The kinematics of the Local Group in a cosmological context
Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Yehuda Hoffman, Sebastian Bustamante, Stefan Gottloeber, Gustavo Yepes
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6 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. For full data and source code (IPython notebook) to reproduce the results, see: https://github.com/forero/LG_Kinematics
最近的观测表明,M31相对于银河系的切向速度v_tan<34.4 km/s,径向速度v_rad=-109+/- 4.4 km/s(van der Marel等人,2012年)。在这项研究中,我们使用一个大容量的高分辨率N体宇宙学模拟(Bolshoi)连同三个约束模拟统计研究这种运动学的背景下,LCDM。在1-sigma水平的不确定性的模拟对与观察到的LG的合奏的比较已经完成了相对于径向和切向速度,约化轨道能量(e_tot),角动量(l_orb)和无量纲自旋参数,λ。我们的主要结果是:(i)在LCDM中,对的优选径向和切向速度为v_rad=-80+/-20 km/s,v_tan=50+/-10 km/s,(ii)在该区域周围的对比观测值内的对多3至13倍,(iii)LCDM中15%到24%的类LG对具有与观测一致的能量和角动量,而(iv)9%到13%在同一样品中的对在推断的无量纲自旋参数中显示相似的值。因此,在当前观测的不确定性范围内,描述LG轨道特征的准守恒量,即e_tot、r_orb和lambda,并不挑战标准LCDM模型,但该模型在径向和切向速度的实际值方面处于紧张状态。这可能暗示了LCDM模型再现观测到的LG的问题。
英文摘要:
Recent observations constrained the tangential velocity of M31 with respect to the Milky Way (MW) to be v_tan<34.4 km/s and the radial velocity to be in the range v_rad=-109+/- 4.4 km/s (van der Marel et al. 2012). In this study we use a large volume high resolution N-body cosmological simulation (Bolshoi) together with three constrained simulations to statistically study this kinematics in the context of the LCDM. The comparison of the ensembles of simulated pairs with the observed LG at the 1-sigma level in the uncertainties has been done with respect to the radial and tangential velocities, the reduced orbital energy (e_tot), angular momentum (l_orb) and the dimensionless spin parameter, lambda. Our main results are: (i) the preferred radial and tangential velocities for pairs in LCDM are v_rad=-80+/-20 km/s, v_tan=50+/-10 km/s, (ii) pairs around that region are 3 to 13 times more common than pairs within the observational values, (iii) 15%to 24% of LG-like pairs in LCDM have energy and angular momentum consistent with observations while (iv) 9% to 13% of pairs in the same sample show similar values in the inferred dimensionless spin parameter. It follows that within current observational uncertainties the quasi-conserved quantities that characterize the orbit of the LG, i.e. e_tot, r_orb and lambda, do not challenge the standard LCDM model, but the model is in tension with regard to the actual values of the radial and tangential velocities. This might hint to a problem of the LCDM model to reproduce the observed LG.
Cosmological Applications of the Gaussian Kinematic Formula
高斯运动学公式(GKF,参见Adler and Taylor(2007,2011))是一个非常强大的工具,允许在现实的宇宙学数据收集实验条件下对Minkowski泛函的期望值进行显式的分析预测。在本文中,我们实现了Minkowski泛函的多极子和针组件的CMB字段,从而允许更好地控制宇宙方差和提取信息的谐波和实域;然后,我们利用GKF提供他们的期望值的球面地图上,在存在任意的天空面具,在非高斯的情况下。所有的结果都通过数值实验进行了验证,实验结果表明理论预测与蒙特卡罗模拟结果吻合良好。
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理研究所);University of Southern California(南加州大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Simons Society of Fellows, Simons Foundation(西蒙斯基金会西蒙斯学者协会);Cornell University(康奈尔大学);Sapienza University of Rome(罗马第一大学);Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);University of California, Riverside(加州大学河滨分校);Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile(智利天主教 Pontificia 大学);Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile(智利天主教 Pontificia 大学物理学院天体物理研究所);Centro de Astro-Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile(智利天主教 Pontificia 大学天文工程中心)
Robustness of pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect to optical-cluster-selection bias
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität(路德维希-马克西米利安大学);Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)(马克斯·普朗克地外物理研究所);Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA)(中央研究院天文及天文物理研究所);Excellence Cluster ORIGINS(ORIGINS卓越集群);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik(马克斯·普朗克天体物理研究所);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);Southern Methodist University(南方卫理公会大学);European Southern Observatory(欧洲南方天文台);University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学)
Signatures of Massive Black Hole Merger Host Galaxies from Cosmological Simulations II: Unique Stellar Kinematics in Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy
Bishop's University(主教大学);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);McGill Space Institute(麦吉尔空间研究所);McGill University(麦吉尔大学);University College Cork(科克大学学院)