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一个晕,两个边界:在星系团中将吸积冲击波与溅射回边界联系起来

One Halo, Two Boundaries: Relating Accretion Shocks and Splashback Radii in Galaxy Clusters

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune(印度科学教育研究所浦那分校);Yale University(耶鲁大学);University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校)

Siddhant Sen, Susmita Adhikari, Daisuke Nagai, Benedikt Diemer

AI总结:

研究通过模拟发现星系团中溅射回边界与冲击波边界存在偏移,原因在于气体耗散能量而暗物质未受此影响。

摘要:

星系团中暗物质和气体的边界分别由溅射回半径和吸积冲击波界定。理论上,这两个边界在晕的边缘处应重合。然而,流体宇宙学模拟却显示两者存在显著位移。本研究利用IllustrisTNG模拟套件,研究812个团块质量晕中的溅射回面和冲击波面的统计关系。我们计算了两个边界的完整角分布,并考察其关系,同时考虑不同时刻的分布如何与晕属性相关联。我们采用基于分散度的溅射回边界度量方法和最大熵距离来确定冲击波位置。尽管考察了多种边界定义,我们始终观察到溅射回面和冲击波面之间存在偏移,溅射回半径与溅射回半径的比值约为1.3至2,具体取决于方法学选择。这种偏移主要发生在空洞方向。我们分析了部分晕的红移演变,并发现溅射回和冲击波边界在更早的时间并非一定不同。在并合过程中,气体通过压力耗散能量并抵抗收缩,而碰撞less暗物质则没有,导致观察到的边界偏移。我们还发现,来自外侧吸积冲击波的压强剖面特征对堆叠方法的精确性敏感,这对观测有重要影响。

英文摘要:

The boundaries of dark matter and gas in clusters are delineated by the splashback radius and the accretion shock, respectively. Theoretically, both of these boundaries are expected to coincide at the outskirts of halos. However, hydrodynamic cosmological simulations have highlighted significant displacement between them. In this study, we utilise the IllustrisTNG simulation suite to investigate the statistical relationship between the splashback and shock surfaces in a sample of 812 cluster-mass halos. We compute the full angular distribution of both boundaries and examine their relationship, also considering how different moments of this distribution correlate with halo properties. We employ a dispersion-based measure for the splashback boundary and the maximum entropy distance for the shock location. Despite examining various boundary definitions, we consistently observe an offset between the splashback and shock boundaries, with $R_{\rm sh}/R_{\rm sp} \sim 1.3-2$, depending on specific methodological choices. This offset predominantly occurs along void directions. We analyse the redshift evolution of these boundaries for a subset of halos and find that splashback and shock boundaries are not necessarily distinct at earlier times. During mergers, gas dissipates energy and resists contraction via pressure, unlike collisionless dark matter, leading to the observed boundary offset. We also find that the feature in pressure profiles arising from the outer accretion shock is sensitive to the exact method of stacking, which has important implications for observations.

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