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星系飞越相互作用的初步研究:在宇宙学背景下表征飞越的频率

A First Look at Galaxy Flyby Interactions: Characterizing the Frequency of Flybys in a Cosmological Context

Manodeep Sinha, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

摘要:

层次结构形成理论是基于合并驱动星系演化的概念,因此已经构建了相当大的半解析模型和N体模拟框架来计算合并如何改变一个成长中的星系。然而,星系合并只是晕之间主要动力学相互作用的一种类型-另一类相遇,近距离飞越,在很大程度上被忽视了。我们分析了一个50兆秒差距/小时,$1024^3$无碰撞宇宙学模拟,发现密切的飞越相互作用的数量是相当的,甚至超过,合并的晕质量$\ga 10^{11}\,{h^{-1} M_\odot}$在$z \la 2$的数量。晕飞掠发生如此频繁,高质量的晕,他们不断扰动,无法达到动力学平衡。我们还发现了初步的证据,在高红移,$z \ga 14$,flybys是频繁的合并。我们的研究结果表明,近晕飞掠在最早期的暗物质晕及其星系的演化中起着重要的作用,并且仍然可以影响到现在的星系演化。

英文摘要:

Hierarchical structure formation theory is based on the notion that mergers drive galaxy evolution, so a considerable framework of semi-analytic models and N-body simulations has been constructed to calculate how mergers transform a growing galaxy. However, galaxy mergers are only one type of major dynamical interaction between halos -- another class of encounter, a close flyby, has been largely ignored. We analyze a 50 Mpc/h, $1024^3$ collisionless cosmological simulation and find that the number of close flyby interactions is comparable to, or even surpasses, the number of mergers for halo masses $\ga 10^{11}\,{h^{-1} M_\odot}$ at $z \la 2$. Halo flybys occur so frequently to high mass halos that they are continually perturbed, unable to reach a dynamical equilibrium. We also find tentative evidence that at high redshift, $z \ga 14$, flybys are as frequent as mergers. Our results suggest that close halo flybys can play an important role in the evolution of the earliest dark matter halos and their galaxies, and can still influence galaxy evolution at the present epoch.

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