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基于受控模拟的合并时标的改进处方

An improved prescription for merger time-scales from controlled simulations

Álvaro Villalobos, Gabriella De Lucia, Simone Weinmann, Stefano Borgani, Giuseppe Murante

摘要:

我们比较三个分析处方合并时间从文献中孤立的合并模拟。我们探测了这颗卫星的三种不同的红移,以及几种晕浓度、质量比、轨道圆度和轨道能量。我们发现,在文献中提供的处方显着低于预测的长期尺度合并在高红移。我们认为,这些结果并没有突出显示以前要么是因为卫星星系的晕浓度的演变被忽视(在以前的孤立合并模拟),或者因为合并时间长,合并与高初始轨道圆度是代表不足(处方的基础上宇宙学模拟)。受固定质量下晕浓度演化的影响,在红移0<z<2的范围内,将对红移的显式依赖性添加为t_merger,修正(z)=(1+z)^0.44 t_merger到基于孤立合并的处方中,使预测的合并时间显著改善,最高可达~20 t_dyn。当这个修改后的处方被用来计算星系恒星质量函数,我们发现,它导致了25%的低质量星系的数量增加,在z=0时,更大的星系增加了10%。这使得星系形成的分级模型对低质量星系数量的过度预测更加恶化。

英文摘要:

We compare three analytical prescriptions for merger times available from the literature to simulations of isolated mergers. We probe three different redshifts, and several halo concentrations, mass ratios, orbital circularities and orbital energies of the satellite. We find that prescriptions available in the literature significantly under-predict long timescales for mergers at high redshift. We argue that these results have not been highlighted previously either because the evolution of halo concentration of satellite galaxies has been neglected (in previous isolated merger simulations), or because long merger times and mergers with high initial orbital circularities are under-represented (for prescriptions based on cosmological simulations). Motivated by the evolution of halo concentration at fixed mass, an explicit dependence on redshift added as t_merger,modified(z) = (1+z)^0.44 t_merger to the prescription based on isolated mergers gives a significant improvement in the predicted merger times up to ~20 t_dyn in the redshift range 0<z<2. When this modified prescription is used to compute galaxy stellar mass functions, we find that it leads up to a 25 per cent increase in the number of low mass galaxies surviving at z=0, and a 10 per cent increase for more massive galaxies. This worsen the known over-prediction in the number of low mass galaxies by hierarchical models of galaxy formation.

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