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温暖的暗物质宇宙中恒星星族的年龄

The ages of stellar populations in a warm dark matter universe

Francesco Calura, Nicola Menci, Anna Gallazzi

摘要:

通过一个星系形成的半解析模型,我们展示了如何通过假设DM功率谱具有小尺度截止来影响当地观测到的年龄和星系恒星质量之间的关系。我们比较了通过两个λ-冷暗物质(LambdaCDM)和λ-暖暗物质(LambdaWDM)功率谱-抑制相对于LambdaCDM在1百万秒差距以下的尺度得到的结果。我们表明,在一个LWDM宇宙学与热遗迹粒子质量为0.75千电子伏,无论是质量加权和光度加权的年龄-质量关系是陡峭的比那些在一个Lambda CDM宇宙,更好地与观测到的关系。此外,观察到的差异和累积年龄分布更好地再现在一个LambdaWDM宇宙学。在这样的情况下,恒星的形成出现全球延迟相对于λ CDM,特别是在低质量星系。模型结果和观测结果之间很难完全一致,这要归咎于我们目前对重子物理学的理解不足。

英文摘要:

By means of a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, we show how the local observed relation between age and galactic stellar mass is affected by assuming a DM power spectrum with a small-scale cutoff. We compare results obtained by means of both a Lambda-cold dark matter (LambdaCDM) and a Lambda-warm dark matter (LambdaWDM) power spectrum - suppressed with respect to the LambdaCDM at scales below ~ 1 Mpc. We show that, within a LWDM cosmology with a thermal relic particle mass of 0.75 keV, both the mass-weighted and the luminosity-weighted age-mass relations are steeper than those obtained within a LambdaCDM universe, in better agreement with the observed relations. Moreover, both the observed differential and cumulative age distributions are better reproduced within a LambdaWDM cosmology. In such a scenario, star formation appears globally delayed with respect to the LambdaCDM, in particular in low-mass galaxies. The difficulty of obtaining a full agreement between model results and observations is to be ascribed to our present poor understanding of baryonic physics.

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