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仙女座II运动学的主要合并起源

The major merger origin of the Andromeda II kinematics

Ivana Ebrová, Ewa L. Łokas, Sylvain Fouquet, Andrés del Pino

摘要:

据报道,有两个本星系群矮星系存在长轴自转(即绕长轴自转):仙女座II,M31的矮球状卫星,和凤凰,一个过渡型矮星系。长轴自转可能是矮星系之间过去主要合并的一个特殊指标。我们发现,这种类型的旋转不能在潮汐搅拌的情况下,其中的卫星被改造从盘状到球状的主星系的潮汐力。然而,我们成功地再现了观测到的仙女座II运动学控制,自洽的模拟等质量的盘状矮星系之间的合并径向或接近径向轨道。在包括气体动力学,恒星形成和冲压压力剥离的模拟中,我们能够再现更多的仙女座II观测到的特性:不寻常的旋转,双峰恒星形成历史和两个恒星星族的空间分布,以及缺乏气体。我们支持这种情况下,证明合并起源的长轴旋转的宇宙学背景下,充分解决星系的大尺度宇宙流体动力学模拟的插图。

英文摘要:

Prolate rotation (i.e. rotation around the long axis) has been reported for two Local Group dwarf galaxies: Andromeda II, a dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, and Phoenix, a transition type dwarf galaxy. The prolate rotation may be an exceptional indicator of a past major merger between dwarf galaxies. We showed that this type of rotation cannot be obtained in the tidal stirring scenario, in which the satellite is transformed from disky to spheroidal by tidal forces of the host galaxy. However, we successfully reproduced the observed Andromeda II kinematics in controlled, self-consistent simulations of mergers between equal-mass disky dwarf galaxies on a radial or close-to-radial orbit. In simulations including gas dynamics, star formation and ram pressure stripping, we are able to reproduce more of the observed properties of Andromeda II: the unusual rotation, the bimodal star formation history and the spatial distribution of the two stellar populations, as well as the lack of gas. We support this scenario by demonstrating the merger origin of prolate rotation in the cosmological context for sufficiently resolved galaxies in the Illustris large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulation.

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