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郊区去哪儿了?恒星外晕作为超新星反馈的敏感探针

Where Did the Outskirts Go? Outer Stellar Haloes as a Sensitive Probe of Supernova Feedback

B. W. Keller

摘要:

最近Merritt等人(2020)对模拟和观测的银河系质量星系进行了比较,发现模拟和观测星系中恒星晕的外围($r>20\kpc$)之间存在显著的张力。利用蜻蜓望远镜的观测结果和来自Illustris-TNG 100项目的模拟星系,Merritt等人2020发现模拟星系中恒星晕的外围具有比观测星系更高的表面密度$1-2$ dex。在本文中,我们比较了两套15个模拟银河系的星系,每个从相同的初始条件下绘制,模拟相同的流体动力学代码,但有两个不同的模型从超新星的反馈。我们发现,MUGS模拟,使用一个较老的“延迟冷却”模型的反馈,也产生了太多的恒星质量在外围的光环,与中位数的表面密度远高于观测限制。MUGS 2模拟,而不是使用一个新的,物理动机的"超级气泡“模型的恒星反馈,有$1-2$指数较低的外部恒星晕质量和表面密度。MUGS 2模拟一般匹配的中位数表面密度分布,以及在恒星晕表面密度分布的分散观察到的恒星晕。我们的结论是,在宇宙学模拟中没有“失踪的外围”的问题,只要超新星反馈的建模方式,使其能够有效地调节恒星形成的低质量的恒星晕外围祖环境。

英文摘要:

A recent comparison by Merritt et al. 2020 of simulated and observed Milky Way-mass galaxies has identified a significant tension between the outskirts ($r>20\kpc$) of the stellar halos in simulated and observed galaxies. Using observations from the Dragonfly telescope and simulated galaxies from the Illustris-TNG100 project, Merritt et al. 2020 finds that the outskirts of stellar halos in simulated galaxies have surface densities $1-2$ dex higher than observed galaxies. In this paper, we compare two suites of 15 simulated Milky Way-like galaxies, each drawn from the same initial conditions, simulated with the same hydrodynamical code, but with two different models for feedback from supernovae. We find that the MUGS simulations, which use an older ``delayed-cooling'' model for feedback, also produce too much stellar mass in the outskirts of the halo, with median surface densities well above observational constraints. The MUGS2 simulations, which instead use a new, physically-motivated ``superbubble'' model for stellar feedback, have $1-2$ dex lower outer stellar halo masses and surface densities. The MUGS2 simulations generally match both the median surface density profile as well as the scatter in stellar halo surface density profiles seen in observed stellar halos. We conclude that there is no ``missing outskirts'' problem in cosmological simulations, provided that supernova feedback is modelled in a way that allows it to efficiently regulate star formation in the low-mass progenitor environments of stellar halo outskirts.

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