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FIRE-2外围矮恒星的原地起源

The In-situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2

Erin Kado-Fong, Robyn E. Sanderson, Jenny E. Greene, Emily C. Cunningham, Coral Wheeler, T. K. Chan, Kareem El-Badry, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Michael … 展开作者

Erin Kado-Fong, Robyn E. Sanderson, Jenny E. Greene, Emily C. Cunningham, Coral Wheeler, T. K. Chan, Kareem El-Badry, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Song Huang, Eliot Quataert, Tjitske Starkenburg

摘要:

在观测到的宇宙中,大质量矮星系($10^{8.5}<M_\star/M_\odot<10^{9.6}$)周围普遍存在着扩展的、古老的、圆形的恒星晕。然而,这些矮星不太可能经历足够数量的小合并,形成主要由吸积恒星组成的恒星晕。在这里,我们表明,消防2(反馈在现实环境中)宇宙放大模拟能够产生矮星系与现实的结构,包括厚盘和圆形恒星晕。至关重要的是,这些恒星晕是在原地形成的,主要是通过盘星的向外迁移。然而,在FIRE-2中也存在着大量的“非盘状”矮星,它们缺乏明确的盘/晕,与观测到的矮星种群不相似。这些非盘状矮星往往要么更缺乏气体,要么比盘状矮星有更爆发的近期恒星形成历史,这表明恒星形成的反馈可能阻止了盘状矮星的形成。这两类矮星都强调了星系内在形状的力量--这是对星系恒星含量分布的直接量化--来询问模拟星系中的反馈实现。

英文摘要:

Extended, old, and round stellar halos appear to be ubiquitous around high-mass dwarf galaxies ($10^{8.5}<M_\star/M_\odot<10^{9.6}$) in the observed universe. However, it is unlikely that these dwarfs have undergone a sufficient number of minor mergers to form stellar halos that are composed of predominantly accreted stars. Here, we demonstrate that FIRE-2 (Feedback in Realistic Environments) cosmological zoom-in simulations are capable of producing dwarf galaxies with realistic structure, including both a thick disk and round stellar halo. Crucially, these stellar halos are formed in-situ, largely via the outward migration of disk stars. However, there also exists a large population of "non-disky" dwarfs in FIRE-2 that lack a well-defined disk/halo and do not resemble the observed dwarf population. These non-disky dwarfs tend to be either more gas poor or to have burstier recent star formation histories than the disky dwarfs, suggesting that star formation feedback may be preventing disk formation. Both classes of dwarfs underscore the power of a galaxy's intrinsic shape -- which is a direct quantification of the distribution of the galaxy's stellar content -- to interrogate the feedback implementation in simulated galaxies.

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