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气体场的大尺度几何与拓扑:AGN和恒星反馈的影响

Large-scale geometry and topology of gas fields: Effects of AGN and stellar feedback

Carlo Schimd, Katarina Kraljic, Romeel Davé, Christophe Pichon

AI总结:

本研究基于Simba模拟和Minkowski泛函,分析了z=5至0间气体场的几何与拓扑演化,发现恒星反馈和AGN过程在数十Mpc尺度上留下显著形态印记,为星系形成模型提供了大尺度约束。

摘要:

恒星和活动星系核(AGN)的反馈主要影响星系和环星系介质的形成与演化,并在更大尺度上留下某种印记。基于{\sc Simba}流体动力学模拟套件,并使用全套Minkowski泛函(MFs),本研究系统分析了在红移$z=5$到$z=0$之间,气体温度、压力、密度(总密度、HI和H$_2$)以及金属丰度场的全局几何与拓扑的时间演化。MFs表明,小尺度天体物理过程具有持续性,并在大到数十Mpc的尺度上显现,突显了在过去约12 Gyr中相关反馈机制在这些尺度上的特定形态特征。在定性方面,我们能够建立一个随所考虑场而变化的排序:恒星反馈主要决定压力和密度场的形态,AGN喷流是温度和金属丰度场形态的主要起源,而X射线加热和AGN风在塑造除金属丰度外所有气体场的几何与拓扑中发挥第二重要的作用。因此,表征宇宙网热力学和化学性质的场的几何与拓扑的宇宙学演化,为星系形成模型提供了互补的、更大尺度的约束。

英文摘要:

Feedback from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) primarily affects the formation and evolution of galaxies and the circumgalactic medium, leaving some kind of imprint on larger scales. Based on the {\sc Simba} hydrodynamical simulation suite and using the full set of Minkowski functionals (MFs), this study systematically analyses the time evolution of the global geometry and topology of the gas temperature, pressure, density (total, HI, and H$_2$), and the metallicity fields between redshifts $z=5$ and $z=0$. The MFs show that small-scale astrophysical processes are persistent and manifest on larger, up to tens of Mpc scales, highlighting the specific morphological signatures of the relevant feedback mechanisms on these scales in the last $\sim12$~Gyr. In qualitative terms, we were able establish a ranking that varies according to the field considered: stellar feedback mostly determines the morphology of the pressure and density fields and AGN jets are the primary origin of the morphology of the temperature and metallicity fields, while X-ray heating and AGN winds play the second most important role in shaping the geometry and topology of all the gaseous fields, except metallicity. Hence, the cosmic evolution of the geometry and topology of fields characterising the thermodynamical and chemical properties of the cosmic web offers complementary, larger scale constraints to galaxy formation models.

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