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当使用球状星团作为Milky Way质量星系总质量分布的示踪剂时,

What to expect when using globular clusters as tracers of the total mass distribution in Milky Way-mass galaxies

Meghan E. Hughes, Prashin Jethwa, Michael Hilker, Glenn van de Ven, Marie Martig, Joel L. Pfeffer, Nate Bastian, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Go… 展开作者

Meghan E. Hughes, Prashin Jethwa, Michael Hilker, Glenn van de Ven, Marie Martig, Joel L. Pfeffer, Nate Bastian, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Marta Reina-Campos, Robert A. Crain

摘要:

动力学模型使我们能够将一组示踪剂的运动与潜在的引力势联系起来,从而与总的(亮物质和暗物质)分布联系起来。它们对于理解星系中暗物质的质量和空间分布特别有用。球状星团(GC)是动力学模型中理想的示踪粒子群,因为它们很亮,而且可以在星系晕中很远的地方找到。我们的目标是测试如何以及Jeans-Anisotropic-MGE(JAM)模型使用GC(位置和视线速度)作为示踪剂可以约束DM晕的质量和径向分布。为此,我们使用E-MOSAICS套件的25放大模拟L* 星系。我们发现,DM晕属性是合理的,以及恢复的JAM模型。然而,在我们恢复DM的质量和径向分布以及星系中GC的数量之间存在很强的相关性:随着GC的减少,约束会呈指数级恶化,并且至少需要150个GC才能保证JAM模型表现良好。我们发现,虽然数据质量(径向速度的不确定性)可能是重要的,GC的数量是测量的准确性和精度方面的主导因素。这项工作显示出有前途的结果,这些模型被用于河外星系的样本超过150 GC。

英文摘要:

Dynamical models allow us to connect the motion of a set of tracers to the underlying gravitational potential, and thus to the total (luminous and dark) matter distribution. They are particularly useful for understanding the mass and spatial distribution of dark matter (DM) in a galaxy. Globular clusters (GCs) are an ideal tracer population in dynamical models, since they are bright and can be found far out into the halo of galaxies. We aim to test how well Jeans-Anisotropic-MGE (JAM) models using GCs (positions and line-of-sight velocities) as tracers can constrain the mass and radial distribution of DM halos. For this, we use the E-MOSAICS suite of 25 zoom-in simulations of L* galaxies. We find that the DM halo properties are reasonably well recovered by the JAM models. There is, however, a strong correlation between how well we recover the mass and the radial distribution of the DM and the number of GCs in the galaxy: the constraints get exponentially worse with fewer GCs, and at least 150 GCs are needed in order to guarantee that the JAM model will perform well. We find that while the data quality (uncertainty on the radial velocities) can be important, the number of GCs is the dominant factor in terms of the accuracy and precision of the measurements. This work shows promising results for these models to be used in extragalactic systems with a sample of more than 150 GCs.

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