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星系晕中和周围气体的性质

Properties of gas in and around galaxy haloes

Freeke van de Voort, Joop Schaye

摘要:

我们研究了星系晕内部和周围气体的性质作为半径和晕质量的函数,主要集中在z = 2,但也显示了一些结果z = 0。为此,我们使用一套大型宇宙学,流体动力学模拟从OverWhelmomentally大型模拟项目。冷模和热模气体的性质,我们根据它在河外时的温度是否高于10^5.5 K来区分,在大质量晕的外部(维里温度>> 10^5 K)是可以清楚区分的。冷态气体和热态气体之间的差异类似于流入气体和流出气体之间的差异。冷模气体主要局限于与扩散的热模气体近似处于压力平衡的凝块细丝。除了更冷和密度更大之外,冷模式气体通常具有更低的金属含量,并且更有可能坠落。然而,即使对于给定的模式和固定的半径和晕质量,气体性质的差异也很大,这使得不可能对单个气体云做出强有力的陈述。金属线冷却在中央星系附近引起强烈的冷却流,这使得很难区分内晕中通过冷模式和热模式吸积的气体。更强的反馈导致更大的流出速度,并将热模气体推向更大的半径。气体性质的演变,如预期的维里参数,这也可以解释许多气体性质的依赖晕质量。我们认为,冷流穿透热晕是可观察到的高柱密度HI莱曼α吸收系统在视线附近的大规模前景星系。

英文摘要:

We study the properties of gas inside and around galaxy haloes as a function of radius and halo mass, focussing mostly on z=2, but also showing some results for z=0. For this purpose, we use a suite of large cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations from the OverWhelmingly Large Simulations project. The properties of cold- and hot-mode gas, which we separate depending on whether the temperature has been higher than 10^5.5 K while it was extragalactic, are clearly distinguishable in the outer parts of massive haloes (virial temperatures >> 10^5 K. The differences between cold- and hot-mode gas resemble those between inflowing and outflowing gas. The cold-mode gas is mostly confined to clumpy filaments that are approximately in pressure equilibrium with the diffuse, hot-mode gas. Besides being colder and denser, cold-mode gas typically has a much lower metallicity and is much more likely to be infalling. However, the spread in the properties of the gas is large, even for a given mode and a fixed radius and halo mass, which makes it impossible to make strong statements about individual gas clouds. Metal-line cooling causes a strong cooling flow near the central galaxy, which makes it hard to distinguish gas accreted through the cold and hot modes in the inner halo. Stronger feedback results in larger outflow velocities and pushes hot-mode gas to larger radii. The gas properties evolve as expected from virial arguments, which can also account for the dependence of many gas properties on halo mass. We argue that cold streams penetrating hot haloes are observable as high-column density HI Lyman-alpha absorption systems in sightlines near massive foreground galaxies.

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