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潮汐矮星系和失踪的重子

Tidal Dwarf Galaxies and missing baryons

Frederic Bournaud

摘要:

潮汐矮星系是在大质量螺旋星系的相互作用、碰撞或合并过程中形成的。它们在质量、大小上类似于“正常”的矮星系,并成为围绕其巨大祖先运行的矮卫星。然而,它们保留了一些来自其起源的特征,使它们成为宇宙学研究的有趣目标。特别是,它们应该没有来自球状晕的暗物质。平坦的旋转曲线和高的动力学质量可能表明存在一个看不见的分量,并限制了“失踪重子”的性质,已知存在但无法直接观察到。宇宙中矮星系的数量是另一个宇宙学问题,如果潮汐矮星系经常在高红移时形成,当合并率很高时,它们中的许多幸存下来直到今天,这可能会受到显着影响。

英文摘要:

Tidal dwarf galaxies form during the interaction, collision or merger of massive spiral galaxies. They can resemble "normal" dwarf galaxies in terms of mass, size, and become dwarf satellites orbiting around their massive progenitor. They nevertheless keep some signatures from their origin, making them interesting targets for cosmological studies. In particular, they should be free from dark matter from a spheroidal halo. Flat rotation curves and high dynamical masses may then indicate the presence of an unseen component, and constrain the properties of the "missing baryons", known to exist but not directly observed. The number of dwarf galaxies in the Universe is another cosmological problem that can be significantly impacted if tidal dwarf galaxies formed frequently at high redshift, when the merger rate was high, and many of them survived until today.

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