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致密大质量星系的宇宙学背景

A cosmological context for compact massive galaxies

Martin Stringer, Ignacio Trujillo, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta

摘要:

为了提供一个定量的宇宙学背景下正在进行的观测工作的形成历史和位置的紧凑的大质量星系,我们定位和研究的样品非常紧凑的系统在Bolshoi模拟,使用暗物质结构参数从一个真正的,紧凑的大质量星系(NGC 1277)作为我们的工作标准的基础。我们发现,超过80%的对象在这个名义上紧凑的类别是更大质量的群体或集群的子结构,并且一个给定的大规模的子结构是这种紧凑的概率显着增加与主机结构的质量;上升到30%的模拟中最大质量的集群。追踪这个子样本的主要祖先到z=2,我们发现它们都是不同的结构,其尺度半径和密度代表了这个时期的整个种群。除了大部分成为子结构之外,使它们的历史变得模糊的是,它们几乎都经历了自z=2以来的低于平均质量的吸积;其中三分之一几乎没有保留,甚至在中间的10 Gyr期间失去质量。

英文摘要:

To provide a quantitative cosmological context to ongoing observational work on the formation histories and location of compact massive galaxies, we locate and study a sample of exceptionally compact systems in the Bolshoi simulation, using the dark matter structural parameters from a real, compact massive galaxy (NGC 1277) as a basis for our working criteria. We find that over 80% of objects in this nominal compact category are substructures of more massive groups or clusters, and that the probability of a given massive substructure being this compact increases significantly with the mass of the host structure; rising to ~30% for the most massive clusters in the simulation. Tracking the main progenitors of this subsample back to z=2, we find them all to be distinct structures with scale radii and densities representative of the population as a whole at this epoch. What does characterise their histories, in addition to mostly becoming substructures, is that they have almost all experienced below-average mass accretion since z=2; a third of them barely retaining, or even losing mass during the intervening 10 Gyr.

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