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近距离星系对丰度与星系合并率之间关系的刻度

A calibration of the relation between the abundance of close galaxy pairs and the rate of galaxy mergers

Manfred G. Kitzbichler, Simon D. M. White

摘要:

基于密偶数的星系合并率估计通常假设大多数观测到的系统将在几百万年内合并(预计对分离<25 kpc/h)。在这里,我们调查这些假设使用虚拟星系目录来自千年模拟,一个非常大的N体模拟的结构形成的和谐LCDM宇宙学。这些星表已经被证明至少与观测到的星系群在低和高红移下的广泛性质大致一致。在这里,我们表明,他们也预测密切对丰度在低红移同意与观察。因此,它们在标准结构形成范式中嵌入了一个现实的和现实的演变中的星系人口,因此非常适合校准紧密星系对和合并之间的关系。我们表明,观测方法,当应用到我们的模拟星系调查,确实确定对物理上接近,由于合并。样本平均的合并时间仅弱依赖于恒星质量和红移的对。在z<2时,时间尺度为T ~ T0 r25 M*^-0.3,其中r25是双星样本的最大投影间距,单位为25 kpc/h,M* 是双星的典型恒星质量,单位为3 × 10^10 Msol/h,对于选择的视线速度差小于300 km/s的样本,系数T0为1.1 Gyr。s和1.6 Gyr的样本,其中该速度差有效地不受约束。这些时间尺度随着红移而略微增加,并且比大多数观测研究中假设的要长,这意味着合并率通常被高估了。

英文摘要:

Estimates of galaxy merger rates based on counts of close pairs typically assume that most of the observed systems will merge within a few hundred Myr (for projected pair separations <25 kpc/h). Here we investigate these assumptions using virtual galaxy catalogues derived from the Millennium Simulation, a very large N-body simulation of structure formation in the concordance LCDM cosmology. These catalogues have been shown to be at least roughly consistent with a wide range of properties of the observed galaxy population at both low and high redshift. Here we show that they also predict close pair abundances at low redshift which agree with those observed. They thus embed a realistic and realistically evolving galaxy population within the standard structure formation paradigm, and so are well-suited to calibrate the relation between close galaxy pairs and mergers. We show that observational methods, when applied to our mock galaxy surveys, do indeed identify pairs which are physically close and due to merge. The sample-averaged merging time depends only weakly on the stellar mass and redshift of the pair. At z<2 this time-scale is T ~ T0 r25 M*^-0.3, where r25 is the maximum projected separation of the pair sample in units of 25 kpc/h, M* is the typical stellar mass of the pairs in units of 3x10^10 Msol/h, and the coefficient T0 is 1.1 Gyr for samples selected to have line-of-sight velocity difference smaller than 300 km/s and 1.6 Gyr for samples where this velocity difference is effectively unconstrained. These timescales increase slightly with redshift and are longer than assumed in most observational studies, implying that merger rates have typically been overestimated.

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