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矮星系中恒星形成的再认识

Reignition of Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

Anna C. Wright, Alyson M. Brooks, Daniel R. Weisz, Charlotte R. Christensen

摘要:

本星系群拥有许多恒星形成的矮星系,这些星系显示出很少或没有恒星形成的证据。我们使用一套宇宙学模拟来研究恒星形成是如何在这样的星系中被重新点燃的。我们专注于孤立的星系在$z=0$与晕质量之间的9.2 $\times$ 10 $^8$ M $_\odot$和8.4 $\times$ 10 $^9$ M $_\odot$,恒星形成通常关闭再电离或超新星反馈。由于与星系际介质中气体流的相互作用,这些模拟星系中近20%后来重新启动了恒星形成,这表明这种机制在该质量范围内相对常见,并且$z=0$上的许多孤立矮星可能在其整个历史中并没有被孤立。这种气体的来源不一定是宇宙细丝。相反,矮星系与附近星系合并或从邻近星系延伸出来的气体相互作用。虽然这种性质的高冲压压力相互作用会导致剥离,但重新点燃恒星形成的遭遇是低密度和/或低速度,因此冲压压力低,导致我们的矮星晕中的热气体压缩。热晕中的气体质量可能很大--至少比HI中的质量大一个数量级。因此,我们发现,经历了再点火的矮星往往是更多的HI-丰富,并有一个更高的M $_{HI}$ /M $_{*}$比在$z=0$比连续的恒星形成的星系。利用这一事实,我们确定星系在本地体积可能有“gappy”恒星形成的历史,并可以研究哈勃太空望远镜或詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜。

英文摘要:

The Local Group hosts a number of star-forming dwarf galaxies that show evidence of periods of little to no star formation. We use a suite of cosmological simulations to study how star formation is reignited in such galaxies. We focus on isolated galaxies at $z=0$ with halo masses between 9.2$\times$10$^8$ M$_\odot$ and 8.4$\times$10$^9$ M$_\odot$, where star formation is typically shut off by reionization or by supernova feedback. Nearly 20% of these simulated galaxies later restart star formation, due to interactions with streams of gas in the intergalactic medium, indicating that this mechanism is relatively common in this mass range and that many isolated dwarfs at $z=0$ may not have been isolated throughout their histories. The source of this gas is not necessarily cosmic filaments. Rather, the dwarfs interact with gas thrown off by nearby galaxy mergers or streams extending from neighboring galaxies. While high ram pressure interactions of this nature lead to stripping, the encounters that reignite star formation are low density and/or low velocity and thus low ram pressure, resulting in compression of the hot gas in the halos of our dwarfs. The gas mass bound up in hot halos can be substantial -- at least an order of magnitude greater than the mass contained in HI. Consequently, we find that dwarfs that have experienced reignition tend to be more HI-rich and have a higher M$_{HI}$/M$_{*}$ ratio at $z=0$ than galaxies with continuous star formation. Using this fact, we identify galaxies in the Local Volume that might have "gappy" star formation histories, and can be studied by the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope.

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