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孤立中心星系卫星星系的不平衡分布

The lopsided distribution of satellites of isolated central galaxies

Peng Wang, Noam I. Libeskind, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Xi Kang, Wei Wang, Quan Guo, Elmo Tempel

摘要:

超新星并不是随机地分布在它们的中央星系周围,而是呈现出极平面结构。本文在流体动力学宇宙学模拟中研究了孤立星系周围卫星星系分布的轴不对称性。通过研究卫星星系在孤立中心星系周围的投影位置在二维平面上的角分布,我们发现了一个统计上显著的不平衡信号。信号取决于星系的质量、颜色和大尺度环境。居住在低质量蓝色宿主或远离宿主的卫星显示出最不平衡的信号。具有大质量邻居的星系系统表现出更强的不平衡性。这种卫星轴不对称信号也随着宇宙的演化而减少。我们的研究结果与最近的观测结果一致,为研究星系演化,特别是卫星吸积、内部演化以及与宇宙大尺度结构的相互作用提供了有益的视角。

英文摘要:

Satellites are not randomly distributed around their central galaxies but show polar and planar structures. In this paper, we investigate the axis-asymmetry or lopsidedness of satellite galaxy distributions around isolated galaxies in a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation. We find a statistically significant lopsided signal by studying the angular distribution of the satellite galaxies' projected positions around isolated central galaxies in a two-dimensional plane. The signal is dependent on galaxy mass, color and large-scale environment. Satellites that inhabit low-mass blue hosts, or located further from the hosts show the most lopsided signal. Galaxy systems with massive neighbors exhibit stronger lopsidedness. This satellite axis-asymmetry signal also decreases as the universe evolves. Our findings are in agreement with recent observational results, and they provide a useful perspective for studying galaxy evolution, especially on the satellite accretion, internal evolution and interaction with the cosmic large-scale structure.

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