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致密星系群对暗淡的星系有敌意吗?

Are compact groups hostile towards faint galaxies?

Ariel Zandivarez, Eugenia Diaz-Gimenez, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Henrique Gubolin

摘要:

这项工作的目标是了解致密星系群的极端环境是否会影响其周围微弱星系的分布和丰度。我们对致密星系群和正常星系群附近的微弱星系群进行了分析。我们建立了一个光锥模拟星系目录建造的千禧年运行模拟II加上半分析模型的星系形成。我们在模拟目录中确定了一个紧凑的群体样本以及正常星系群的对照样本,并计算了第一和第二排名星系周围的暗淡星系的投影数密度分布。我们还比较了从半解析星系在紧凑的群体与观测数据中获得的配置文件。此外,我们调查是否排名或光度的星系是最重要的参数,在确定的中心周围的集群的微弱星系发生。与对照组相比,极端紧凑的星系群环境对这些星系群中微弱星系的数量没有特别的影响。当选择第一和第二排名星系之间的间距与致密星系群中观察到的相似的正常星系群时,致密星系群和正常星系群中的暗星系投影数密度轮廓在形状和高度上相似。我们在靠近第一和第二排名星系的区域的观测和模拟中观察到了微弱星系人口的类似行为。最后,我们发现,暗星系的投影密度更高的发光星系周围,无论在紧凑组的排名。半分析方法表明,致密星系群及其周围环境并不足以使暗淡星系的行为与正常星系群不同。

英文摘要:

The goal of this work is to understand whether the extreme environment of compact groups can affect the distribution and abundance of faint galaxies around them. We performed an analysis of the faint galaxy population in the vicinity of compact groups and normal groups. We built a light-cone mock galaxy catalogue constructed from the Millennium Run Simulation II plus a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation. We identified a sample of compact groups in the mock catalogue as well as a control sample of normal galaxy groups and computed the projected number density profiles of faint galaxies around the first- and the second-ranked galaxies. We also compared the profiles obtained from the semi-analytical galaxies in compact groups with those obtained from observational data. In addition, we investigated whether the ranking or the luminosity of a galaxy is the most important parameter in the determination of the centre around which the clustering of faint galaxies occurs. There is no particular influence of the extreme compact group environment on the number of faint galaxies in such groups compared to control groups. When selecting normal groups with separations between the 1st and 2nd ranked galaxies similar to what is observed in compact groups, the faint galaxy projected number density profiles in compact groups and normal groups are similar in shape and height. We observed a similar behaviour of the population of faint galaxies in observations and simulations in the regions closer to the 1st and 2nd ranked galaxies. Finally, we find that the projected density of faint galaxies is higher around luminous galaxies,regardless of the ranking in the compact group. The semi-analytical approach shows that compact groups and their surroundings do not represent a hostile enough environment to make faint galaxies to behave differently than in normal groups.

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