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星系与质量集合体(GAMA):寻找Milky-Way麦哲伦云类似物

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): In Search of Milky-Way Magellanic Cloud Analogues

A. S. G. Robotham, I. K. Baldry, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. P. Driver, J. Loveday, P. Norberg, A. E. Bauer, K. Bekki, S. Brough, M. Brown, A. W. Graham, A. M. Hopkin… 展开作者

A. S. G. Robotham, I. K. Baldry, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. P. Driver, J. Loveday, P. Norberg, A. E. Bauer, K. Bekki, S. Brough, M. Brown, A. W. Graham, A. M. Hopkins, S. Phillipps, C. Power, A. Sansom, L. Staveley-Smith

摘要:

分析所有星系和质量集合体(GAMA)星系在银河系恒星质量(MW)的2倍(+/- 0.3 dex)内,有11.9%的机会,这些星系中的一个将有一个近伴星(在70 kpc的投影距离和400 km/s的径向距离内),至少与大麦云(LMC)一样大。在3.4%的水平上,两个至少和小麦哲伦星云(SMC)一样大的亲密同伴是罕见的。在GAMA中发现了两个完全类似于MW-LMC-SMC系统的星系(所有星系都是晚型星系和恒星形成星系),这表明这种紧密结合的晚型恒星形成星系是罕见的:只有0.4%的MW质量星系(在我们可以观察到LMC和SMC的范围内)具有这样的系统。总之,MW-LMC-SMC系统是一个2.7?事件(当转换为高斯统计时)。使用互相关比较,我们发现,有一个优先选择的SMC-LMC二元对类似物位于2 Mpc的范围内的不同的亮度组。有一个特别的偏好是这样的双星位于LG光度系统附近。当这些组被细分为小星等间隙和大星等间隙子集时,双星更喜欢与小星等间隙系统在空间上相关联。这些系统在动力学上的进化程度会降低,但仍然提供相同数量的引力暗物质。这表明像SMC-LMC这样的双星可能是短暂的系统,通常在剧烈的合并事件中被摧毁。详细的一个特别引人注目的类似物的MW-SMC-LMC和M31复合物包括在内。

英文摘要:

Analysing all Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) galaxies within a factor two (+/- 0.3 dex) of the stellar mass of the Milky Way (MW), there is a 11.9% chance that one of these galaxies will have a close companion (within a projected separation of 70 kpc and radial separation of 400 km/s) that is at least as massive as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Two close companions at least as massive as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are rare at the 3.4% level. Two full analogues to the MW- LMC-SMC system were found in GAMA (all galaxies late-type and star forming), suggesting such a combination of close together, late-type, star-forming galaxies is rare: only 0.4% of MW mass galaxies (in the range where we could observe both the LMC and SMC) have such a system. In summary, the MW-LMC-SMC system is a 2.7? event (when recast into Gaussian statistics). Using cross-correlation comparisons we find that there is a preference for SMC- LMC binary pair analogues to be located within 2 Mpc of a range of different lumi- nosity groups. There is a particular preference is for such binaries to be located near LG luminosity systems. When these groups are subdivided into small magnitude gap and large magnitude gap subsets, the binaries prefer to be spatially associated with the small magnitude gap systems. These systems will be dynamically less evolved, but still offer the same amount of gravitational dark matter. This suggests that binaries such as the SMC-LMC might be transient systems, usually destroyed during vigorous merger events. Details of a particularly striking analogue to the MW-SMC-LMC and M31 complex are included.

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