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用星系恒星质量函数检验星系形成模型

Testing galaxy formation models with galaxy stellar mass functions

Seunghwan Lim, Houjun Mo, Ting-Wen Lan, Brice Ménard

摘要:

我们比较预测的一些经验模型和数值模拟的星系形成的条件恒星质量函数(CSMF)的星系群中的不同的质量最近获得的Lan等人。测试如何以及不同的模型容纳的数据。观测数据显然倾向于这样一种模型,即在低质量晕中恒星的形成以特征红移$z_c\sim 2$改变行为。也有初步的证据表明,这种特征性的红移取决于环境,在最终演化成丰富星系团的区域变成$z_c\sim 4$。约束模型被用来理解星系如何在暗物质晕中形成和演化,并对星系人口的其他统计性质进行预测,如高$z$星系的恒星质量函数,暗物质晕中的恒星形成和恒星质量组装历史。我们的模型预测与其他经验模型的比较表明,不同的模型可以做出截然不同的预测,即使所有这些模型都被调整到与观测到的星系恒星质量函数相匹配。

英文摘要:

We compare predictions of a number of empirical models and numerical simulations of galaxy formation to the conditional stellar mass functions (CSMF)of galaxies in groups of different masses obtained recently by Lan et al. to test how well different models accommodate the data. The observational data clearly prefer a model in which star formation in low-mass halos changes behavior at a characteristic redshift $z_c\sim 2$. There is also tentative evidence that this characteristic redshift depends on environment, becoming $z_c\sim 4$ in regions that eventually evolve into rich clusters of galaxies. The constrained model is used to understand how galaxies form and evolve in dark matter halos, and to make predictions for other statistical properties of the galaxy population, such as the stellar mass functions of galaxies at high $z$, the star formation and stellar mass assembly histories in dark matter halos. A comparison of our model predictions with those of other empirical models shows that different models can make vastly different predictions, even though all of them are tuned to match the observed stellar mass functions of galaxies.

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