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星系团中盘状星系的冲压压力剥离。II。银河尾迹

Ram pressure stripping of disc galaxies orbiting in clusters. II. Galactic wakes

E. Roediger, M. Brueggen

摘要:

我们提出了三维流体动力学模拟的冲压压力剥离的盘星系在星系团的轨道。在本文中,我们集中在剥离气体的星系的尾巴的性质。星系尾流显示出一个张开的宽度,张开的角度取决于气体盘相对于星系运动方向的横截面。尾流中的速度显示出100 km/s的显著湍流分量。被剥离的天然气相当局部地沉积在星团中,即距离其被剥离的地方约150 kpc。我们表明,最重要的量控制的尾巴密度,长度和气体质量分布沿轨道是星系的质量损失每轨道长度。这反过来又取决于冲压压力以及星系的轨道速度。对于约10^19 cm^-2的投影气体密度灵敏度极限,我们发现典型的尾长为40 kpc。这样的长尾巴甚至在离星团中心很远的地方(0.5到1 Mpc)也能看到。在这个灵敏度极限下,尾翼几乎没有张开,但宽度与气盘的大小相似。在形态学上,我们发现与Chung et al.(2007)在室女星系团中观察到的HI尾非常一致。然而,观察到的尾巴显示出比模拟预测的小得多的速度宽度。少数已知的X射线和H $α$尾巴通常比我们模拟的尾巴窄得多,也直得多。因此,可能需要额外的物理学,如粘性ICM,冷却和潮汐效应的影响,以解释观测的细节。我们讨论的流体动力阻力作为一个热源的ICM,但得出的结论是,它是不太可能发挥重要作用,特别是在停止冷却流。

英文摘要:

We present 3D hydrodynamical simulations of ram pressure stripping of a disc galaxy orbiting in a galaxy cluster. In this paper, we focus on the properties of the galaxies' tails of stripped gas. The galactic wakes show a flaring width, where the flaring angle depends on the gas disc's cross-section with respect to the galaxy's direction of motion. The velocity in the wakes shows a significant turbulent component of a few 100 km/s. The stripped gas is deposited in the cluster rather locally, i.e. within ~150 kpc from where it was stripped. We demonstrate that the most important quantity governing the tail density, length and gas mass distribution along the orbit is the galaxy's mass loss per orbital length. This in turn depends on the ram pressure as well as the galaxy's orbital velocity. For a sensitivity limit of ~10^19 cm^-2 in projected gas density, we find typical tail lengths of 40 kpc. Such long tails are seen even at large distances (0.5 to 1 Mpc) from the cluster centre. At this sensitivity limit, the tails show little flaring, but a width similar to the gas disc's size. Morphologically, we find good agreement with the HI tails observed in the Virgo cluster by Chung et al. (2007). However, the observed tails show a much smaller velocity width than predicted from the simulation. The few known X-ray and H$α$ tails are generally much narrower and much straighter than the tails in our simulations. Thus, additional physics like a viscous ICM, the influence of cooling and tidal effects may be needed to explain the details of the observations. We discuss the hydrodynamical drag as a heat source for the ICM but conclude that it is not likely to play an important role, especially not in stopping cooling flows.

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