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将麦哲伦星系群分解为Milky Way晕:理解本星系的性质

Breaking up the Magellanic Group into the Milky Way Halo: Understanding the Local Dwarf Galaxy Properties

Elena D'Onghia

摘要:

我们使用一个松散的组包含银河系晕探测的数值模拟,在分层宇宙中的麦哲伦云和一些dSphs已被吸积到银河系晕从一个晚落组的矮星。我们的模拟表明,麦哲伦星系团的潮汐分裂发生在它进入银河系晕之前。预计该群贡献的卫星中只有一半位于银河系维里半径内。它的一半子晕以卫星的形式存在于当前的维里半径之外,而其余的物质则贡献于弥漫的银河系晕。在z~0时,分裂的星系群对银河系晕质量的贡献不到10%,但银河系中20%最亮的矮星系都是这个星系群的一部分。这种情况下指出,一些dSphs可能已经形成远离巨大的螺旋,并已被吸积为球体,由一个晚落集团在对比的dSphs形成模型的潮汐剥离的经典图片。这自然可以解释本星系团的几个特殊性:为什么天龙座和其他发光的dSph与其他超暗卫星星系相比存在,Tucana和Cetus位于本星系团的外围,以及银河系的恒星晕和矮星系之间的金属丰度不匹配,许多人怀疑它们溶解形成了它。

英文摘要:

We use a numerical simulation of a loose group containing a Milky Way halo to probe that in the hierarchical universe the Magellanic Clouds and some dSphs have been accreted into the Milky Way halo from a late infalling group of dwarfs. Our simulations show that the tidal breakup of the Magellanic group occurs before it enters the Milky Way halo. Only half of the satellites contributed from the group are predicted to be inside the Milky Way virial radius. Half of its subhalos survive outside the current virial radius in the form of satellites, whereas the remaining material contributes to the diffuse Milky Way halo. At z~0 the disrupted group contributes less than 10% to the Milky Way halo mass but 20% of the brightest dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way have been part of this group. This scenario points out that some dSphs might have been form away from giant spirals and been accreted already as spheroids, by a late infall group in contrast with the classical picture of tidal stripping of dSph formation models. This would naturally explain several peculiarities of the local dSph: why Draco and the other luminous dSphs exist compared to other ultra-faint satellite galaxies, the location of Tucana and Cetus in the outskirts of the Local Group and the mismatch in metallicity between the stellar halo of the Milky Way and the dwarf galaxies that many have suspected dissolved to build it.

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