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DES矮星的麦哲伦起源

A Magellanic Origin of the DES Dwarfs

Prashin Jethwa, Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov

摘要:

我们建立了麦哲伦云(MC)和矮星系候选人之间的联系,发现在暗能量调查(DES)通过建立一个动力学模型的MC卫星人口,一套广泛的定制的数值模拟的基础上。我们的模型考虑到银河系的响应,MC的动力学摩擦所经历的MC和MC卫星的主机的中断。模拟套件的样本在MC的自行,MW和云本身的质量的不确定性,并允许在MC卫星的固有体积密度分布的灵活性。因此,我们可以准确地再现DES卫星的观测位置和运动学。假设银河系(MW)矮星遵循$Λ$ CDM中的亚晕分布,我们进一步证明,在14颗观测到的卫星中,MW晕贡献了不到4(8)颗,置信度为68%(95%),7(12)颗DES矮星属于LMC的概率大于0.7(0.5)。在整个套件的边缘化,我们限制麦哲伦卫星的总数在~70,周围的$10^{11}M_\odot$的大麦哲伦星云的质量,并表明,云可能只经历了一个银河系的近心通道到目前为止。最后,我们给出了预测的视线速度和自行的卫星发现在LMC附近。

英文摘要:

We establish the connection between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) by building a dynamical model of the MC satellite populations, based on an extensive suite of tailor-made numerical simulations. Our model takes into account the response of the Galaxy to the MCs infall, the dynamical friction experienced by the MCs and the disruption of the MC satellites by their hosts. The simulation suite samples over the uncertainties in the MC's proper motions, the masses of the MW and the Clouds themselves and allows for flexibility in the intrinsic volume density distribution of the MC satellites. As a result, we can accurately reproduce the DES satellites' observed positions and kinematics. Assuming that Milky Way (MW) dwarfs follow the distribution of subhaloes in $Λ$CDM, we further demonstrate that, of 14 observed satellites, the MW halo contributes fewer than 4 (8) of these with 68% (95%) confidence and that 7 (12) DES dwarfs have probabilities greater than 0.7 (0.5) of belonging to the LMC. Marginalising over the entire suite, we constrain the total number of the Magellanic satellites at ~70, the mass of the LMC around $10^{11}M_\odot$ and show that the Clouds have likely endured only one Galactic pericentric passage so far. Finally, we give predictions for the line-of-sight velocities and the proper motions of the satellites discovered in the vicinity of the LMC.

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