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宇宙流体动力学模拟中红序列星系的增长

The Growth of Red Sequence Galaxies in a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulation

J. M. Gabor, R. Davé

摘要:

我们研究宇宙的红色序列的宇宙增长在宇宙流体动力学模拟,其中包括一个启发式的处方淬火恒星形成,产生一个现实的被动星系人口的今天。在这个处方中,由热气体主导的晕被持续加热,以防止它们的日冕为新恒星的形成提供燃料。热日冕主要形成于\sim 10^12 M \odot以上的晕中,因此恒星质量为\sim 10^10.5 M \odot的星系最先熄灭,并在z > 2时移动到红色序列上。红色序列中同时存在着大量缺乏新燃料的大晕中的低质量卫星星系,导致\sim 10 ^10 M \odot附近的被动星系数密度下降。即使在加入红色序列之后,星系的恒星质量仍在继续增长,主要是通过典型质量比为\sim 1:5的微小合并。对于最大质量的系统,合并质量比的分布所暗示的尺寸增长通常是\sim 2 \times,相应的质量增长,与观测结果一致。这个模型再现了局部宇宙中的质量密度和颜色密度趋势,基本上没有演化到z = 1,暗示这样的关系可能被z \sim 2冲掉。模拟星系在高质量或高局部超密度时越来越有可能是红色的。在我们的模型中,周围热气体的存在推动了质量和环境的趋势。

英文摘要:

We examine the cosmic growth of the red sequence in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that includes a heuristic prescription for quenching star formation that yields a realistic passive galaxy population today. In this prescription, halos dominated by hot gas are continually heated to prevent their coronae from fueling new star formation. Hot coronae primarily form in halos above \sim10^12 M\odot, so that galaxies with stellar masses \sim10^10.5 M\odot are the first to be quenched and move onto the red sequence at z > 2. The red sequence is concurrently populated at low masses by satellite galaxies in large halos that are starved of new fuel, resulting in a dip in passive galaxy number densities around \sim10^10 M\odot. Stellar mass growth continues for galaxies even after joining the red sequence, primarily through minor mergers with a typical mass ratio \sim1:5. For the most massive systems, the size growth implied by the distribution of merger mass ratios is typically \sim2\times the corresponding mass growth, consistent with observations. This model reproduces mass-density and colour-density trends in the local universe, with essentially no evolution to z = 1, with the hint that such relations may be washed out by z \sim 2. Simulated galaxies are increasingly likely to be red at high masses or high local overdensities. In our model, the presence of surrounding hot gas drives the trends with both mass and environment.

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