High and low Sersic index bulges in Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies: origin and connection to the bar with TNG50

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作者
Gargiulo, Ignacio D. [1 ,2 ]
Monachesi, Antonela [3 ,4 ]
Gomez, Facundo A. [3 ,4 ]
Nelson, Dylan [5 ]
Pillepich, Annalisa [6 ]
Pakmor, Rudiger [7 ]
Grand, R. J. J. [7 ,8 ,9 ]
Fragkoudi, Francesca [10 ]
Hernquist, Lars [11 ]
Lovell, Mark [12 ]
Marinacci, Federico [13 ]
机构
[1] UNLP, Inst Astrofis La Plata, CCT La Plata, CONICET,Observ Astron, Paseo Bosque B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina
[2] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn CONICET, Rivadavia 1917, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Univ La Serena, Inst Invest Multidisciplinar Ciencia & Tecnol, Raul Bitran 1305, La Serena, Chile
[4] Univ La Serena, Dept Astron, Av Juan Cisternas 1200 Norte, La Serena, Chile
[5] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Theoret Astrophys, Zentrum Astron, Albert Ueberle Str 2, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[6] Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[7] Max Planck Inst Astrophys, Karl Schwarzschild Str 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[8] Inst Astrofis Canarias, Calle Vaa Lactea S-N, E-38205 Tenerife, Spain
[9] Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, Av Astrofis Francisco Sanchez S-N, E-38206 Tenerife, Spain
[10] European Southern Observ, Karl Schwarzschild Str 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[11] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Inst Theory & Computat, 60 Garden St,MS 51, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[12] Univ Iceland, Ctr Astrophys & Cosmol, Sci Inst, Dunhaga 5, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
[13] Univ Bologna, Dept Phys & Astron Augusto Righi, Via Gobetti 93-2, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
关键词
galaxies: bar; galaxies: bulges; methods: numerical; STELLAR-POPULATION PROPERTIES; ILLUSTRISTNG SIMULATIONS; DARK-MATTER; STAR-FORMATION; PSEUDO-BULGES; COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; CLASSICAL BULGES; MERGER REMNANTS; NEARBY GALAXIES; MAJOR MERGERS;
D O I
10.1093/mnras/stac629
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We study bulge formation in MW/M31-like galaxies in a A-cold dark matter scenario, focusing on the origin of high- and low-Sersic index bulges. For this purpose, we use TNG50, a simulation of the IllustrisTNG project that combines a resolution of similar to 8 x 10(4) M-circle dot in stellar particles with a cosmological volume 52 cMpc in extent. We parametrize bulge surface brightness profiles by the Sersic index and the bulge-to-total (BIT) ratio obtained from two-component photometric decompositions. In our sample of 287 MW/M31-like simulated galaxies, 17.1 per cent of photometric bulges exhibit high-Sersic indices and 82.9 per cent show low-Sersic indices. We study the impact that the environment, mergers and bars have in shaping the surface brightness profiles. We find no correlation between bulge properties and the environment where they reside. Simulated galaxies with higher Sersic indices show, on average, a higher fraction of ex situ stars in their kinematically selected bulges. For this bulge population, the last significant merger (total mass ratio m(sat)/m(host) > 0.1) occurs, on average, at later times. However, a substantial fraction of low-Sersic index bulges also experience a late significant merger. We find that bars play an important role in the development of the different types of photometric bulges. The fraction of simulated galaxies with bars is smaller for the high- than for the low-Sersic index population, reaching differences of 20 per cent at z > 1. Simulated galaxies with high fractions of ex situ stars in the bulge do not develop strong bars. Conversely, simulated galaxies with long-lived strong bars have bulges with ex situ fractions, f(ex situ )< 0.2.
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页码:2537 / 2555
页数:19
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