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潮汐碎屑中LCDM子结构的特征

Signatures of LCDM substructure in tidal debris

Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Monica Valluri

摘要:

在过去的十年里,对银河系恒星组成部分的调查揭示了一些来自潮汐破裂的矮星系和球状星团的流。在LCDM宇宙学中对等级结构形成的模拟预测,像银河系这样的星系的暗物质晕包含数百个质量为10^8太阳质量或更大的暗物质晕,并且已经提出相干潮汐流的存在与预期的子结构丰度不相容。通过模拟自引力卫星在不同轨道上的分裂,研究了暗物质子结构对潮汐流的影响.我们发现,晕的形状和特定的轨道路径更强烈地决定了卫星的整体破坏程度比存在或不存在的子结构,即,由于子结构而引起的潮汐碎片大尺度特性的变化与来自平滑势中不同轨道的碎片的变化相比是很小的。子结构通常会导致天空投影中潮汐碎片的结块程度增加,并且在某些情况下会导致视线速度分布更加紧凑。子结构也导致不同的部分的碎片的位置相比,平滑晕模型的结果,这可能有重要的影响所观察到的潮汐流的解释。一个独特的签名的存在下的子结构的光环,这可能是检测到即将到来的调查被确定。然而,我们的结论是,子结构的预测水平是一致的相干潮汐流从矮星系的检测。

英文摘要:

In the past decade, surveys of the stellar component of the Galaxy have revealed a number of streams from tidally disrupted dwarf galaxies and globular clusters. Simulations of hierarchical structure formation in LCDM cosmologies predict that the dark matter halo of a galaxy like the Milky Way contains hundreds of subhalos with masses of ~10^8 solar masses and greater, and it has been suggested that the existence of coherent tidal streams is incompatible with the expected abundance of substructure. We investigate the effects of dark matter substructure on tidal streams by simulating the disruption of a self-gravitating satellite on a wide range of orbits in different host models both with and without substructure. We find that the halo shape and the specific orbital path more strongly determine the overall degree of disruption of the satellite than does the presence or absence of substructure, i.e., the changes in the large-scale properties of the tidal debris due to substructure are small compared to variations in the debris from different orbits in a smooth potential. Substructure typically leads to an increase in the degree of clumpiness of the tidal debris in sky projection, and in some cases a more compact distribution in line-of-sight velocity. Substructure also leads to differences in the location of sections of debris compared to the results of the smooth halo model, which may have important implications for the interpretation of observed tidal streams. A unique signature of the presence of substructure in the halo which may be detectable by upcoming surveys is identified. We conclude, however, that predicted levels of substructure are consistent with a detection of a coherent tidal stream from a dwarf galaxy.

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