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Milky Way -卫星系统对准有多普遍?

How common is the Milky Way - satellite system alignment?

Noam I Libeskind, Carlos S Frenk, Shaun Cole, Adrian Jenkins, John C Helly

摘要:

银河系中卫星星系的高度扁平分布带来了许多谜团。首先,它的极线排列与其他星系中常见的平面排列不同。其次,最近的自行测量显示,至少有3个,可能多达8个银河系卫星的轨道角动量指向(在30度内)沿着其扁平配置的轴,这表明某种形式的相干运动。在本文中,我们使用一个高分辨率的宇宙学模拟调查是否这种模式与结构形成的冷暗物质模型的预期冲突。我们发现,这种看似不太可能的设置经常发生:大约35%的时间,我们发现系统中的3个单独的卫星的角动量指向沿,或接近,卫星分布的短轴。此外,在30%的系统中,我们发现,6个最好的对准卫星的净角动量位于35度的卫星分布的短轴,观察银河系。

英文摘要:

The highly flattened distribution of satellite galaxies in the Milky Way presents a number of puzzles. Firstly, its polar alignment stands out from the planar alignments commonly found in other galaxies. Secondly, recent proper motion measurements reveal that the orbital angular momentum of at least 3, and possibly as many as 8, of the Milky Ways satellites point (within 30 degrees) along the axis of their flattened configuration, suggesting some form of coherent motion. In this paper we use a high resolution cosmological simulation to investigate whether this pattern conflicts with the expectations of the cold dark matter model of structure formation. We find that this seemingly unlikely set up occurs often: approximately 35% of the time we find systems in which the angular momentum of 3 individual satellites point along, or close to, the short axis of the satellite distribution. In addition, in 30% of the systems we find that the net angular momentum of the 6 best aligned satellites lies within 35 degrees of the short axis of the satellite distribution, as observed for the Milky Way.

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