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PAndAS视角下的仙女座卫星系统。IV 全局性质

The PAndAS View of the Andromeda Satellite System. IV Global properties

Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Nicolas F. Martin, Zhen Yuan, Alessandro Savino, Daniel R. Weisz, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Stacy Y. Kim, Geraint F. L… 展开作者

Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Nicolas F. Martin, Zhen Yuan, Alessandro Savino, Daniel R. Weisz, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Stacy Y. Kim, Geraint F. Lewis, Alan W. McConnachie, Guillaume F. Thomas

AI总结:

本文利用PAndAS矮星系样本和正演建模推断M31卫星系统的光度函数、空间分布及尺寸—光度关系,估计其卫星总数并证明面向银河系一侧的各向异性是内在特征。

摘要:

我们构建了一个统计框架,用以根据泛仙女座考古巡天(Pan-Andromeda Archaelogical Survey,PAndAS)中各矮星系的性质以及此前测定的巡天完备度,推断仙女座星系(M31)卫星系统的全局性质。利用正演建模,我们推断了该卫星系统的光度函数斜率、空间密度分布斜率,以及矮星系遵循的尺寸—光度关系。我们发现光度函数斜率为β=-1.5±0.1。结合空间密度轮廓,这意味着在考虑巡天不完备性后,M31拥有92_{-26}^{+19}个满足M_V<-5.5、且与M31的天空投影距离在30至300 kpc之间的矮星系。我们得出结论:仙女座周围仍有许多暗弱或遥远的矮星系有待发现,尤其是在PAndAS覆盖范围之外。最后,我们使用模型检验面向银河系的半球内卫星数量较多是否仅能由矮星系搜索的探测极限解释。我们以>99.9%的置信度排除了这一可能,并得出结论:这种各向异性是M31卫星系统的内在特征。我们在此提出的统计框架是一个强有力的工具,可稳健约束卫星系统的性质并在不同宿主之间进行比较,尤其是考虑到Euclid或Rubin大型测光巡天即将开始,预计将在本邻域内发现大量矮星系。

英文摘要:

We build a statistical framework to infer the global properties of the satellite system of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) from the properties of individual dwarf galaxies located in the Pan-Andromeda Archaelogical Survey (PAndAS) and the previously determined completeness of the survey. Using forward modeling, we infer the slope of the luminosity function of the satellite system, the slope of its spatial density distribution, and the size-luminosity relation followed by the dwarf galaxies. We find that the slope of the luminosity function is $β=-1.5\pm0.1$. Combined with the spatial density profile, it implies that, when accounting for survey incompleteness, M31 hosts $92_{-26}^{+19}$ dwarf galaxies with $M_\textrm{V}<-5.5$ and a sky-projected distance from M31 between 30 and 300kpc. We conclude that many faint or distant dwarf galaxies remain to be discovered around Andromeda, especially outside the PAndAS footprint. Finally, we use our model to test if the higher number of satellites situated in the hemisphere facing the Milky Way could be explained simply by the detection limits of dwarf galaxy searches. We rule this out at $>99.9\%$ confidence and conclude that this anisotropy is an intrinsic feature of the M31 satellite system. The statistical framework we present here is a powerful tool to robustly constrain the properties of a satellite system and compare those across hosts, especially considering the upcoming start of the Euclid or Rubin large photometric surveys that are expected to uncover a large number of dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume.

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