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利用球状星团系统估算暗物质晕质量的新方法

A New Method for Estimating Dark Matter Halo Masses using Globular Cluster Systems

Lee R. Spitler, Duncan A. Forbes

摘要:

所有的星系都被认为存在于巨大的暗物质晕中,暗物质的性质只能通过间接观测来确定。星系的形成和聚集取决于这些暗物质晕和它们所承载的重子物质之间的相互作用。虽然统计关系可以用来估计星系晕的质量,但很少有个别星系直接测量它们的晕质量。我们提出了一种方法来直接估计总质量的星系的暗晕使用其系统的球状星团。球状星团系统和晕质量之间的联系与星系的类型和环境无关,这与星系晕和恒星质量之间的关系相反。这种趋势在模型中是可以预期的,其中球状星团形成于早期,在冷暗物质密度场中的罕见密度峰值,并且再电离的时代在整个宇宙中大致相同。我们通过证明星系的超大质量黑洞质量和全球X射线光度与其宿主暗晕质量成正比来说明这种关系的一般效用,正如我们的新方法所推断的那样。

英文摘要:

All galaxies are thought to reside within large halos of dark matter, whose properties can only be determined from indirect observations. The formation and assembly of galaxies is determined from the interplay between these dark matter halos and the baryonic matter they host. Although statistical relations can be used to approximate how massive a galaxy's halo is, very few individual galaxies have direct measurements of their halo masses. We present a method to directly estimate the total mass of a galaxy's dark halo using its system of globular clusters. The link between globular cluster systems and halo masses is independent of a galaxy's type and environment, in contrast to the relationship between galaxy halo and stellar masses. This trend is expected in models where globular clusters form in early, rare density peaks in the cold dark matter density field and the epoch of reionisation was roughly coeval throughout the Universe. We illustrate the general utility of this relation by demonstrating that a galaxy's supermassive black hole mass and global X-ray luminosity are directly proportional to their host dark halo masses, as inferred from our new method.

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