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干合并在最亮星系团形成和演化中的作用

The role of dry mergers for the formation and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies

Mateusz Ruszkowski, Volker Springel

摘要:

利用再模拟技术,我们进行高分辨率的宇宙学模拟干合并在一个巨大的星系团中确定的千年运行。我们的初始条件包括很好地解决了复合星系模型组成的暗物质晕和恒星凸起,用于取代最大规模的集群祖晕在红移z=3。通过构造,我们的星系模型最初服从恒星质量-尺寸关系。我们证明,最亮的星系团(BCG)的演变远离科尔门迪关系所定义的较小质量的星系(即,关系弯曲)。由于BCG经历了相对大量的合并,它的总质光比明显高于典型的椭圆星系。我们还表明,暗物质和恒星之间的混合过程导致一个小的,但数值上强大的倾斜在基本平面和BCG位于倾斜的平面上。我们的模型是一致的,观察到的陡峭的对数质量光梯度作为恒星质量的函数。令人惊讶的是,我们发现只有试探性的弱失真的Faber-Jackson关系,取决于孔径的大小,不像预期的基础上孤立的合并模拟研究。这可能是由于星系轨道分布的差异,这是在我们的方法直接由宇宙学背景下,而它必须假设在孤立的合并模拟,以及BCG位于集群势阱深处的事实。

英文摘要:

Using a resimulation technique, we perform high-resolution cosmological simulations of dry mergers in a massive galaxy cluster identified in the Millennium Run. Our initial conditions include well resolved compound galaxy models consisting of dark matter halos and stellar bulges that are used to replace the most massive cluster progenitor halos at redshift z=3. By construction, our galaxy models obey the stellar mass-size relation initially. We demonstrate that the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) evolves away from the Kormendy relation as defined by the smaller mass galaxies (i.e., the relation bends). As a result of the comparatively large number of mergers the BCG experiences, its total mass-to-light ratio becomes significantly higher than in typical elliptical galaxies. We also show that the mixing processes between dark matter and stars lead to a small but numerically robust tilt in the fundamental plane and that the BCG lies on the tilted plane. Our model is consistent with the observed steepening of the logarithmic mass-to-light gradient as a function of the stellar mass. Surprisingly, we find only tentative weak distortion in the Faber-Jackson relation that depends on the aperture size, unlike expected based on studies of isolated merger simulations. This may be due to differences in the distribution of galaxy orbits, which is given in our approach directly by the cosmological context while it has to be assumed in isolated merger simulations, and the fact that the BCG is located deep in the cluster potential well.

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