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银河系晕中的运动学特征:银河系与其云团的宇宙学碰撞

Kinematic Signatures in the Stellar Halo from Cosmological Encounters between the Milky Way and its Clouds

University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i(夏威夷大学天体物理研究所);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Boston University(波士顿大学);Carnegie Observatories(卡内基观测站);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院)

Mia Mansfield, Robyn Sanderson, Daniel Hey, Daniel Huber, Arpit Arora, Emily Cunningham, Nondh Panithanpaisal

AI总结:

研究通过模拟揭示银河系与大麦哲伦星云的宇宙学碰撞如何在银河系晕中产生速度不对称性,利用球谐分解确认其特征并区分偶极子与四极子信号。

摘要:

最近的理论和观测分析表明,银河系(MW)与大麦哲伦星云(LMC)的相互作用对MW的恒星晕有显著的动态影响。我们利用Latte项目中的模拟研究了这种影响,Latte项目是Feedback In Realistic Environments 2(FIRE-2)项目的一个模拟套件。通过比较包含和不包含LMC类相互作用的模拟,我们发现完全宇宙学的LMC相互作用会在MW的恒星晕中产生显著的速度不对称性,这种不对称性源于恒心位移(

英文摘要:

Recent theoretical and observational analysis of the interaction between the Milky Way (MW) and LMC suggest that it has a significant dynamical impact on the MW's stellar halo. We investigate this effect using simulations from the Latte project, a simulation suite from the Feedback In Realistic Environments 2 (FIRE-2) Project. By comparing simulations with and without an LMC-analog interaction, we show that fully cosmological LMC interactions create prominent velocity asymmetry in the stellar halo of the MW, resulting from both barycentric displacement (the "reflex motion") and the dynamical wake of the LMC. The strength and direction of this asymmetry depend on the mass ratio at pericenter and orbit of the LMC analog. We perform a spherical-harmonic decomposition of the velocities of halo star particles to confirm that the identified signatures are LMC-induced and persist even when LMC star particles are removed. We also show that this strategy separates and individually detects the dipole (l=1) of the global reflex motion and the quadrupole (l=2) of the local wake. These asymmetries are consistent with those identified in previous work using non-cosmological simulations; the dipole is easily distinguishable from other complex halo substructure using spherical harmonics while the quadrupole is sometimes confused. These findings support the detectability of MW--LMC interaction signatures in upcoming observational surveys of the MW stellar halo.

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