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AGN反馈对形成红色椭圆星系是必要的吗?

Is AGN feedback necessary to form red elliptical galaxies?

A. Khalatyan, A. Cattaneo, M. Schramm, S. Gottloeber, M. Steinmetz, L. Wisotzki

摘要:

我们用GADGET 2模拟了质量为3 × 10^12 M_Sun/h的宇宙学暗物质晕中椭圆星系的形成。利用恒星星族合成模型,我们可以计算星等、颜色和表面亮度分布。我们已经包括了一个模型,以遵循一个中央黑洞的增长,我们比较了有和没有从活动星系核反馈的模拟结果。我们研究了冷气体吸积和合并在星系形态发展中的相互作用、颜色和形态演化之间的联系、活动星系核反馈对早期星系测光的影响、类星体宿主性质的红移演化以及活动星系核风对星系际介质化学富集的影响。我们发现,星系形成的早期阶段是由冷对流的吸积驱动的,冷对流在暗物质晕的中心形成一个圆盘。当暗物质晕的质量足以支持稳定激波的传播时,冷吸积被关闭,恒星形成率开始下降。合并将盘转变成椭圆星系,但也将气体带入星系。如果没有一种机制从合并残余物中去除气体,星系最终会呈现蓝色,这对于其椭圆形态来说是不典型的。AGN反馈可以解决这个问题,即使在相当低的加热效率。我们还证明了活动星系核风对IGM的金属富集具有潜在的重要性。(节略)

英文摘要:

We have used GADGET2 to simulate the formation of an elliptical galaxy in a cosmological dark matter halo with mass 3x10^12M_Sun/h. Using a stellar population synthesis model has allowed us to compute magnitudes, colours and surface brightness profiles. We have included a model to follow the growth of a central black hole and we have compared the results of simulations with and without feedback from AGNs. We have studied the interplay between cold gas accretion and merging in the development of galactic morphologies, the link between colour and morphology evolution, the effect of AGN feedback on the photometry of early type galaxies, the redshift evolution in the properties of quasar hosts, and the impact of AGN winds on the chemical enrichment of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We have found that the early phases of galaxy formation are driven by the accretion of cold filamentary flows, which form a disc at the centre of the dark matter halo. When the dark matter halo is sufficiently massive to support the propagation of a stable shock, cold accretion is shut down, and the star formation rate begins to decline. Mergers transform the disc into an elliptical galaxy, but also bring gas into the galaxy. Without a mechanism that removes gas from the merger remnants, the galaxy ends up with blue colours, atypical for its elliptical morphology. AGN feedback can solve this problem even with a fairly low heating efficiency. We have also demonstrated that AGN winds are potentially important for the metal enrichment of the IGM a high redshift.(abridged)

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