Extragalactic Stellar Tidal Streams: Observations meet Simulation
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| author | Miro-Carretero, Juan Gomez-Flechoso, Maria A. Martinez-Delgado, David Cooper, Andrew P. Roca-Fabrega, Santi Akhlaghi, Mohammad Pillepich, Annalisa Kuijken, Konrad Erkal, Denis Buck, Tobias Hellwing, Wojciech A. Bose, Sownak Donatiello, Giuseppe Frenk, Carlos S. |
| author_facet | Miro-Carretero, Juan Gomez-Flechoso, Maria A. Martinez-Delgado, David Cooper, Andrew P. Roca-Fabrega, Santi Akhlaghi, Mohammad Pillepich, Annalisa Kuijken, Konrad Erkal, Denis Buck, Tobias Hellwing, Wojciech A. Bose, Sownak Donatiello, Giuseppe Frenk, Carlos S. |
| contents | According to the well established hierarchical framework for galaxy evolution, galaxies grow through mergers with other galaxies and the LambdaCDM cosmological model predicts that the stellar halos of massive galaxies are rich in remnants from minor mergers. The Stellar Streams Legacy Survey (SSLS) has provided a first release of a catalogue with a statistically significant sample of stellar streams in the Local Universe, detected in deep images from DESI Legacy Surveys and the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The main objective is to compare the results of the observations of stellar tidal streams with predictions from state-of-the-art cosmological simulations regarding their abundance, up to a redshift z < 0.02, according to the LambdaCDM model. We use the predictions of the cosmological simulations Copernicus Complexio, TNG50 of the IllustrisTNG project, and Auriga to generate mock-images of nearby halos and search for stellar streams. We compare the stream frequency, characteristics and photometry in these images with DES observations. We find generally good agreement between the real images and the simulated ones regarding frequency, characteristics and photometry of the streams, while the stream morphology is somewhat different between observations and simulations, and between simulations themselves. By varying the sky background of the synthetic images to emulate different surface brightness limit levels, we also obtain predictions for the detection rate of stellar tidal streams up to a surface brightness limit of 35 mag arcsec^-2. The cosmological simulations predict that with an instrument such as the one used in the DES, it would be necessary to reach a surface brightness limit of 32 mag arcsec^-2 in the r-band to achieve a frequency of up to around 70% in the detection of stellar tidal streams around galaxies in the redshift range considered here. |
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| spellingShingle | Extragalactic Stellar Tidal Streams: Observations meet Simulation Miro-Carretero, Juan Gomez-Flechoso, Maria A. Martinez-Delgado, David Cooper, Andrew P. Roca-Fabrega, Santi Akhlaghi, Mohammad Pillepich, Annalisa Kuijken, Konrad Erkal, Denis Buck, Tobias Hellwing, Wojciech A. Bose, Sownak Donatiello, Giuseppe Frenk, Carlos S. Astrophysics of Galaxies According to the well established hierarchical framework for galaxy evolution, galaxies grow through mergers with other galaxies and the LambdaCDM cosmological model predicts that the stellar halos of massive galaxies are rich in remnants from minor mergers. The Stellar Streams Legacy Survey (SSLS) has provided a first release of a catalogue with a statistically significant sample of stellar streams in the Local Universe, detected in deep images from DESI Legacy Surveys and the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The main objective is to compare the results of the observations of stellar tidal streams with predictions from state-of-the-art cosmological simulations regarding their abundance, up to a redshift z < 0.02, according to the LambdaCDM model. We use the predictions of the cosmological simulations Copernicus Complexio, TNG50 of the IllustrisTNG project, and Auriga to generate mock-images of nearby halos and search for stellar streams. We compare the stream frequency, characteristics and photometry in these images with DES observations. We find generally good agreement between the real images and the simulated ones regarding frequency, characteristics and photometry of the streams, while the stream morphology is somewhat different between observations and simulations, and between simulations themselves. By varying the sky background of the synthetic images to emulate different surface brightness limit levels, we also obtain predictions for the detection rate of stellar tidal streams up to a surface brightness limit of 35 mag arcsec^-2. The cosmological simulations predict that with an instrument such as the one used in the DES, it would be necessary to reach a surface brightness limit of 32 mag arcsec^-2 in the r-band to achieve a frequency of up to around 70% in the detection of stellar tidal streams around galaxies in the redshift range considered here. |
| title | Extragalactic Stellar Tidal Streams: Observations meet Simulation |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03585 |