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来自子弹矮星碰撞的无暗物质星系的轨迹

A trail of dark matter-free galaxies from a bullet dwarf collision

Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Michael A. Keim, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Shany Danieli, Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury, Roberto Abraham, Charlie Conroy, J. M. Diederik … 展开作者

Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Michael A. Keim, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Shany Danieli, Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury, Roberto Abraham, Charlie Conroy, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Daisuke Nagai, Aaron Romanowsky

摘要:

NGC 1052星系群中的超漫射星系DF 2和DF 4有几个不寻常的特性:它们都有很大的尺寸,大量的过亮和大型球状星团,以及非常低的速度色散,表明很少或没有暗物质。有人认为,这些星系是在富含气体的星系高速相遇后形成的,这些事件类似于产生子弹星系团的碰撞,但规模要小得多。气体在碰撞中与暗物质分离,随后的恒星形成导致一个或多个无暗物质星系的形成。在这里,我们表明,DF 2和DF 4现在的视线距离和径向速度与它们在大约80亿年前的一次子弹矮星碰撞后的联合形成是一致的。此外,我们发现DF 2和DF 4是7-11个大型低光度天体的明显线性子结构的一部分。我们认为这些都起源于同一事件,形成了一条超过2百万秒差距长,与视线成7 +- 2度角的无暗物质星系的尾迹。我们还初步确定了高度暗物质占主导地位的残余的两个祖星系,预计在领先的边缘的线索。

英文摘要:

The ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 in the NGC1052 group share several unusual properties: they both have large sizes, rich populations of overluminous and large globular clusters, and very low velocity dispersions indicating little or no dark matter. It has been suggested that these galaxies were formed in the aftermath of high velocity encounters of gas rich galaxies, events that resemble the collision that created the bullet cluster but on much smaller scales. The gas separates from the dark matter in the collision and subsequent star formation leads to the formation of one or more dark matter-free galaxies. Here we show that the present-day line-of-sight distances and radial velocities of DF2 and DF4 are consistent with their joint formation in the aftermath of a single bullet-dwarf collision, around eight billion years ago. Moreover, we find that DF2 and DF4 are part of an apparent linear substructure of 7-11 large, low-luminosity objects. We propose that these all originated in the same event, forming a trail of dark matter-free galaxies that is more than 2 Mpc long and angled 7 +- 2 degrees from the line of sight. We also tentatively identify the highly dark matter-dominated remnants of the two progenitor galaxies that are expected at the leading edges of the trail.

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