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dSph星系质量估计的偏差

Biases in mass estimates of dSph galaxies

Ewa L. Lokas, Stelios Kazantzidis, Jaroslaw Klimentowski, Lucio Mayer

摘要:

使用高分辨率的N体模拟的两个组成部分的矮星系轨道的潜在的银河系,我们研究了两个影响,导致显着的偏差,在质量估计矮球状星系。两者都是由于最初的盘状矮星与它们的宿主之间强烈的潮汐相互作用。矮星的潮汐剥离导致了强烈的潮汐尾的形成,这些尾巴通常与位于主中心附近的观察者的视线对齐。来自尾部的恒星污染了运动学样本,导致速度色散剖面随投影半径增加,导致质量高估。矮星的潮汐搅动导致初始恒星盘的形态转变为棒状,然后是球状体。在很长一段时间内,矮星中的恒星分布保持非球形,这导致如果沿着长轴观察,则会高估其质量,而如果沿着垂直方向观察,则会低估其质量。

英文摘要:

Using a high resolution N-body simulation of a two-component dwarf galaxy orbiting in the potential of the Milky Way, we study two effects that lead to significant biases in mass estimates of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Both are due to the strong tidal interaction of initially disky dwarfs with their host. The tidal stripping of dwarf stars leads to the formation of strong tidal tails that are typically aligned with the line of sight of an observer positioned close to the host center. The stars from the tails contaminate the kinematic samples leading to a velocity dispersion profile increasing with the projected radius and resulting in an overestimate of mass. The tidal stirring of the dwarf leads to the morphological transformation of the initial stellar disk into a bar and then a spheroid. The distribution of stars in the dwarf remains non-spherical for a long time leading to an overestimate of its mass if it is observed along the major axis and an underestimate if it seen in the perpendicular direction.

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