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根据卫星普查对LMC质量的限制

Limit on the LMC mass from a census of its satellites

Denis Erkal, Vasily A. Belokurov

摘要:

我们研究了超暗矮星系在银河系和大麦哲伦星系共同存在下的轨道,发现了6个可能与大麦哲伦星系吸积的矮星系(Car 2,Car 3,Hor 1,Hyi 1,Phe 2,Ret 2),以及SMC,这是矮星系群坍缩的有力证据。这个过程取决于大麦哲伦星云的引力,因此我们可以把大麦哲伦星云的质量下限设为$M_{\rm LMC} > 1.24\times10^{11} M_\odot$。通过将该技术应用于具有LMC类似物的银河系类星系的宇宙学放大模拟,我们发现虽然这个下限可能被高估,但它将在未来以较小的观测误差得到改善。我们将这种技术应用于缺乏径向速度的矮星系,发现Eri 3具有广泛的径向速度范围,它有一个显着的机会($> 0.4$)被绑定到云。我们研究了非麦哲伦经典卫星,发现天炉座有一个相当大的可能性是一个大麦哲伦卫星,如果大麦哲伦是足够大的质量。此外,我们还探讨了银河系卫星的轨道如何在LMC的存在下发生变化,并发现了几个物体的显着变化。最后,我们发现,在一个固定的光度,LMC卫星略小于银河系卫星,可能是由于它们经历了不同的潮汐环境。

英文摘要:

We study the orbits of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the combined presence of the Milky Way and LMC and we find 6 dwarfs which were likely accreted with the LMC (Car 2, Car 3, Hor 1, Hyi 1, Phe 2, Ret 2), in addition to the SMC, representing strong evidence of dwarf galaxy group infall. This procedure depends on the gravitational pull of the LMC, thus allowing us to place a lower bound on the Cloud's mass of $M_{\rm LMC} > 1.24\times10^{11} M_\odot$. This mass estimate is validated by applying the technique to a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy with an LMC analogue where we find that while this lower bound may be overestimated, it will improve in the future with smaller observational errors. We apply this technique to dwarf galaxies lacking radial velocities and find that Eri 3 has a broad range of radial velocities for which it has a significant chance ($> 0.4$) of having being bound to the Cloud. We study the non-Magellanic classical satellites and find that Fornax has an appreciable probability of being an LMC satellite if the LMC is sufficiently massive. In addition, we explore how the orbits of the Milky Way satellites change in the presence of the LMC and find a significant change for several objects. Finally, we find that the LMC satellites are slightly smaller than the Milky Way satellites at a fixed luminosity, possibly due to the different tidal environments they have experienced.

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