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恒星反馈对类Milky Way星系及其气晕的影响

The effect of stellar feedback on a Milky Way-like galaxy and its gaseous halo

Antonino Marasco, Victor P. Debattista, Filippo Fraternali, Thijs van der Hulst, James Wadsley, Thomas Quinn, Rok Roškar

摘要:

本文采用N体+SPH方法模拟了一个类银河系统,该系统是由嵌入在暗物质晕中的热气体辐射冷却而产生的。银河系及其气态晕孤立地演化了10 Gyr,这使我们能够研究内部过程如何影响系统的演化。我们展示了输入超新星反馈能量E $_{\rm SN}$如何影响星系的形态、运动学和演化,并将其性质与银河系进行了比较。不同的E $_{\rm SN}$值对系统的恒星形成历史没有显著影响,但随着反馈的增加,冷气体盘变得更厚,更湍流。我们的主要结果是,对于所考虑的E $_{\rm SN}$的最高值,该星系显示出一个突出的平面外冷气体层(log(T)<4.3),在$10^{19}$ cm $^{-2}$的柱密度下延伸到盘上方几kpc。这种物质的运动学与我们银河系和NGC 891的HI晕推断一致,尽管它的质量较低。此外,热气体(5.3<log(T)<5.7)的位置、运动学和典型柱密度与银河系晕和外星系中O $_{\rm VI}$吸收系统确定的结果非常一致。然而,与观测结果相反,在我们系统的环星系区域,log(T)<5.3的气体是缺乏的。

英文摘要:

We present the study of a set of N-body+SPH simulations of a Milky Way-like system produced by the radiative cooling of hot gas embedded in a dark matter halo. The galaxy and its gaseous halo evolve for 10 Gyr in isolation, which allows us to study how internal processes affect the evolution of the system. We show how the morphology, the kinematics and the evolution of the galaxy are affected by the input supernova feedback energy E$_{\rm SN}$, and we compare its properties with those of the Milky Way. Different values of E$_{\rm SN}$ do not significantly affect the star formation history of the system, but the disc of cold gas gets thicker and more turbulent as feedback increases. Our main result is that, for the highest value of E$_{\rm SN}$ considered, the galaxy shows a prominent layer of extra-planar cold (log(T)<4.3) gas extended up to a few kpc above the disc at column densities of $10^{19}$ cm$^{-2}$. The kinematics of this material is in agreement with that inferred for the HI halos of our Galaxy and NGC 891, although its mass is lower. Also, the location, the kinematics and the typical column densities of the hot (5.3<log(T)<5.7) gas are in good agreement with those determined from the O$_{\rm VI}$ absorption systems in the halo of the Milky Way and external galaxies. In contrast with the observations, however, gas at log(T)<5.3 is lacking in the circumgalactic region of our systems.

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