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遥远星系-星系碰撞过程中热晕气体对恒星形成和质量转移的影响

Effects of hot halo gas on the star formation and mass transfer during distant galaxy-galaxy encounters

Jeong-Sun Hwang, Changbom Park

摘要:

利用$N$ -体/光滑粒子流体动力学方法模拟了一个早型星系(ETG)和一个晚型星系(LTG)的相遇过程,研究了热晕气体对ETG和LTG质量比为2:1,最近接近距离为$\sim$ 100 kpc的情况下星系演化的影响.我们发现,潮桥中的冷盘气体的动力学和新形成的恒星的数量强烈依赖于气体晕的存在。在没有热气晕的相互作用星系中,吸积到ETG中的气体和恒星不包括新形成的恒星。然而,在运行中使用ETG与气体晕和LTG没有气体晕,冲击形成沿磁盘气体潮桥和诱导恒星形成附近的最接近的方法。激波阵面平行于冷气体流向ETG中心的通道。因此,ETG可以在其中心及其附近吸积恒星形成的冷气体和新生恒星。当两个星系都有热气晕时,在最接近的时候,在两个气晕之间会形成一个激波。激波阻碍了冷气体桥到ETG的生长,并使其电离,只有部分盘星通过星桥转移。我们的结论是,热晕气体可以给显着的流体动力学效应,在遥远的遭遇。

英文摘要:

We use $N$-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of encounters between an early-type galaxy (ETG) and a late-type galaxy (LTG) to study the effects of hot halo gas on the evolution for a case with the mass ratio of the ETG to LTG of 2:1 and the closest approach distance of $\sim$100 kpc. We find that the dynamics of the cold disk gas in the tidal bridge and the amount of the newly formed stars depend strongly on the existence of a gas halo. In the run of interacting galaxies not having a hot gas halo, the gas and stars accreted into the ETG do not include newly formed stars. However, in the run using the ETG with a gas halo and the LTG without a gas halo, a shock forms along the disk gas tidal bridge and induces star formation near the closest approach. The shock front is parallel to a channel along which the cold gas flows toward the center of the ETG. As a result, the ETG can accrete star-forming cold gas and newly born stars at and near its center. When both galaxies have hot gas halos, a shock is formed between the two gas halos somewhat before the closest approach. The shock hinders the growth of the cold gas bridge to the ETG and also ionizes it. Only some of the disk stars transfer through the stellar bridge. We conclude that the hot halo gas can give significant hydrodynamic effects during distant encounters.

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