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经典Milky Way卫星的宇宙跃迁

The Cosmic Abundance of Classical Milky Way Satellites

Louis E. Strigari, Risa H. Wechsler

摘要:

我们研究了斯隆数字巡天中与银河系和M31大小和孤立度相似的星系周围最明亮的经典矮椭球体卫星的丰度。从光度和光谱红移的组合,我们绑定的平均值和内在散射的卫星数量下降到10个星等比银河系暗。限制的幅度比人马座亮,我们表明,银河系是不是一个显着的统计离群值在其人口的经典矮椭球。在较暗的星等,我们发现一个上限为13的卫星比天炉座矮椭球亮的平均数。利用全光度红移分布来改善这些限制的方法是有希望的,但目前在最低红移处受到不完整性的限制。理论模型被用来解释为什么大多数环绕银河系的暗物质暗晕在制造最亮的矮椭球体的光度尺度上效率低下,或者为什么这些暗晕不存在。

英文摘要:

We study the abundance of satellites akin to the brightest, classical dwarf spheroidals around galaxies similar in magnitude and isolation to the Milky Way and M31 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. From a combination of photometric and spectroscopic redshifts, we bound the mean and the intrinsic scatter in the number of satellites down to ten magnitudes fainter than the Milky Way. Restricting to magnitudes brighter than Sagittarius, we show that the Milky Way is not a significant statistical outlier in its population of classical dwarf spheroidals. At fainter magnitudes, we find an upper limit of 13 on the mean number of satellites brighter than the Fornax dwarf spheroidal. Methods to improve these limits that utilize full photometric redshift distributions hold promise, but are currently limited by incompleteness at the very lowest redshifts. Theoretical models are left to explain why the majority of dark matter subhalos that orbit Milky Way-like galaxies are inefficient at making galaxies at the luminosity scale of the brightest dwarf spheroidals, or why these subhalos predicted by Lambda-CDM do not exist.

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