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环绕子晕捕获晕物质

The capture of halo material by orbiting subhaloes

Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学);Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics(马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所);Zhengzhou University(郑州大学)

Hang Yang, Simon D. M. White, Liang Gao

AI总结:

研究通过高分辨率模拟发现,子晕通过引力捕获宿主物质的效率极低,不足以使原本无恒星的低质量子晕被观测到。

摘要:

当暗物质晕落入更巨大的天体并成为子晕时,通常会通过潮汐剥离失去大部分质量。反向过程在原则上也是可能的。子晕可能通过引力捕获来自其宿主的物质。如果足够有效,这一过程可以使最初没有恒星的子晕变得可见。我们使用高分辨率的N-body模拟来估计捕获效率。我们发现,在长时间绕行其宿主后,自落入以来,子晕剩余质量中最多只有约10^-4被获取。所捕获的物质比从之前落入时保留的物质更不集中于子晕中心。它也比瞬间通过子晕的宿主物质少得多。被捕获的恒星在空间上并不足够集中,以区别于主导的“场”恒星背景,其在速度空间中的集中程度不高于晕中的典型恒星流。不幸的是,恒星捕获效率不足以使最初没有恒星的低质量子晕被检测到。

英文摘要:

When a dark matter halo falls into a more massive object and becomes a subhalo, it typically loses much of its mass through tidal stripping. The reverse process is also possible in principle. The subhalo may gravitationally capture material from its host. If sufficiently efficient, this process could make an initially starless subhalo visible. We use high-resolution N-body simulations to estimate the efficiency of capture. We find that after an extended period orbiting within its host, at most $\sim 10^{-4}$ of a subhalo's remaining mass has been acquired since infall. This captured material is less concentrated to subhalo centre than material retained from before infall. It is also very much less abundant than host material that is instantaneously passing through the subhalo on almost unperturbed orbits. Captured stars are not sufficiently spatially concentrated to be distinguished from the dominant background of "field" stars, and their concentration in velocity space is no greater than that of typical stellar streams in the halo. Unfortunately, stellar capture is not efficient enough to allow initially starless low-mass subhaloes to be detected.

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