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超新星反馈对银河系形成的影响

Effects of Supernova Feedback on the Formation of Galaxy Disks

Cecilia Scannapieco, Patricia B. Tissera, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel

摘要:

我们利用宇宙学模拟研究了超新星反馈对维里质量约为10^12 M_sun/h的银河系型星系形成的影响。我们分析了一组模拟运行的代码所描述的Scannapieco等。(2005年,2006年),在那里我们已经测试了我们的恒星形成和反馈处方使用孤立的星系模型。在这里,我们通过模拟星系在其适当的宇宙学框架中的形成来扩展这项工作,重点是该模型在旋转支持下形成盘状结构的能力。我们发现SN反馈在模拟星系的演化中起着重要的作用,有效地调节恒星形成活动,加压气体和产生质量加载的星系风。这些过程会影响几个星系的性质,如最终恒星质量,形态,角动量,化学性质,最终气体和重子分数。特别是,我们发现,我们的模型是能够再现扩展磁盘组件具有高比角动量和一个显着的部分年轻恒星。星系也被发现有重要的球状体,几乎完全由早期形成的恒星组成。我们发现,大多数的输入参数的组合产生盘状组件,虽然具有不同的大小和厚度,表明代码可以形成磁盘,而无需微调实现的物理。我们还展示了我们的模型如何扩展到更小的系统。通过分析维里质量为10^9 M_sun/h和10^10 M_sun/h的模拟,我们发现星系越小,SN反馈效应越强。

英文摘要:

We use cosmological simulations in order to study the effects of supernova (SN) feedback on the formation of a Milky Way-type galaxy of virial mass ~10^12 M_sun/h. We analyse a set of simulations run with the code described by Scannapieco et al. (2005, 2006), where we have tested our star formation and feedback prescription using isolated galaxy models. Here we extend this work by simulating the formation of a galaxy in its proper cosmological framework, focusing on the ability of the model to form a disk-like structure in rotational support. We find that SN feedback plays a fundamental role in the evolution of the simulated galaxy, efficiently regulating the star formation activity, pressurizing the gas and generating mass-loaded galactic winds. These processes affect several galactic properties such as final stellar mass, morphology, angular momentum, chemical properties, and final gas and baryon fractions. In particular, we find that our model is able to reproduce extended disk components with high specific angular momentum and a significant fraction of young stars. The galaxies are also found to have significant spheroids composed almost entirely of stars formed at early times. We find that most combinations of the input parameters yield disk-like components, although with different sizes and thicknesses, indicating that the code can form disks without fine-tuning the implemented physics. We also show how our model scales to smaller systems. By analysing simulations of virial masses 10^9 M_sun/h and 10^10 M_sun/h, we find that the smaller the galaxy, the stronger the SN feedback effects.

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