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两相星系形成:正常星系的气体含量

Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies

M. Cook, C. Evoli, E. Barausse, G. L. Granato, A. Lapi

摘要:

我们结合观测研究,将星系恒星和气体收支与其宿主暗物质(DM)性质联系起来,并结合物理基础的星系形成模型,研究了正常星系的原子(HI)和分子(H_2)氢含量。这使我们能够分析维里,恒星和星系的气体质量之间的经验关系,并探索它们的物理起源。利用一个半解析模型(SAM)的重子物质的演化研究不断发展的DM晕内,我们研究重子的影响,各种恒星的形成和反馈机制上的属性形成的星系使用最新的物理配方。我们发现,为了显著提高与低质量星系观测的一致性,我们必须抑制重子物质的注入,并利用两相星际介质(ISM),其中HI与H_2的比例由星系盘结构决定。修正Schmidt-Kennicutt标准恒星形成定律,该定律作用于星系盘中的总冷气,并包括一个临界密度阈值,采用与H_2气体质量相关的恒星形成定律,导致较低的总恒星形成率。这反过来又使我们能够同时再现正常星系的恒星,HI和H_2质量函数。

英文摘要:

We investigate the atomic (HI) and molecular (H_2) Hydrogen content of normal galaxies by combining observational studies linking galaxy stellar and gas budgets to their host dark matter (DM) properties, with a physically grounded galaxy formation model. This enables us to analyse empirical relationships between the virial, stellar, and gaseous masses of galaxies and explore their physical origins. Utilising a semi-analytic model (SAM) to study the evolution of baryonic material within evolving DM halos, we study the effects of baryonic infall and various star formation and feedback mechanisms on the properties of formed galaxies using the most up-to-date physical recipes. We find that in order to significantly improve agreement with observations of low-mass galaxies we must suppress the infall of baryonic material and exploit a two-phase interstellar medium (ISM), where the ratio of HI to H_2 is determined by the galactic disk structure. Modifying the standard Schmidt-Kennicutt star formation law, which acts upon the total cold gas in galaxy discs and includes a critical density threshold, and employing a star formation law which correlates with the H_2 gas mass results in a lower overall star formation rate. This in turn, allows us to simultaneously reproduce stellar, HI and H_2 mass functions of normal galaxies.

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