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自旋翻转I:Milky Way质量暗物质晕的angular momentum取向的演化

Spin flips I: Evolution of the angular momentum orientation of Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes

Philip E. Bett, Carlos S. Frenk

摘要:

在冷暗物质晕的生长过程中,它的自旋方向会发生迅速的变化。这可能会破坏甚至摧毁在晕中形成的恒星盘,可能导致凸起或球体的产生。我们调查的频率显着变化的方向的角动量矢量的暗物质晕(“自旋翻转”),其程度的相关性合并。我们专注于类似的银河系(MW)晕在红移z=0(log M/(Msol/h)= 12.0至12.5)的质量晕,并考虑翻转的自旋的整个晕或只是其内部的部分。我们发现,更大比例的主要合并与大自旋翻转比小合并。然而,由于重大合并很少见,因此绝大多数(93%)大型全晕自旋翻转(角度变化>= 45度)与小的质量变化相一致,而不是重大合并。内晕的自旋矢量比整个晕经历更频繁的翻转。在它们的整个生命周期中(即在光环获得其最终质量的一半之后),超过10%的光环在整个光环的旋转中经历了至少45度的翻转,近60%的光环在内部光环中经历了如此大的翻转。当我们只考虑形成后没有重大合并的晕时,这些数字对于整个晕减少到9%,对于内晕减少到47%。我们的分析表明,自旋翻转(其影响目前不包括在星系形成模型)可能是一个重要的因素,在盘星系的形态转变。

英文摘要:

During the growth of a cold dark matter halo, the direction of its spin can undergo rapid changes. These could disrupt or even destroy a stellar disc forming in the halo, possibly resulting in the generation of a bulge or spheroid. We investigate the frequency of significant changes in the orientation of the angular momentum vector of dark matter haloes ("spin flips"), and their degree of correlation with mergers. We focus on haloes of mass similar to that of the Milky Way (MW) halo at redshift z=0 (log M/(Msol/h) = 12.0 to 12.5) and consider flips in the spin of the whole halo or just its inner parts. We find that a greater fraction of major mergers are associated with large spin flips than minor mergers. However, since major mergers are rare, the vast majority (93%) of large whole-halo spin flips (angle change >= 45 degrees) coincide with small mass changes, not major mergers. The spin vector of the inner halo experiences much more frequent flips than the halo as a whole. Over their entire lifetimes (i.e. after a halo acquires half of its final mass), over 10% of halos experience a flip of at least 45 degrees in the spin of the entire halo and nearly 60 percent experience a flip this large in the inner halo. These numbers are reduced to 9 percent for the whole halo and 47 percent for the inner halo when we consider only haloes with no major mergers after formation. Our analysis suggests that spin flips (whose effects are not currently included in galaxy formation models) could be an important factor in the morphological transformation of disc galaxies.

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