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用简单参数势与矮卫星后向积分的无关联性

Uncertainties associated with the backward integration of dwarf satellites using simple parametric potentials

Richard D'Souza, Eric F. Bell

摘要:

为了对银河系矮星系的轨道进行后向积分,近年来已经投入了大量的努力来约束它们的初始相空间坐标。然而,同样重要的是对矮星系随时间推移所经历的潜力的假设,特别是考虑到MW目前正在吸积大麦云(LMC)的事实。在这项工作中,使用一个暗物质,只有放大模拟,我们测试是否使用共同的参数形式的潜力是足够的成功地向后整合的subhaloes从他们现在的位置的轨道。我们参数化恢复的轨道,并将它们与那些从模拟。我们发现,简单的对称参数形式的潜在未能捕捉的复杂性和不均匀性的真实潜在的经历的subhaloes。更具体地说,模拟最近的大规模吸积像的LMC作为两个球形参数的潜力的总和导致恢复的轨道参数的重大错误。这些误差可与下列原因造成的误差相媲美:a)MW维里质量的不确定性为30%; b)未对最近吸积的大质量卫星的潜力进行建模。我们的工作表明,i)一些MW矮星的恢复轨道参数的不确定性可能被低估,ii)研究人员应该考虑他们选择的集成技术和假设的潜力对宇宙学放大模拟的MW,其中包括最近吸积的LMC固有的不确定性。

英文摘要:

In order to backward integrate the orbits of Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies, much effort has been invested in recent years to constrain their initial phase-space coordinates. Yet equally important are the assumptions on the potential that the dwarf galaxies experience over time, especially given the fact that the MW is currently accreting the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In this work, using a dark matter-only zoom-in simulation, we test whether the use of common parametric forms of the potential is adequate to successfully backward integrate the orbits of the subhaloes from their present-day positions. We parametrise the recovered orbits and compare them with those from the simulations. We find that simple symmetric parametric forms of the potential fail to capture the complexities and the inhomogeneities of the true potential experienced by the subhaloes. More specifically, modelling a recent massive accretion like that of the LMC as a sum of two spherical parametric potentials leads to substantial errors in the recovered parameters of the orbits. These errors rival those caused due to a) a 30\% uncertainty in the virial mass of the MW and b) not modelling the potential of the recently accreted massive satellite. Our work suggests that i) the uncertainties in the parameters of the recovered orbits of some MW dwarfs may be under-estimated and that ii) researchers should characterise the uncertainties inherent to their choice of integration techniques and assumptions of the potential against cosmological zoom-in simulations of the MW, which include a recently-accreted LMC.

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