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超微弱的矮星系只是尖端吗?

Are the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Just Cusps?

Adi Zolotov, David W. Hogg, Beth Willman

摘要:

我们开发了一种技术来调查的可能性,最近发现的一些超暗矮卫星的银河系可能是尖焦散,而不是重力自约束系统。当恒星流折叠时,会形成这样的尖点,从而产生一个区域,在这个区域中,投影的二维表面密度会增强。在这项工作中,我们构造了一个泊松极大似然检验比较尖点和指数模型的任何子结构在平等的基础上。我们把这个检验应用到武仙座矮星(d ~ 113 kpc,M_V ~-6.2,e ~ 0.67)。在赫拉克勒斯的例子中,平坦指数模型比尖点模型更受青睐,在高置信度下排除了赫拉克勒斯是尖点灾难。这个测试可以应用于任何一个银河系矮星,更一般地说,可以应用于整个恒星晕群,以寻找可能在吸积恒星晕中预期的尖点灾难。

英文摘要:

We develop a technique to investigate the possibility that some of the recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf satellites of the Milky Way might be cusp caustics rather than gravitationally self-bound systems. Such cusps can form when a stream of stars folds, creating a region where the projected 2-D surface density is enhanced. In this work, we construct a Poisson maximum likelihood test to compare the cusp and exponential models of any substructure on an equal footing. We apply the test to the Hercules dwarf (d ~ 113 kpc, M_V ~ -6.2, e ~ 0.67). The flattened exponential model is strongly favored over the cusp model in the case of Hercules, ruling out at high confidence that Hercules is a cusp catastrophe. This test can be applied to any of the Milky Way dwarfs, and more generally to the entire stellar halo population, to search for the cusp catastrophes that might be expected in an accreted stellar halo.

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