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超暗矮球状星系$M/L$值的概率分布:IMF的随机抽样

Probabilistic distributions of $M/L$ values for ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies: stochastic samplings of the IMF

X. Hernandez

摘要:

由于固定IMF、年龄和金属丰度的恒星星族的总质量趋于无穷大,因此固有的$M/L$值很快收敛到与所讨论的恒星细节相关的固定数字。当涉及非常小的恒星星族时,IMF的随机采样将产生$M/L$值的固有扩展,这将成为概率量。对于最近发现的总光度低于10^3 L_V/L_o的超暗矮球状星系,用固有的$M/L$值来估计其概率分布的幅度是很重要的。这些系统的重子总质量通常由它们的光度来估计,假设固定的、确定性的$M/L$值,适合于无限的粒子数极限。这些重子总质量对于结构形成场景的测试至关重要,因为局部超微弱矮椭球体代表了已知的最极端的星系尺度。也受到可靠的$M/L$值,是使用这些系统之间的可能判别暗物质和修改的重力理论。通过模拟大量的恒星星族,每个群体由一个特定的单个恒星的集合组成,我们计算得到的$M/L$值的统计分布。对于在超暗矮椭球体观测范围内的恒星总数,恒星星族的固有$M/L$值可以预期以3倍以上的因子变化,有趣的是,系统地向比对应于无限人口极限的更高的值倾斜。这可以解释这些系统中重子质量的部分扩散,在固定的恒星速度色散下,这些系统也出现了系统性的向高暗重子质量比的转移。

英文摘要:

As the total mass of stellar populations of fixed IMF, age and metallicity tends to infinity, resulting intrinsic $M/L$ values quickly converge to fixed numbers associated to the particulars of the stars in question. When going to very small stellar populations, the stochastic sampling of the IMF will yield an inherent spread for the $M/L$ values, which will become probabilistic quantities. For the recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies, with total luminosities dropping below 10^3 L_V/L_o, it is important to asses the amplitude of the probabilistic spread in inherent $M/L$ values. The total baryonic masses of these systems are usually estimated from their luminosities, assuming fixed, deterministic $M/L$ values, suitable for the infinite population limit. These total baryonic masses are crucial for the testing of structure formation scenarios, as the local ultra-faint dwarf spheroidals represent the most extreme galactic scales known. Also subject to reliable $M/L$ values, is the use of these systems as possible discriminants between dark matter and modified gravity theories. By simulating large collections of stellar populations, each consisting of a particular collection of individual stars, we compute statistical distributions for the resulting $M/L$ values. For total numbers of stars in the range of what is observed for the ultra-faint dwarf spheroidals, inherent $M/L$ values of stellar populations can be expected to vary by factors of upwards of 3, interestingly, systematically skewed towards higher values than what corresponds to the infinite population limit. This can explain part of the spread in reported baryonic masses for these systems, which also appear as shifted systematically towards high dark to baryonic mass ratios at fixed stellar velocity dispersions.

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