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ISM turbulence、成团恒星形成和通过冷流和合并对星系质量组装的反馈的影响

The impact of ISM turbulence, clustered star formation and feedback on galaxy mass assembly through cold flows and mergers

Leila C. Powell, Frederic Bournaud, Damien Chapon, Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, Romain Teyssier

摘要:

星系质量聚集的两个主要通道是冷流(通过宇宙网的细丝提供的冷气)和合并。在宇宙学背景下,这些过程如何结合在一起,在低和高红移下,产生我们观察到的整个星系动物园,这在很大程度上是未知的。事实上,关于每一个孤立过程的详细物理原理,还有很多东西需要了解。虽然这些形成通道已经研究了使用流体动力学模拟,在这里,我们研究它们对气体性质和恒星形成(SF)的影响,一些第一次模拟捕捉多相,多云性质的星际介质(ISM),凭借其高空间分辨率(和相应的低温阈值)。在这一制度中,我们研究了冷流和超新星(SNe)驱动的流出在一个非常高红移星系(z { \approx } 9)之间的竞争,并研究了等质量星系合并在低和高红移的演变,重点是诱导SF。我们发现,SNe驱动的外流不能减少冷吸积在z { \approx } 9和SF实际上是增强由于随之而来的金属富集。我们演示了如何最近的几个观测结果的星系人口(例如,增强HCN/CO比在ULIRGs,一个单独的Kennicutt施密特(KS)序列的星爆和人口的紧凑的早期型星系(ETGs)在高红移)可以解释与星系合并模拟中捕获的机制,只要ISM的多相性得到解决。

英文摘要:

Two of the dominant channels for galaxy mass assembly are cold flows (cold gas supplied via the filaments of the cosmic web) and mergers. How these processes combine in a cosmological setting, at both low and high redshift, to produce the whole zoo of galaxies we observe is largely unknown. Indeed there is still much to understand about the detailed physics of each process in isolation. While these formation channels have been studied using hydrodynamical simulations, here we study their impact on gas properties and star formation (SF) with some of the first simulations that capture the multiphase, cloudy nature of the interstellar medium (ISM), by virtue of their high spatial resolution (and corresponding low temperature threshold). In this regime, we examine the competition between cold flows and a supernovae(SNe)-driven outflow in a very high-redshift galaxy (z {\approx} 9) and study the evolution of equal-mass galaxy mergers at low and high redshift, focusing on the induced SF. We find that SNe-driven outflows cannot reduce the cold accretion at z {\approx} 9 and that SF is actually enhanced due to the ensuing metal enrichment. We demonstrate how several recent observational results on galaxy populations (e.g. enhanced HCN/CO ratios in ULIRGs, a separate Kennicutt Schmidt (KS) sequence for starbursts and the population of compact early type galaxies (ETGs) at high redshift) can be explained with mechanisms captured in galaxy merger simulations, provided that the multiphase nature of the ISM is resolved.

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