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Horizon-AGN模拟:由AGN反馈促进的星系形态多样性

The Horizon-AGN simulation: morphological diversity of galaxies promoted by AGN feedback

Yohan Dubois, Sebastien Peirani, Christophe Pichon, Julien Devriendt, Raphael Gavazzi, Charlotte Welker, Marta Volonteri

摘要:

宇宙气体对星系的吸积和星系合并之间的相互作用驱动了观测到的星系形态多样性。通过比较最先进的流体动力学宇宙学模拟地平线-AGN和地平线-noAGN,我们明确地确定了活动星系核(AGN)在建立正确的星系形态的人口的大规模结束的关键作用。在活动星系核反馈的作用下,星系群的典型运动学和形态学性质以及星系晕质量关系与观测结果更加吻合。只有活动星系核的反馈才能让星系群和星系团中心的大质量星系变成椭圆星系,而没有活动星系核的反馈,这些星系就会变成圆盘。这是合并增强活动星系核活动,能够冻结的形态类型的合并后残留持久淬火其静止的恒星形成。因此,形态被证明是驱动不仅由质量,但也由宇宙吸积的性质:在恒定的星系质量,椭圆星系是星系,主要是通过合并组装,而光盘优先建立从原位恒星形成顺利宇宙气体进料。

英文摘要:

The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations Horizon-AGN and Horizon-noAGN, we unambiguously identify the critical role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in setting up the correct galaxy morphology for the massive end of the population. With AGN feedback, typical kinematic and morpho-metric properties of galaxy populations as well as the galaxy-halo mass relation are in much better agreement with observations. Only AGN feedback allows massive galaxies at the centre of groups and clusters to become ellipticals, while without AGN feedback those galaxies reform discs. It is the merger-enhanced AGN activity that is able to freeze the morphological type of the post-merger remnant by durably quenching its quiescent star formation. Hence morphology is shown to be driven not only by mass but also by the nature of cosmic accretion: at constant galaxy mass, ellipticals are galaxies that are mainly assembled through mergers, while discs are preferentially built from the in situ star formation fed by smooth cosmic gas infall.

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