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粒子标记及其对恒星星族动力学的意义

Particle tagging and its implications for stellar population dynamics

Theo Le Bret, Andrew Pontzen, Andrew P. Cooper, Carlos Frenk, Adi Zolotov, Alyson M. Brooks, Fabio Governato, Owen H. Parry

摘要:

我们建立了一个控制的银河系恒星晕的性质之间的比较与流体动力学模拟和“粒子标记”。标记是一种快速的方法来获得恒星星族动态:而不是跟踪气体和恒星的形成,它'油漆'直接到一个适当定义的暗物质粒子的子集在无碰撞,暗物质-唯一的simulation.Our研究表明,有条件下,粒子标记产生良好的适合流体动力学恒星密度分布的中央银河系和它的最突出的子结构。相空间扩散过程是重塑恒星在下降的球状系统中的分布,从而形成最终的恒星晕的关键。我们的结论是,任何特定的标签计划的成功取决于这种扩散被考虑在内,至少通过使用“活”的标签计划,其中粒子定期标记在整个星系的演化。

英文摘要:

We establish a controlled comparison between the properties of galactic stellar halos obtained with hydrodynamical simulations and with `particle tagging'. Tagging is a fast way to obtain stellar population dynamics: instead of tracking gas and star formation, it `paints' stars directly onto a suitably defined subset of dark matter particles in a collisionless, dark-matter-only simulation.Our study shows that there are conditions under which particle tagging generates good fits to the hydrodynamical stellar density profiles of a central Milky-Way-like galaxy and its most prominent substructure. Phase-space diffusion processes are crucial to reshaping the distribution of stars in infalling spheroidal systems and hence the final stellar halo. We conclude that the success of any particular tagging scheme hinges on this diffusion being taken into account, at a minimum by making use of `live' tagging schemes, in which particles are regularly tagged throughout the evolution of a galaxy.

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