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矮星系的尖核转变:观测预言

Cusp-core transformations in dwarf galaxies: observational predictions

Romain Teyssier, Andrew Pontzen, Yohan Dubois, Justin Read

摘要:

在许多矮星系的中央千秒差距处存在暗物质核心,这一直是基于标准冷暗物质范式的星系形成理论中的一个长期存在的问题。最近的宇宙学模拟,基于光滑粒子流体力学和相当强的反馈配方已经表明,它确实有可能形成扩展的暗物质核心使用重子过程相关的一个更现实的处理星际介质。使用自适应网格细化,再加上一个新的,更强的超新星反馈计划,我们最近实施的RAMSES代码,我们表明,它也有可能形成一个突出的暗物质核心内的一个孤立的,最初是尖形的,100亿太阳质量的暗物质晕的良好控制的框架。尽管我们的数值实验是理想化的,但它可以清晰而明确地识别暗物质核心的形成过程。我们的暗物质的内部轮廓是很好地拟合的伪等温轮廓的核心半径为800 pc。成核机制与Pontzen & Governato最近提出的成核机制一致。我们强调两个关键的观测预测的所有模拟,发现尖核转换:(i)一个爆发的恒星形成历史的峰谷比为5至10和占空比可比的本地动力学时间;(ii)恒星分布是热的v/sigma=1。我们将模型星系的观测特性与最近对孤立矮WLM的测量结果进行了比较。我们发现,恒星和HI气体的空间和运动学分布与观测结果惊人的一致,支持恒星反馈在塑造恒星和暗物质分布中发挥的基本作用。

英文摘要:

The presence of a dark matter core in the central kiloparsec of many dwarf galaxies has been a long standing problem in galaxy formation theories based on the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Recent cosmological simulations, based on Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and rather strong feedback recipes have shown that it was indeed possible to form extended dark matter cores using baryonic processes related to a more realistic treatment of the interstellar medium. Using adaptive mesh refinement, together with a new, stronger supernovae feedback scheme that we have recently implemented in the RAMSES code, we show that it is also possible to form a prominent dark matter core within the well-controlled framework of an isolated, initially cuspy, 10 billion solar masses dark matter halo. Although our numerical experiment is idealized, it allows a clean and unambiguous identification of the dark matter core formation process. Our dark matter inner profile is well fitted by a pseudo-isothermal profile with a core radius of 800 pc. The core formation mechanism is consistent with the one proposed recently by Pontzen & Governato. We highlight two key observational predictions of all simulations that find cusp-core transformations: (i) a bursty star formation history with peak to trough ratio of 5 to 10 and a duty cycle comparable to the local dynamical time; and (ii) a stellar distribution that is hot with v/sigma=1. We compare the observational properties of our model galaxy with recent measurements of the isolated dwarf WLM. We show that the spatial and kinematical distribution of stars and HI gas are in striking agreement with observations, supporting the fundamental role played by stellar feedback in shaping both the stellar and dark matter distribution.

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