We find that the minor axes of the ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in Abell 2634 tend to be aligned with the major axis of the central dominant galaxy, at a $\gtrsim 95\%$ confidence level. This alignment is produced by the bright UDGs with the absolute magnitudes $M_r<-15.3$ mag, and outer-region UDGs with $R>0.5R_{200}$. The alignment signal implies that these bright, outer-region UDGs are very likely to acquire their angular momenta from the vortices around the large-scale filament before they were accreted into A2634, and form their extended stellar bodies outside of the cluster; in this scenario, the orientations of their primordial angular momenta, which are roughly shown by their minor axes on the images, should tend to be parallel to the elongation of the large-scale filament. When these UDGs fell into the unrelaxed cluster A2634 along the filament, they could still preserve their primordial alignment signal before violent relaxation and encounters. These bright, outer-region UDGs in A2634 are very unlikely to be the descendants of the high-surface-brightness dwarf progenitors under tidal interactions with the central dominant galaxy in the cluster environment. Our results indicate that the primordial alignment could be a useful probe of the origin of UDGs in large-scale structures.
While large scale primordial non-Gaussianity is strongly constrained by present-day data, there are no such constraints at Mpc scales. Here we investigate the effect of significant small-scale primordial non-Gaussianity on structure formation and the galaxy formation process with collisionless simulations: specifically, we explore four different types of non-Gaussianities. All of these prescriptions lead to a distinct and potentially detectable feature in the matter power spectrum around the non-linear scale. The feature might have interesting consequences for the $S_8$ tension. We then show i…
Exploring the effects of diffuse ionised gas in two local analogues of high-redshift star-forming galaxies
Institute of Astrophysics, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Andrés Bello(安第斯贝尔纳多·乌尼维罗大学精确科学学院天体物理研究所);Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto(波尔图大学空间科学与天体物理研究所);Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Universidad de Guadalajara(瓜达拉哈拉大学天文与气象研究所);Centre for Space Research, North-West University(西北大学太空研究中心);National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS)(国家理论与计算科学研究所)
Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster. VI. A star-forming UDG in Hydra I: a rare UDG or a transition phase?
University of Naples “Federico II”(那不勒斯费德里科二世大学);Armagh Observatory and Planetarium(阿马赫天文台和天文馆);Gran Sasso Science Institute(格兰萨索科学研究所);Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, (FINCA), University of Turku(图尔库大学芬兰ESO天文中心);Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku(图尔库大学物理与天文学系图奥拉天文台);Turku Collegium for Science(图尔库科学学院)
The origin and fate of the most extended extragalactic neutral cloud known in the local Universe, the Leo ring, is still debated 38 years after its discovery. Its existence is alternatively attributed to leftover primordial gas with some low level of metal pollution versus enriched gas stripped during a galaxy-galaxy encounter. Taking advantage of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) operating at the VLT, we performed optical integral field spectroscopy of 3 HI clumps in the Leo ring where ultraviolet continuum emission has been found. We detected, for the first time, ionized hydrogen in t…
We present a new analysis of the diffuse soft $γ$-ray emission towards the inner Galaxy as measured by the SPectrometer aboard the INTEGRAL satellite (SPI) with 16 years of data taking. The analysis implements a spatial template fit of SPI data and an improved instrumental background model. We characterize the contribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) as dark matter (DM) candidates evaporating into $\mathcal{O}$(1) MeV photons by including, for the first time, the spatial distribution of their signal into the fitting procedure. No PBH signal is detected, and we set the strongest limit on PB…
Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster II. Stellar kinematics and dynamical masses
本研究利用 LEWIS 的 MUSE 积分场光谱测量 Hydra I 星系团 18 个 UDG 的恒星运动学与动力学质量,发现旋转与非旋转两类系统,并揭示其高暗物质占比及环境相关性较弱。
Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster IV. A study of the Globular Cluster population in four UDGs
INAF Osservatorio Astr. d’Abruzzo(意大利国家天体物理研究所阿布鲁佐天文台);European Southern Observatory(欧洲南方天文台);Gran Sasso Science Institute(格兰萨索科学研究所);INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte(意大利国家天体物理研究所卡波迪蒙特天文台);Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University(斯威本大学天体物理学与超级计算中心);Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, (FINCA), University of Turku(图尔库大学芬兰ESO天文学中心);Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku(图尔库大学物理与天文学系图奥拉天文台);Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine and Technology(图尔库科学技术学院)
Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra I cluster III. Untangling UDG 32 from the stripped filaments of NGC 3314A with multi-wavelength data