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作为引力实验的恒星流。射手座的例子

Stellar streams as gravitational experiments I. The case of Sagittarius

Guillaume F. Thomas, Benoit Famaey, Rodrigo Ibata, Fabian Lueghausen, Pavel Kroupa

摘要:

围绕其宿主星系运行的分裂矮星系的潮汐流提供了一种独特的方式来限制星系引力势的形状。这样的流可以用作星系尺度上的斜塔引力实验。作为银河系尺度上暗物质的替代方案,最有动机的引力修正是Milgromian动力学(MOND),我们在这里提出了有史以来第一个N体模拟的破坏人马座矮星系的动力学演化。使用一个现实的重子质量模型的银河系,我们试图再现当今的空间和运动学结构的人马座矮星和它的巨大的潮汐流,银河系周围的包装。由于原始结构的自由度很小,受到人马座结构的总光度和孤立矮星系的恒星质量-尺寸关系的限制,我们发现我们的模拟和观测之间的合理协议。如果我们把银河系周围的一个巨大的热气日冕包括在内,它在其卫星主平面的方向上是扁平的,那么在主臂中观察到的恒星速度就可以重现。这是第一次,潮汐溶解MOND已严格测试在这些质量和加速度尺度。

英文摘要:

Tidal streams of disrupting dwarf galaxies orbiting around their host galaxy offer a unique way to constrain the shape of galactic gravitational potentials. Such streams can be used as leaning tower gravitational experiments on galactic scales. The most well motivated modification of gravity proposed as an alternative to dark matter on galactic scales is Milgromian dynamics (MOND), and we present here the first ever N-body simulations of the dynamical evolution of the disrupting Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in this framework. Using a realistic baryonic mass model for the Milky Way, we attempt to reproduce the present-day spatial and kinematic structure of the Sagittarius dwarf and its immense tidal stream that wraps around the Milky Way. With very little freedom on the original structure of the progenitor, constrained by the total luminosity of the Sagittarius structure and by the observed stellar mass-size relation for isolated dwarf galaxies, we find reasonable agreement between our simulations and observations of this system. The observed stellar velocities in the leading arm can be reproduced if we include a massive hot gas corona around the Milky Way that is flattened in the direction of the principal plane of its satellites. This is the first time that tidal dissolution in MOND has been tested rigorously at these mass and acceleration scales.

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