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Milky Way卫星星系的一个共同质量标度

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Beth Willman, Matthew G. Walker

摘要:

银河系至少有23个已知的卫星星系,它们的亮度从太阳的1000倍到10亿倍不等。这些星系中有一半是在过去几年的斯隆数字巡天中发现的,它们是已知宇宙中最不明亮的星系之一。对这些星系质量的测定提供了在最小尺度上对星系形成的测试,并探索了主导宇宙质量密度的暗物质的性质。在这里,我们使用了对这些星系中恒星速度的新的测量结果,以表明它们与在其中心300秒差距内具有大约10 ^7 M_ \odot的共同质量是一致的。这一结果表明,银河系卫星中最暗的是已知的最暗物质主导的星系,可能是星系形成的新尺度或暗物质聚集的特征尺度的暗示。

英文摘要:

The Milky Way has at least twenty-three known satellite galaxies that shine with luminosities ranging from about a thousand to a billion times that of the Sun. Half of these galaxies were discovered in the past few years in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and they are among the least luminous galaxies in the known Universe. A determination of the mass of these galaxies provides a test of galaxy formation at the smallest scales and probes the nature of the dark matter that dominates the mass density of the Universe. Here we use new measurements of the velocities of the stars in these galaxies to show that they are consistent with them having a common mass of about 10^7 M_\odot within their central 300 parsecs. This result demonstrates that the faintest of the Milky Way satellites are the most dark matter-dominated galaxies known, and could be a hint of a new scale in galaxy formation or a characteristic scale for the clustering of dark matter.

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