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X射线和UV Background Radiation对星系质量函数低质量斜率的影响

The Effects of X-Ray and UV Background Radiation on the Low-Mass Slope of the Galaxy Mass Function

D. C. Hambrick, J. P. Ostriker, P. H. Johansson, T. Naab

摘要:

尽管在没有偏置的情况下,暗物质功率谱预测在低质量端(M < 10^10 M_solar)的晕数密度为n(M)~ M^-2(即谢希特α值为-2),但流体动力学模拟通常得出的恒星系统的数值与观测值α ~-1非常一致。我们用一个简单的物理参数来解释这一点,并表明一个有效的外部气体加热机制(如紫外线背景包括在所有的氢代码)将产生一个临界晕质量低于晕不能保留其气体和形成恒星。我们测试这一结论与GADGET-2为基础的模拟使用各种紫外线背景,并为第一次,我们还调查了X射线背景的影响。我们表明,在目前的时期,α主要取决于低质量系统(z <~ 3)的恒星形成时期的平均气体温度:没有背景,我们发现α ~-1.5,只有紫外线α ~-1.0,紫外线和X射线α ~-0.75。我们发现恒星形成的临界最终晕质量在紫外背景下约为4 × 10^8 M_solar,在紫外和X射线背景下约为7 × 10^8 M_solar。

英文摘要:

Even though the dark-matter power spectrum in the absence of biasing predicts a number density of halos n(M) ~ M^-2 (i.e. a Schechter alpha value of -2) at the low-mass end (M < 10^10 M_solar), hydrodynamic simulations have typically produced values for stellar systems in good agreement with the observed value alpha ~ -1. We explain this with a simple physical argument and show that an efficient external gas-heating mechanism (such as the UV background included in all hydro codes) will produce a critical halo mass below which halos cannot retain their gas and form stars. We test this conclusion with GADGET-2-based simulations using various UV backgrounds, and for the first time we also investigate the effect of an X-ray background. We show that at the present epoch alpha is depends primarily on the mean gas temperature at the star-formation epoch for low-mass systems (z <~ 3): with no background we find alpha ~ -1.5, with UV only alpha ~ -1.0, and with UV and X-rays alpha ~ -0.75. We find the critical final halo mass for star formation to be ~4x10^8 M_solar with a UV background and ~7x10^8 M_solar with UV and X-rays.

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