以最小的统计不确定性表征LCDM宇宙中卫星/主星系系统的动力学性质。我们发现,总的来说,卫星人口的痕迹暗物质相当不错:其空间分布和运动学可以近似的NFW配置文件具有轻度各向异性的速度分布。它们的空间分布也是轻度各向异性的,具有明确的“反Holmberg”效应,反映了主晕的主轴和角动量之间的错位。我们的主星系的隔离标准不仅选择了稀疏环境中的星系,而且还选择了位于“化石”群体中心的一些主星系。我们发现,这些不寻常的系统的丰度和光度函数是在合理的协议与几个可用的观测约束。我们恢复了LCDM模型中真实孤立原色的期望L_{host} σ_{sat}^3关系。然而,不太严格的初选导致标度关系的实质性修改。我们的分析还强调了一些困难困扰的研究,依靠盲目堆叠的卫星系统,以限制平均晕质量的主要星系。

英文摘要:

We use a semianalytic galaxy catalogue constructed from the Millennium Simulation to study the satellites of isolated galaxies in the LCDM cosmogony. This sample (~80,000$ bright primaries, surrounded by ~178,000 satellites) allows the characterization, with minimal statistical uncertainty, of the dynamical properties of satellite/primary galaxy systems in a LCDM universe. We find that, overall, the satellite population traces the dark matter rather well: its spatial distribution and kinematics may be approximated by an NFW profile with a mildly anisotropic velocity distribution. Their spatial distribution is also mildly anisotropic, with a well-defined ``anti-Holmberg'' effect that reflects the misalignment between the major axis and angular momentum of the host halo. The isolation criteria for our primaries picks not only galaxies in sparse environments, but also a number of primaries at the centre of ''fossil'' groups. We find that the abundance and luminosity function of these unusual systems are in reasonable agreement with the few available observational constraints. We recover the expected L_{host} σ_{sat}^3 relation for LCDM models for truly-isolated primaries. Less strict primary selection, however, leads to substantial modification of the scaling relation. Our analysis also highlights a number of difficulties afflicting studies that rely on blind stacking of satellite systems to constrain the mean halo mass of the primary galaxies.

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