arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0905.3554astro-ph.CO
收藏

z=2时扩展圆盘星系的起源

The Origin of Extended Disk Galaxies at z=2

Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro, Joop Schaye, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Volker Springel, Marcel R. Haas, Amina Helmi

摘要:

星系形成模型通常假设星系盘的大小和旋转速度在很大程度上取决于周围暗物质晕的质量、浓度和旋转。然而,同样重要的是,在光环中聚集到中央星系的重子的比例,以及它们在组装过程中能够保留的净角动量。我们探索后者使用一组四个大的宇宙学N体/气体动力学模拟从OWLS(OverWhelmomently Large Simulations)项目。这些运行的不同之处仅在于它们对超新星反馈的实现。我们发现,当表示为维里值的分数时,星系质量和净角动量是紧密相关的。星系质量分数m_d=M_gal/M_vir强烈地依赖于反馈,但在本文探索的晕质量范围内(M_vir> 1 e11 h^{-1}M_sun),对晕质量或自旋的依赖性很弱。星系的角动量j_d=J_gal/J_vir与m_d的相关性对反馈不敏感,并且严重偏离了星系形成的半解析模型中经常采用的简单j_d = m_d假设。m_d-j_d关联表明,在给定的晕中,当中心星系占维里半径内重子的相当大的比例(~20%-30%)时,星系盘的尺寸最大。在z=2时,这样的系统可能拥有径向尺度长度与太阳系巡天报告的恒星形成盘一样大的气体盘,即使是中等质量的平均自旋晕。因此,z=2的扩展盘可能表明存在星系形成特别有效的系统,而不是存在具有异常高自旋参数的晕。

英文摘要:

Galaxy formation models typically assume that the size and rotation speed of galaxy disks are largely dictated by the mass, concentration, and spin of their surrounding dark matter haloes. Equally important, however, are the fraction of baryons in the halo that collect into the central galaxy, as well as the net angular momentum that they are able to retain during its assembly process. We explore the latter using a set of four large cosmological N-body/gasdynamical simulations drawn from the OWLS (OverWhelmingly Large Simulations) project. These runs differ only in their implementation of feedback from supernovae. We find that, when expressed as fractions of their virial values, galaxy mass and net angular momentum are tightly correlated. Galaxy mass fractions, m_d=M_gal/M_vir, depend strongly on feedback, but only weakly on halo mass or spin over the halo mass range explored here (M_vir>1e11 h^{-1}M_sun). The angular momentum of a galaxy, j_d=J_gal/J_vir, correlates with m_d in a manner that is insensitive to feedback and that deviates strongly from the simple j_d = m_d assumption often adopted in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. The m_d-j_d correlation implies that, in a given halo, galaxy disk size is maximal when the central galaxy makes up a substantial fraction (~20%-30%) of all baryons within the virial radius. At z=2, such systems may host gaseous disks with radial scale lengths as large as those reported for star-forming disks by the SINS survey, even in moderately massive haloes of average spin. Extended disks at z=2 may thus signal the presence of systems where galaxy formation has been particularly efficient, rather than the existence of haloes with unusually high spin parameter.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑