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暗物质尖点和核对旋涡星系周围卫星星系种群的影响

The impact of dark matter cusps and cores on the satellite galaxy population around spiral galaxies

Jorge Penarrubia, Andrew J. Benson, Matthew G. Walker, Gerard Gilmore, Alan McConnachie, Lucio Mayer

摘要:

利用N体模拟研究了发散(即"尖")暗物质(DM)轮廓对矮球状星系(dSphs)潮汐演化的影响。我们的模型假设宇宙学动机的初始条件下,dSphs是DM占主导地位的系统偏心轨道上的主机星系组成的暗晕和重子盘。我们发现,弹性dSphs潮汐剥离是非常敏感的晕cuspiness,而矮星的核心配置文件可以很容易地被破坏的主机盘,那些与尖总是保留一个绑定的残余。对于一个给定的晕轮廓的演化的结构参数驱动的潮汐是完全控制的总质量损失。这些信息是用来构建一个半解析代码,模拟假设不同的晕配置文件和光盘质量的螺旋星系的层次建设。我们发现,潮汐遇到光盘往往会减少卫星的平均质量在所有的银河中心半径。有趣的是,在再电离(z> 6)之前吸积的卫星,这可能是由异常的金属丰度模式挑选出来的,只有当晕是尖的时才能存活。我们发现,从银河系(MW)矮星建立的大小-质量关系强烈支持在大多数这些系统中存在尖点,因为核心模型系统地低估了已知超暗dSphs的质量。我们的模型还表明,一个巨大的M31盘可以解释为什么它的许多dSphs低于大小质量关系来自MW dSphs。我们用我们的模型来限制DM晕中恒星形成被抑制的质量阈值,发现明亮的卫星必须吸积质量在10^8 - 10^9 M_sol以上,才能解释在MW矮星中观察到的尺寸-质量关系。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We use N-body simulations to study the effects that a divergent (i.e. "cuspy") dark matter (DM) profile introduces on the tidal evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). Our models assume cosmologically-motivated initial conditions where dSphs are DM-dominated systems on eccentric orbits about a host galaxy composed of a dark halo and a baryonic disc. We find that the resilience of dSphs to tidal stripping is extremely sensitive to the halo cuspiness; whereas dwarfs with a cored profile can be easily destroyed by the host disc, those with cusps always retain a bound remnant. For a given halo profile the evolution of the structural parameters as driven by tides is controlled solely by the total amount of mass lost. This information is used to construct a semi-analytic code that simulates the hierarchical build-up of spiral galaxies assuming different halo profiles and disc masses. We find that tidal encounters with discs tend to decrease the average mass of satellites at all galactocentric radii. Interestingly, satellites accreted before re-ionization (z>6), which may be singled out by anomalous metallicity patterns, survive only if haloes are cuspy. We show that the size-mass relation established from Milky Way (MW) dwarfs strongly supports the presence of cusps in the majority of these systems, as cored models systematically underestimate the masses of the known Ultra-Faint dSphs. Our models also indicate that a massive M31 disc may explain why many of its dSphs fall below the size-mass relationship derived from MW dSphs. We use our models to constrain the mass threshold below which star formation is suppressed in DM haloes, finding that luminous satellites must be accreted with masses above 10^8--10^9 M_sol in order to explain the size-mass relation observed in MW dwarfs.

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