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银河集团的合并。II。椭圆振子的基本平面

Mergers in Galaxy Groups. II. The Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies

Dan S. Taranu, John Dubinski, H. K. C. Yee

摘要:

观测结果一致表明,椭圆星系遵循一个紧密的“基本平面”的大小,平均表面亮度和速度色散之间的比例关系,与形式$R \propto σ^{a}μ^{b}$。该关系不仅具有非常小的(<0.05 dex)内在散射,而且具有与预期维里缩放显著不同的系数(“倾斜”)。我们分析了数百个模拟的螺旋星系合并形成的椭圆星系群,以确定是否可以出现多个基本面,主要是次要的和层次的无碰撞合并。我们发现这些模拟的椭圆星系与$a \approx 1.7$和$b \approx 0.3$处在一个相似的基本平面上。关于这个平面的散射并不比观测到的大,而倾斜是正确的,尽管$a$比典型的观测大。这支持了这样的观点,即无碰撞合并可以显着地促进基本平面的倾斜。这种倾斜主要是由质量相关的暗物质分数驱动的,因此质量越大的星系在$R_{e}$中的暗物质分数越大。我们进一步讨论了这种质量依赖的暗物质分数的起源和它与强透镜观测的兼容性,以及基本平面,动力学质量和维里定理之间的联系。

英文摘要:

Observations consistently show that elliptical galaxies follow a tight "fundamental plane" scaling relation between size, mean surface brightness and velocity dispersion, with the form $R \propto σ^{a}μ^{b}$. This relation not only has very small (<0.05 dex) intrinsic scatter, but also has significantly different coefficients from the expected virial scaling (a "tilt"). We analyze hundreds of simulations of elliptical galaxies formed from mergers of spiral galaxies in groups to determine if the fundamental plane can emerge from multiple, mostly minor and hierarchical collisionless mergers. We find that these simulated ellipticals lie on a similar fundamental plane with $a \approx 1.7$ and $b \approx 0.3$. The scatter about this plane is not larger than observed, while the tilt is in the correct sense, although $a$ is larger than for typical observations. This supports the idea that collisionless mergers can contribute significantly to the tilt of the fundamental plane. The tilt is mainly driven by a mass-dependent dark matter fraction, such that more massive galaxies have larger dark matter fractions within $R_{e}$. We further discuss the origin of this mass-dependent dark matter fraction and its compatibility with strong lensing observations, as well as the links between the fundamental plane, dynamical masses and the virial theorem.

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