Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Zhu, Bocheng, Gao, Liang
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2024
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16176
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866916876533104640
author Zhu, Bocheng
Gao, Liang
author_facet Zhu, Bocheng
Gao, Liang
contents We explore the effect of local stellar radiation on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies around Milky Way (MW) analogues. Using five simulations from the Auriga project, both with and without local stellar radiation, we find that local stellar radiation, as a pre-reionization source, is highly effective at photoionizing and heating the gas around the proto-MW analogues. As a result, the formation of surrounding dwarf galaxies in dark matter halos with masses below approximately $10^{9.5}\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ are significantly suppressed. After reionization, the intensity of local stellar radiation eventually becomes comparable to the ultraviolet background (UVB). Consequently, the impact of local stellar radiation on the surrounding dwarf galaxy formation decreases with decreasing redshift and nearly vanishes after redshift $z=4$. At present day, the bright satellite population in the simulations with and without local stellar radiation is nearly identical. While our simulations do not have sufficient resolution to resolve the faintest satellite galaxies which are most prone to the local stellar radiation, we use the accreted galaxy mass function to assess the impact and find that the reduction in the faintest satellite is around $13$ percent in the presence of local stellar radiation, but this difference is within $\sim2σ$ of the Poisson uncertainty and thus not statistically significant.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_16176
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle The Impact of Local Stellar Radiation on Dwarf Galaxy Formation Around Milky Way Analogues Across Cosmic Reionization
Zhu, Bocheng
Gao, Liang
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We explore the effect of local stellar radiation on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies around Milky Way (MW) analogues. Using five simulations from the Auriga project, both with and without local stellar radiation, we find that local stellar radiation, as a pre-reionization source, is highly effective at photoionizing and heating the gas around the proto-MW analogues. As a result, the formation of surrounding dwarf galaxies in dark matter halos with masses below approximately $10^{9.5}\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ are significantly suppressed. After reionization, the intensity of local stellar radiation eventually becomes comparable to the ultraviolet background (UVB). Consequently, the impact of local stellar radiation on the surrounding dwarf galaxy formation decreases with decreasing redshift and nearly vanishes after redshift $z=4$. At present day, the bright satellite population in the simulations with and without local stellar radiation is nearly identical. While our simulations do not have sufficient resolution to resolve the faintest satellite galaxies which are most prone to the local stellar radiation, we use the accreted galaxy mass function to assess the impact and find that the reduction in the faintest satellite is around $13$ percent in the presence of local stellar radiation, but this difference is within $\sim2σ$ of the Poisson uncertainty and thus not statistically significant.
title The Impact of Local Stellar Radiation on Dwarf Galaxy Formation Around Milky Way Analogues Across Cosmic Reionization
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16176