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三百计划:星系团合并及其对最亮星系团恒星成分的影响

The Three Hundred project: galaxy cluster mergers and their impact on the stellar component of brightest cluster galaxies

Ana Contreras-Santos, Alexander Knebe, Frazer Pearce, Roan Haggar, Meghan Gray, Weiguang Cui, Gustavo Yepes, Marco De Petris, Federico De Luca, Chris Power, Rob… 展开作者

Ana Contreras-Santos, Alexander Knebe, Frazer Pearce, Roan Haggar, Meghan Gray, Weiguang Cui, Gustavo Yepes, Marco De Petris, Federico De Luca, Chris Power, Robert Mostoghiu, Sebastián E. Nuza, Matthias Hoeft

摘要:

利用"三百计划"的324个星系团晕流体动力学模拟数据集,研究了星系团合并及其对最亮星系团(BCG)颜色和光度变化的影响。我们跟踪每个晕在z = 0的主要祖先,并根据其质量吸积历史搜索合并情况,定义合并为晕质量的快速增加。基于集群的动力学状态的演变,我们定义了一个合并前和合并后的阶段。我们创建了一个所有这些事件的列表,并统计研究它们的质量比和时间尺度,前者验证了所有实例实际上都是重大合并。通过与没有合并的控制样本进行比较,我们研究了合并对BCG的恒星成分的影响。通过对BCG恒星粒子的质量、年龄和金属丰度的分析,我们发现BCGs的恒星含量在合并过程中显著增长,尽管主要的增长机制是老恒星的吸积,但合并过程中甚至会出现恒星形成的爆发。在我们的模拟中,合并中的BCGs形成的恒星比正常生长的恒星多70%左右,尽管这取决于定义BCGs时考虑的半径。关于可观测的性质,我们看到在合并过程中SDSS-u光度增加了20%,与对照样本相比,星系g-r颜色的增加稍慢。

英文摘要:

Using the data set of The Three Hundred project, i.e. a suite of 324 hydrodynamical resimulations of cluster-sized haloes, we study galaxy cluster mergers and their effect on colour and luminosity changes of their brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). We track the main progenitor of each halo at z=0 and search for merger situations based on its mass accretion history, defining mergers as very rapid increases in the halo mass. Based upon the evolution of the dynamical state of the cluster we define a pre- and post-merger phase. We create a list of all these events and statistically study their mass ratio and timescales, with the former verifying that all instances are in fact major mergers. By comparing to a control sample of clusters without mergers, we study the effect mergers have on the stellar component of the BCG. Analysing the mass, age and metallicity of the BCG stellar particles, we find that the stellar content of BCGs grows significantly during mergers and, even though the main growth mechanism is the accretion of older stars, there is even a burst in star formation induced by the merger. In our simulations, BCGs in mergers form in median around 70 per cent more stars than those normally growing, although this depends on the radius considered for defining the BCG. Regarding observable properties, we see an increase in SDSS-u luminosity of 20 per cent during mergers, accompanied by a slightly slower increase of the galaxy g-r colour as compared to the control sample.

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