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在基本物理学的星系试验中校准星系形成效应

Calibrating galaxy formation effects in galactic tests of fundamental physics

Deaglan J. Bartlett, Harry Desmond, Pedro G. Ferreira

摘要:

银河尺度的测试已被证明是强有力的工具,在约束基础物理在以前未开发的参数空间的区域。他们所探索的天体物理机制本身就很复杂,而且用来建立这些约束的推理方法应该对重子效应具有鲁棒性。以前的分析假设了简单的经验模型,没有详细的校准或理由的天体物理噪声。我们概述了一个框架,通过构建和测试更先进的重子模型,使用宇宙流体动力学模拟评估这种方法的可靠性。作为一个案例研究,我们使用Horizon-AGN模拟来研究恒星盘的翘曲和星系内气体和恒星之间的偏移,这是屏蔽第五力的有力探针。我们表明,“U”形弯曲的星系的程度是很好的模拟高斯随机噪声,但气体星偏移的幅度与主机晕的维里半径。通过结合这种相关性,我们证实了最近的结果排除了天体物理相关的胡-Sawicki $f(R)$重力,并确定了一个$\sim 30\%$系统的不确定性,由于重子物理。这样的分析必须逐案进行,以便将来对基本物理学进行星系测试。

英文摘要:

Galactic scale tests have proven to be powerful tools in constraining fundamental physics in previously under-explored regions of parameter space. The astrophysical regime which they probe is inherently complicated, and the inference methods used to make these constraints should be robust to baryonic effects. Previous analyses have assumed simple empirical models for astrophysical noise without detailed calibration or justification. We outline a framework for assessing the reliability of such methods by constructing and testing more advanced baryonic models using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. As a case study, we use the Horizon-AGN simulation to investigate warping of stellar disks and offsets between gas and stars within galaxies, which are powerful probes of screened fifth forces. We show that the degree of `U'-shaped warping of galaxies is well modelled by Gaussian random noise, but that the magnitude of the gas-star offset is correlated with the virial radius of the host halo. By incorporating this correlation we confirm recent results ruling out astrophysically relevant Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity, and identify a $\sim 30\%$ systematic uncertainty due to baryonic physics. Such an analysis must be performed case-by-case for future galactic tests of fundamental physics.

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