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为Milky Way矮星团定制质量估计器

Tailored mass estimators for Milky Way dwarf Spheroidals

Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学)

Sofia L. Splawska, Raphaël Errani, Jorge Peñarrubia, Matthew G. Walker

AI总结:

本文通过拟合灵活的恒星密度模型,揭示了银河系dSph卫星在结构多样性上的影响,指出传统动态质量估计器存在高达10倍的系统性误差,并展示了对动态缩放关系的改变。

摘要:

假设在给定的引力势内具有球对称性和动力学平衡,矮星团(dSph)星系的全局平均恒星速度弥散完全取决于其恒星密度分布的形状。因此,对dSph引力势的动态推断必然敏感于关于该形状的假设。放松标准假设,我们拟合灵活的恒星密度模型以拟合银河系已知的dSph卫星观测数据。考虑到各种选择的密度分布形状和宿主暗物质晕的空间范围,我们利用virial定理将观测到的推断dSph恒星密度分布形状的不确定性传播到推断的动态质量的不确定性中。我们发现观测到的银河系dSph群体的结构多样性暗示了与标准动态质量估计器相关的系统性误差范围很大(最高可达10倍)。我们展示了考虑这些观测和系统性不确定性可以显著改变dSph动态缩放关系的外观和行为,包括封闭动态质量与恒星质量以及径向加速度关系。

英文摘要:

Assuming spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium within a given gravitational potential, a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy's globally averaged stellar velocity dispersion depends entirely on the shape of its stellar density profile. Thus, the dynamical inference of a dSph's gravitational potential is necessarily sensitive to assumptions about that shape. Relaxing standard assumptions, we fit flexible stellar density models to observations of the Milky Way's known dSph satellites. Considering various choices for the density profile shape and spatial extent of a host dark matter halo, we use the virial theorem to propagate observational uncertainties about the shapes of the inferred dSph stellar density profiles to uncertainties in the inferred dynamical masses. We find that the observed structural diversity of the Milky Way dSph population implies a large range of potential systematic errors (up to factors of 10) associated with standard dynamical mass estimators. We show that accounting for these observational and systematic uncertainties can significantly alter the appearance and behavior of dSph dynamical scaling relations, including enclosed dynamical mass vs. stellar mass and the Radial Acceleration Relation.

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