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具有HI的暗星系预测:从受限的本地群模拟中如何寻找它们

HI-bearing dark galaxies predictions from constrained Local Group simulations: how many and where to find them

Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学);Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利天体物理研究所)
Guacimara García-Bethencourt, Arianna Di Cintio, Sébastien Comerón, Elena Arjona-Gálvez, Ana Contreras-Santos, Salvador Cardona-Barrero, Chris B. A. Brook, Andr… 展开作者

Guacimara García-Bethencourt, Arianna Di Cintio, Sébastien Comerón, Elena Arjona-Gálvez, Ana Contreras-Santos, Salvador Cardona-Barrero, Chris B. A. Brook, Andrea Negri, Noam I. Libeskind, Alexander Knebe

AI总结:

研究通过本地群模拟预测暗星系数量与分布,探讨其形成机制及检测方法,揭示暗星系在低密度区域的特性及LCDM模型的验证潜力。

摘要:

暗星系是气体保持静力和热平衡、从未形成恒星的低质量暗物质主导晕。它们是LCDM模型的强预测,但目前仅少数候选者被发现,如Cloud-9。本文利用多种高精度流体动力学模拟,预测本地群内暗星系的丰度,分析其性质并指导检测。通过约束初始条件的模拟,采用不同代码、恒星形成密度阈值(n_th=0.13和10 cm^-3)选择暗星系和亮星系样本,发现暗星系主要存在于低密度区域,其演化表明周围暗物质和气体密度低于亮星系,使其更易被检测。估计在银河系2.5 Mpc范围内,FAST望远镜可检测到最多8个暗星系,为LCDM模型提供直接测试。

英文摘要:

Dark galaxies are small, DM-dominated halos whose gas remains in hydrostatic and thermal equilibrium and has never formed stars. They are of particular interest because they represent a strong prediction of the LCDM model. As of today, only a handful of candidates have been detected, the most intriguing of which being Cloud-9. Using several state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations, we aim to predict the abundance of dark galaxies expected within our Local Group (LG), characterise their properties and provide guidance for their potential detection. We analyse LG simulations with constrained initial conditions, run with different codes, implementing different baryonic physics, feedback prescriptions, and employing two distinct values of SF density threshold, n_th=0.13 and 10 cm^-3, to select samples of dark and bright galaxies harboured in haloes of similar mass. We demonstrate that dark galaxies exist in such simulations, though their number is larger in simulations that use a higher, more realistic n_th. These galaxies, whose gas remains diffuse and never forms stars, predominantly inhabit less-concentrated, higher-spin DM halos than their luminous counterparts. Dark galaxies are typically found in low-density regions at the outskirts of the LG, and their evolution across z indicate that both the DM and gas densities in their surroundings were consistently lower than those found around bright galaxies, making them less susceptible to interactions, mergers, or gas inflows. We estimate that up to 8 dark galaxies should be detectable in HI emission within 2.5 Mpc of the MW, with the FAST telescope, accounting for its sky coverage and minimum M_HI and N_HI. Current hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, combined with upcoming HI surveys, will offer a direct and powerful test of LCDM through their ability to predict and measure properties of dark galaxies within and beyond the LG.

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