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星系团中卫星星系向中心星系的吸积:合并质量比和轨道参数

Accretion of satellites onto central galaxies in clusters: merger mass ratios and orbital parameters

Carlo Nipoti, Carlo Giocoli, Giulia Despali

摘要:

利用Le SBARBINE数据集上的一个纯暗物质N体宇宙学模拟样本,研究了星系团中中心星系与卫星星系在红移范围$0<z<1$内合并的统计特性.使用球形过密度算法来识别暗物质晕,我们构建晕合并树的过密度$Δ_c$的不同值。虽然维里过密度定义允许我们探测星系团维里半径$r_{vir}$处卫星的吸积,但更高的过密度可以探测星系团中心区域的卫星合并,一直到$\approx 0.06 r_{vir}$,这可以被认为是卫星星系吸积到中央星系上的代理。我们发现,特征合并质量比增加的$Δ_c$值:超过$60\%$的质量吸积的中央星系,因为$z\approx 1$来自主要的合并。吸积到中央星系的卫星轨道往往比吸积在维里半径的晕轨道更切向和更有约束力。得到的合并质量比和轨道参数的分布是有用的模型的高质量端的星系标度关系的演变,而不诉诸流体动力学宇宙学模拟。

英文摘要:

We study the statistical properties of mergers between central and satellite galaxies in galaxy clusters in the redshift range $0<z<1$, using a sample of dark-matter only cosmological N-body simulations from Le SBARBINE dataset. Using a spherical overdensity algorithm to identify dark-matter haloes, we construct halo merger trees for different values of the over-density $Δ_c$. While the virial overdensity definition allows us to probe the accretion of satellites at the cluster virial radius $r_{vir}$, higher overdensities probe satellite mergers in the central region of the cluster, down to $\approx 0.06 r_{vir}$, which can be considered a proxy for the accretion of satellite galaxies onto central galaxies. We find that the characteristic merger mass ratio increases for increasing values of $Δ_c$: more than $60\%$ of the mass accreted by central galaxies since $z\approx 1$ comes from major mergers. The orbits of satellites accreting onto central galaxies tend to be more tangential and more bound than orbits of haloes accreting at the virial radius. The obtained distributions of merger mass ratios and orbital parameters are useful to model the evolution of the high-mass end of the galaxy scaling relations without resorting to hydrodynamic cosmological simulations.

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