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用恒星流模拟宇宙学暗物质晕的引力势

Modeling the gravitational potential of a cosmological dark matter halo with stellar streams

Robyn E. Sanderson, Johanna Hartke, Amina Helmi

摘要:

恒星流是由卫星和星团在围绕主星系运行时的潮汐破裂产生的,可以非常灵敏地探测主星系的引力势。我们选择并研究在水瓶座宇宙学模拟套件的Milky-Way状暗物质晕中形成的狭窄恒星流,以确定这些恒星流是否可用于约束晕引力势的当今特征参数。我们发现,轨道集成在静态球形和三轴NFW潜力都再现的位置和运动学的各种流相当不错。为了进一步量化这一点,我们通过最大化流星在其行动空间中的聚类量来确定最佳拟合的潜在参数。我们表明,使用我们的一组宝瓶座流,我们恢复的质量分布是一致的球形平均暗物质配置文件的主机晕,虽然我们忽略了三轴性和时间演化的适合。这给了我们信心,这种方法可以应用于盖亚任务将发现的许多流,以确定我们银河系的引力势。

英文摘要:

Stellar streams result from the tidal disruption of satellites and star clusters as they orbit a host galaxy, and can be very sensitive probes of the gravitational potential of the host system. We select and study narrow stellar streams formed in a Milky-Way-like dark matter halo of the Aquarius suite of cosmological simulations, to determine if these streams can be used to constrain the present day characteristic parameters of the halo's gravitational potential. We find that orbits integrated in static spherical and triaxial NFW potentials both reproduce the locations and kinematics of the various streams reasonably well. To quantify this further, we determine the best-fit potential parameters by maximizing the amount of clustering of the stream stars in the space of their actions. We show that using our set of Aquarius streams, we recover a mass profile that is consistent with the spherically-averaged dark matter profile of the host halo, although we ignored both triaxiality and time evolution in the fit. This gives us confidence that such methods can be applied to the many streams that will be discovered by the Gaia mission to determine the gravitational potential of our Galaxy.

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