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模拟柱可能比观察到的短,但不慢:TNG50与MaNGA

Simulated Bars May Be Shorter But Are Not Slower Than Observed: TNG50 vs. MaNGA

Neige Frankel, Annalisa Pillepich, Hans-Walter Rix, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Jason Sanders, Jo Bovy, Juna Kollmeier, Norm Murray, Ted Mackereth

摘要:

星系棒是盘星系中重要的动力学结构,其大小、形成时间、强度和形成速度影响着宿主星系的动力学演化。然而,它们在宇宙学背景下的形成和演化并没有得到很好的理解,因为宇宙学模拟研究受到模拟体积和分辨率之间的经典权衡的限制。在这里,我们分析酒吧盘星系的宇宙学磁流体动力学模拟TNG 50和定量比较的酒吧大小和图案速度的分布,从MANGA观测$z=0$。TNG 50星系被选择来匹配观测星系的恒星质量和尺寸分布,以解释观测选择效应。我们发现,TNG 50的高分辨率产生的条形图具有广泛的模式速度(包括$\geq 40~\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$\,$\mathrm{kpc}^{-1}$)和$\sim36~\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{kpc}$的平均值与$6\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$\,$\mathrm{kpc}^{-1}$内的观察一致,与以前的低分辨率宇宙学模拟产生的条形图太慢。然而,我们发现,在TNG 50的酒吧平均$\sim 35\%$短于观察到的,虽然这种差异可能部分反映了剩余的不一致的模拟数据比较。这导致TNG 50中较高的$\mathcal{R} = R_\mathrm{corot}/R_\mathrm{bar}$值,但表明模拟柱"太短"而不是"太慢"。在对同一模拟的低分辨率运行(具有相同的物理模型)重复分析后,我们定性地再现了以前研究中获得的结果:这意味着,随着物理模型的变化,数值分辨率效应可以解释以前发现的模拟酒吧的“缓慢”。

英文摘要:

Galactic bars are prominent dynamical structures within disk galaxies whose size, formation time, strength, and pattern speed influence the dynamical evolution of their hosts galaxies. Yet, their formation and evolution in a cosmological context is not well understood, as cosmological simulation studies have been limited by the classic trade off between simulation volume and resolution. Here we analyze barred disk galaxies in the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 and quantitatively compare the distributions of bar size and pattern speed to those from MaNGA observations at $z=0$. TNG50 galaxies are selected to match the stellar mass and size distributions of observed galaxies, to account for observational selection effects. We find that the high-resolution of TNG50 yields bars with a wide range of pattern speeds (including those with $\geq 40~\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$\,$\mathrm{kpc}^{-1}$) and a mean value of $\sim36~\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ consistent with observations within $6\,\mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$\,$\mathrm{kpc}^{-1}$, in contrast with previous lower-resolution cosmological simulations that produced bars that were too slow. We find, however, that bars in TNG50 are on average $\sim 35\%$ shorter than observed, although this discrepancy may partly reflect remaining inconsistencies in the simulation-data comparison. This leads to higher values of $\mathcal{R} = R_\mathrm{corot}/R_\mathrm{bar}$ in TNG50, but points to simulated bars being `too short' rather than `too slow'. After repeating the analysis on the lower-resolution run of the same simulation (with the same physical model), we qualitatively reproduce the results obtained in previous studies: this implies that, along with physical model variations, numerical resolution effects may explain the previously found `slowness' of simulated bars.

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