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由Illustris的主要合并形成的盘状星系

Disc galaxies formed from major mergers in Illustris

Nicolas Peschken, Ewa L. Łokas, E. Athanassoula

摘要:

我们展示了如何湿主要合并可以创建盘星系在宇宙学的背景下,使用的Illustris模拟。我们选择了一个样本的38个盘星系经历了一个重大的合并在其历史上没有随后的重大合并,并研究它们如何转变成光盘合并后。与以前在这种合并的控制模拟中发现的一致,我们发现它们的圆盘是由圆盘区域合并后形成的年轻恒星逐渐建立的,而合并前出生的老恒星形成了一个椭圆形组件。聚焦于我们样本中的一个基准案例,我们展示了气体最初是如何在合并后分散在晕区的,但随后被吸积到圆盘上形成恒星,并建立圆盘组件。然后,我们选择了一个主要合并创建椭圆星系的样本,以表明这些情况主要对应于干合并,缺乏恒星形成阻止了残余星系中圆盘的形成。因此,合并后残留星系中的气体量对于确定一次大合并的最终结果至关重要。

英文摘要:

We show how wet major mergers can create disc galaxies in a cosmological context, using the Illustris simulation. We select a sample of 38 disc galaxies having experienced a major merger in their history with no subsequent significant minor merger, and study how they transform into discs after the merger. In agreement with what was previously found in controlled simulations of such mergers, we find that their disc is built gradually from young stars formed after the merger in the disc region, while the old stars born before the merger form an ellipsoidal component. Focusing on one fiducial case from our sample, we show how the gas was initially dispersed in the halo region right after the merger, but is then accreted onto a disc to form stars, and builds the disc component. We then select a sample of major mergers creating elliptical galaxies, to show that those cases correspond mainly to dry mergers, where the lack of star formation prevents the formation of a disc in the remnant galaxy. The amount of gas in the remnant galaxy after the merger is therefore essential to determine the final outcome of a major merger.

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