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Lambda-CDM宇宙学中哈勃序列的起源

The Origin of the Hubble Sequence in Lambda-CDM Cosmology

Andrew J. Benson, Nick Devereux

摘要:

Galform半解析星系形成模型被用来探索机制主要负责在本地宇宙中看到的三种类型的星系:凸起,凸起+磁盘和磁盘,确定与视觉形态类型E,S 0/a-Sbc,和Sc-Scd,分别。通过选择适当的参数,Galform模型可以精确地再现观测到的按视觉形态分裂的星系的局部K_s带光度函数(LF)。成功的一组模型参数被用来填充千年模拟与940万个星系和它们的暗物质晕。由此产生的目录,然后用来探索星系的演变,通过宇宙历史。该模型的预测与最近的观测结果,包括星系合并率,恒星形成率和椭圆星系的看似反层次的演变。然而,该模型还预测了椭圆星系LF的显着演化,但没有观察到。这种差异提出了一种可能性,即使用颜色和形态标准选择的z~1星系样本可能被实际上不是椭圆星系的星系所污染。

英文摘要:

The Galform semi-analytic model of galaxy formation is used to explore the mechanisms primarily responsible for the three types of galaxies seen in the local universe: bulge, bulge+disk and disk, identified with the visual morphological types E, S0/a-Sbc, and Sc-Scd, respectively. With a suitable choice of parameters the Galform model can accurately reproduce the observed local K_s-band luminosity function (LF) for galaxies split by visual morphological type. The successful set of model parameters is used to populate the Millennium Simulation with 9.4 million galaxies and their dark matter halos. The resulting catalogue is then used to explore the evolution of galaxies through cosmic history. The model predictions concur with recent observational results including the galaxy merger rate, the star formation rate and the seemingly anti-hierarchical evolution of ellipticals. However, the model also predicts significant evolution of the elliptical galaxy LF that is not observed. The discrepancy raises the possibility that samples of z~1 galaxies which have been selected using colour and morphological criteria may be contaminated with galaxies that are not actually ellipticals.

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