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卫星星系角分布对旋涡星系的约束

Constraints on the angular distribution of satellite galaxies about spiral hosts

Jason H. Steffen, Octavio Valenzuela

摘要:

我们目前,使用一种新的技术,卫星星系的角分布的研究周围的孤立的,蓝色的宿主星系的样本从斯隆数字巡天的第六次数据发布。作为对以前研究的补充,我们将星系样本细分为不同倾角的仓,并使用不同仓之间存在的系统差异作为我们方法的基础。我们参数化的卫星星系的累积分布函数,并应用极大似然,蒙特卡罗技术来确定允许的分布,我们显示为排除图。我们发现,允许的分布的卫星的螺旋主机是非常接近各向同性。我们概述了我们的形式主义和我们的分析,并讨论了如何改进这种技术,为今后的研究和调查。

英文摘要:

We present, using a novel technique, a study of the angular distribution of satellite galaxies around a sample of isolated, blue host galaxies selected from the sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. As a complement to previous studies we subdivide the sample of galaxies into bins of differing inclination and use the systematic differences that would exist between the different bins as the basis for our approach. We parameterize the cumulative distribution function of satellite galaxies and apply a maximum likelihood, Monte-Carlo technique to determine allowable distributions, which we show as an exclusion plot. We find that the allowed distributions of the satellites of spiral hosts are very nearly isotropic. We outline our formalism and our analysis and discuss how this technique may be refined for future studies and future surveys.

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