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暗条中SDSS星系自旋排列的化石证据

Fossil evidence for spin alignment of SDSS galaxies in filaments

Bernard J. T. Jones, Rien van de Weygaert, Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

摘要:

我们寻找并找到化石证据,证明宇宙网细丝中星系的自旋轴相对于其宿主细丝的分布不是随机分布的。这表明大尺度潮汐力矩的作用影响了位于宇宙细丝中的星系的排列。为此,我们构建了一个包含边缘星系的干净细丝目录。我们开始应用多尺度形态滤波器(MMF)技术的星系在红移失真校正版本的斯隆数字巡天DR 5。从这个样本中,我们提取了426个包含边缘星系的细丝(b/a < 0.2)。然后相对于各种质量标准对这些长丝进行视觉分类。使用“特征测量”的统计分析表明,这些边缘星系相对于其母星系的方向分布与基于方向随机分布所预期的方向明显偏离。对这个结果的解释可能不是立即显而易见的,但是很容易识别出14个天体的总体,它们的自旋轴垂直于母暗条的脊柱(\cos θ< 0.2)。候选对象被发现在相对较不密集的细丝。这可能是预期的,因为在这样的位置的星系遭受较少的相互作用与周围的星系,因此更好地保持其潮汐诱导的取向相对于母丝。寻找化石证据的对齐技术产生相对较少的候选对象,但它不会受到稀释效应固有的相关分析大样本。

英文摘要:

We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal torques effected the alignments of galaxies located in cosmic filaments. To this end, we constructed a catalogue of clean filaments containing edge-on galaxies. We started by applying the Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF) technique to the galaxies in a redshift-distortion corrected version of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR5. From that sample we extracted those 426 filaments that contained edge-on galaxies (b/a < 0.2). These filaments were then visually classified relative to a variety of quality criteria. Statistical analysis using "feature measures" indicates that the distribution of orientations of these edge-on galaxies relative to their parent filament deviate significantly from what would be expected on the basis of a random distribution of orientations. The interpretation of this result may not be immediately apparent, but it is easy to identify a population of 14 objects whose spin axes are aligned perpendicular to the spine of the parent filament (\cos θ< 0.2). The candidate objects are found in relatively less dense filaments. This might be expected since galaxies in such locations suffer less interaction with surrounding galaxies, and consequently better preserve their tidally induced orientations relative to the parent filament. The technique of searching for fossil evidence of alignment yields relatively few candidate objects, but it does not suffer from the dilution effects inherent in correlation analysis of large samples.

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