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非均匀再电离对Milky Way卫星星系星族的影响

The Impact of Inhomogeneous Reionization on the Satellite Galaxy Population of the Milky Way

Michael T. Busha, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Risa H. Wechsler, Tom Abel, Louis E. Strigari

摘要:

我们使用公开可用的subhalo目录通过Lactea模拟与Gpc尺度的N体模拟一起,以了解非均匀再电离对银河系卫星星系群的影响。大体积的模拟相结合的再电离模型,使我们能够预测银河系质量晕的再电离时间的分布。受此分布的启发,我们确定候选卫星星系在模拟中,要求任何subhalo必须增长到指定的质量阈值以上,才能再电离;在此之后,光电离背景将抑制恒星的形成和气体的吸积。我们发现,在银河系质量晕预期的范围内改变再电离时间可以改变卫星星系的数量大约两个数量级。这一结论与文献中的一些研究相矛盾,我们得出结论,这是Gnedin(2000)结果应用不一致的结果。我们比较我们的卫星星系的观测使用丰度匹配和恒星星族合成方法来分配我们的subhalos的光度和帐户的观测完整性的影响。此外,如果我们假设质量阈值由维里温度Tvir = 8 e3 K设定,我们发现我们的模型精确地匹配了观测到的银河系卫星的vmax分布,径向分布和光度函数,再电离时间zreion = 9.6^{1.0}_{-2.1},假设Via Lacteasubhalo分布代表银河系。这导致了119^{+202}_{-50}个卫星星系的存在。

英文摘要:

We use the publicly available subhalo catalogs from the Via Lactea simulation along with a Gpc-scale N-body simulation to understand the impact of inhomogeneous reionization on the satellite galaxy population of the Milky Way. The large-volume simulation is combined with a model for reionization that allows us to predict the distribution of reionization times for Milky Way mass halos. Motivated by this distribution, we identify candidate satellite galaxies in the simulation by requiring that any subhalo must grow above a specified mass threshold before it is reionized; after this time the photoionizing background will suppress both the formation of stars and the accretion of gas. We show that varying the reionization time over the range expected for Milky Way mass halos can change the number of satellite galaxies by roughly two orders of magnitude. This conclusion is in contradiction with a number of studies in the literature, and we conclude that this is a result of inconsistent application of the results of Gnedin (2000). We compare our satellite galaxies to observations using both abundance matching and stellar population synthesis methods to assign luminosities to our subhalos and account for observational completeness effects. Additionally, if we assume that the mass threshold is set by the virial temperature Tvir = 8e3K we find that our model accurately matches the vmax distribution, radial distribution, and luminosity function of observed Milky Way satellites for a reionization time zreion = 9.6^{1.0}_{-2.1}, assuming that the Via Lacteasubhalo distribution is representative of the Milky Way. This results in the presence of 119^{+202}_{-50} satellite galaxies.

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