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LCDM宇宙中麦哲伦云的动力学

Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a LCDM Universe

Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Gurtina Besla, Lars Hernquist

摘要:

我们研究银河系麦哲伦云系统选择千禧年-II模拟,以放置在宇宙学背景下的麦哲伦云的轨道。我们的分析表明,卫星质量足够大的LMC类似物通常是在后期吸积。此外,那些在早期吸积并存活到现在的轨道特性与大麦哲伦星系观测到的轨道特性不一致。大麦哲伦星系的高速度,加上模拟中看到的未束缚轨道的缺乏,表明MW的晕的质量不太可能小于2 x 10^12 Msun。这一结论进一步支持统计的晕托管卫星的质量,速度和分离的LMC。我们进一步表明:(1)在MW质量晕中,LMC和SMC质量的天体并不特别罕见;(2)LMC明显的高角动量在宇宙学上并不罕见;(3)在z=0时,MW晕中很少有LMC-SMC双星系统,但在较晚的时候,高速双星对是可能的。基于这些结果,我们得出结论,LMC吸积在过去的四个Gyr,目前正在进行其第一次pericentric通过MW。

英文摘要:

We examine Milky Way-Magellanic Cloud systems selected from the Millennium-II Simulation in order to place the orbits of the Magellanic Clouds in a cosmological context. Our analysis shows that satellites massive enough to be LMC analogs are typically accreted at late times. Moreover, those that are accreted at early times and survive to the present have orbital properties that are discrepant with those observed for the LMC. The high velocity of the LMC, coupled with the dearth of unbound orbits seen in the simulation, argues that the mass of the MW's halo is unlikely to be less than 2 x 10^12 Msun. This conclusion is further supported by statistics of halos hosting satellites with masses, velocities, and separations comparable to those of the LMC. We further show that: (1) LMC and SMC-mass objects are not particularly uncommon in MW-mass halos; (2) the apparently high angular momentum of the LMC is not cosmologically unusual; and (3) it is rare for a MW halo to host a LMC-SMC binary system at z=0, but high speed binary pairs accreted at late times are possible. Based on these results, we conclude that the LMC was accreted within the past four Gyr and is currently making its first pericentric passage about the MW.

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