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EAGLE模拟中星系中HI的环境依赖性

The environmental dependence of HI in galaxies in the EAGLE simulations

Antonino Marasco, Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye, Yannick M. Bahé, Thijs van der Hulst, Tom Theuns, Richard G. Bower

摘要:

我们使用EAGLE宇宙流体动力学模拟套件来研究当今星系的HI含量如何取决于它们的环境。我们发现,鹰再现观察到的HI质量环境的趋势非常好,而半解析模型通常高估了在密集的环境中的平均HI质量。对于恒星质量Mstar>10^9 Msun的卫星,环境过程主要起着HI含量的开关作用。在一个固定的Mstar,HI耗尽的卫星的分数增加主机晕质量M200在响应更强的环境效应,而在一个固定的M200,它随着增加卫星Mstar的气体被更深的引力势所限制而减少。HI耗尽的卫星主要但不完全位于其宿主晕的维里半径r200内。我们调查的起源,这些趋势集中在三个环境机制:冲压压力剥离组内介质,潮汐剥离的主机晕,和卫星-卫星的遭遇。通过追溯HI耗尽卫星的演变,我们发现HI去除的最常见原因是卫星相遇。HI去除的时间尺度通常小于0.5 Gyr。潮汐剥离发生在M200<10^{14} Msun的晕中,在r200的一半内,而其他过程也发生在更大质量的晕中,通常在r200内。相反,我们发现,冲压压力剥离是最常见的机制,在红移z=0的星系的HI形态的干扰。这意味着,HI去除由于卫星-卫星相互作用发生在较短的时间尺度比其他过程。

英文摘要:

We use the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study how the HI content of present-day galaxies depends on their environment. We show that EAGLE reproduces observed HI mass-environment trends very well, while semi-analytic models typically overpredict the average HI masses in dense environments. The environmental processes act primarily as an on/off switch for the HI content of satellites with stellar mass Mstar>10^9 Msun. At a fixed Mstar, the fraction of HI-depleted satellites increases with increasing host halo mass M200 in response to stronger environmental effects, while at a fixed M200 it decreases with increasing satellite Mstar as the gas is confined by deeper gravitational potentials. HI-depleted satellites reside mostly, but not exclusively, within the virial radius r200 of their host halo. We investigate the origin of these trends by focussing on three environmental mechanisms: ram pressure stripping by the intra-group medium, tidal stripping by the host halo, and satellite-satellite encounters. By tracking back in time the evolution of the HI-depleted satellites, we find that the most common cause of HI removal is satellite encounters. The timescale for HI removal is typically less than 0.5 Gyr. Tidal stripping occurs in halos of M200<10^{14} Msun within half r200, while the other processes act also in more massive halos, generally within r200. Conversely, we find that ram pressure stripping is the most common mechanism that disturbs the HI morphology of galaxies at redshift z=0. This implies that HI removal due to satellite-satellite interactions occurs on shorter timescales than the other processes.

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