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arXiv 1609.08653astro-ph.GA
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用大圆法预测Gaia探测潮汐流

Predictions for the detection of Tidal Streams with Gaia using Great Circle Methods

Cecilia Mateu, Andrew Cooper, Andreea S. Font, Luis Aguilar, Carlos Frenk, Shaun Cole, Wenting Wang, Ian G. McCarthy

摘要:

盖亚天体测量任务可能提供一个前所未有的机会,发现新的潮汐流在星系晕。为了测试这一点,我们应用nGC 3,一个大圆细胞计数方法,结合位置和自行数据来识别流,10个模拟盖亚目录的K巨星和RR天琴座恒星构建的银河系类似物的宇宙学模拟。我们分析了两组模拟,一个使用组合的$N$体和半解析方法,具有极高的分辨率,其他使用流体动力学方法,捕获重子的动态,包括形成一个原位晕。这十个可能的银河系合并历史的实现使我们能够评估在不同的银河系形成情景中潮汐流恢复的潜力。我们在这些模拟星表中包括了盖亚~选择函数和观测误差。我们发现,nGC 3方法在流宽度和投影过密度的空间中具有定义良好的检测边界,可以仅基于直接观测值来预测。我们预测在一个典型的银河系质量晕中,用Gaia+ nGC 3可以探测到4-13个矮星系流,探测效率估计为$>$ 80%.这些流的前身星系的质量范围是在经典矮星系,可能已经吸积早在红移$\sim3$。最后,我们分析了如何不同的可能的扩展盖亚任务将提高潮汐流的检测。

英文摘要:

The Gaia astrometric mission may offer an unprecedented opportunity to discover new tidal streams in the Galactic halo. To test this, we apply nGC3, a great-circle-cell count method that combines position and proper motion data to identify streams, to ten mock Gaia catalogues of K giants and RR Lyrae stars constructed from cosmological simulations of Milky Way analogues. We analyse two sets of simulations, one using a combination of $N$-body and semi-analytical methods which has extremely high resolution, the other using hydro-dynamical methods, which captures the dynamics of baryons, including the formation of an in situ halo. These ten realisations of plausible Galactic merger histories allow us to assess the potential for the recovery of tidal streams in different Milky Way formation scenarios. We include the Gaia~selection function and observational errors in these mock catalogues. We find that the nGC3 method has a well-defined detection boundary in the space of stream width and projected overdensity, that can be predicted based on direct observables alone. We predict that about 4-13 dwarf galaxy streams can be detected in a typical Milky Way-mass halo with Gaia+nGC3, with an estimated efficiency of $>$80\% inside the detection boundary. The progenitors of these streams are in the mass range of the classical dwarf galaxies and may have been accreted as early as redshift $\sim3$. Finally, we analyse how different possible extensions of the Gaia mission will improve the detection of tidal streams.

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