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arXiv 2005.08995astro-ph.GA
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观测暗物质吸积与星系生长的相关性:I.孤立的Milky Way -质量星系中最近的恒星形成活动

Observing Correlations Between Dark Matter Accretion and Galaxy Growth: I. Recent Star Formation Activity in Isolated Milky Way-Mass Galaxies

Christine O'Donnell, Peter Behroozi, Surhud More

摘要:

星系晕上的新鲜气体吸积和星系恒星形成之间的相关性对于理解星系形成至关重要。不同的理论模型已经预测了晕吸积率和星系恒星形成率之间不同的相关强度,从强正相关到很少或没有相关。在这里,我们提出了一种技术,观测测量孤立的银河系质量的星系与$z < 0.123$的相关强度。这项技术是基于暗物质吸积率和邻近星系的投影密度分布之间的相关性;这些相关性也是过去关于回溅半径的工作的基础。我们将我们的技术应用于斯隆数字巡天中观测到的星系以及UniverseMachine中的模拟星系,在那里我们可以测试任何所需的相关强度。我们发现,暗物质吸积和最近的恒星形成活动之间的正相关性被排除与$\gtrsim 85\%$的信心。我们的研究结果表明,恒星形成活动可能不与新鲜吸积孤立的银河系质量的星系在$z=0$和其他过程,如气体循环,占主导地位的星系进一步增长。

英文摘要:

The correlation between fresh gas accretion onto haloes and galaxy star formation is critical to understanding galaxy formation. Different theoretical models have predicted different correlation strengths between halo accretion rates and galaxy star formation rates, ranging from strong positive correlations to little or no correlation. Here, we present a technique to observationally measure this correlation strength for isolated Milky Way-mass galaxies with $z < 0.123$. This technique is based on correlations between dark matter accretion rates and the projected density profile of neighbouring galaxies; these correlations also underlie past work with splashback radii. We apply our technique to both observed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as simulated galaxies in the UniverseMachine where we can test any desired correlation strength. We find that positive correlations between dark matter accretion and recent star formation activity are ruled out with $\gtrsim 85\%$ confidence. Our results suggest that star formation activity may not be correlated with fresh accretion for isolated Milky Way-mass galaxies at $z=0$ and that other processes, such as gas recycling, dominate further galaxy growth.

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