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Streams in the Aquarius stellar haloes

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Gómez, Facundo A., Helmi, Amina, Cooper, Andrew P., Frenk, Carlos S., Navarro, Julio F., White, Simon D. M.·2013·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We use the very high resolution, fully cosmological simulations from the Aquarius Project, coupled to a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, to study the phase-space distribution of halo stars in ‘solar neighbourhood’ like volumes. We find that this distribution is very rich in substructure in the form of stellar streams for all five stellar haloes we have analysed. These streams can be easily identified in velocity space, as well as in spaces of pseudo-conserved quantities such as E versus Lz. In our best resolved local volumes, the number of identified streams ranges from ≈300 to 600, in very good agreement with previous analytical predictions, even in the presence of chaotic mixing. The fraction of particles linked to (massive) stellar streams in these volumes can be as large as 84 per cent. The number of identified streams is found to decrease as a power law with galactocentric radius. We show that the strongest limitation to the quantification of substructure in our poorest resolved local volumes is particle resolution rather than strong diffusion due to chaotic mixing.

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  • If the whole stellar halo had been built via mergers, approximately 500 streams would be expected in the halo near the Sun, independently of whether 10 or 100 galaxies had been accreted.

    “Helmi & White (1999) estimated analytically (this was later confirmed using cosmological simulations by Helmi et al. 2003, Gómez et al. 2013) that if the whole stellar halo had been built via mergers, approximately 500 streams would be expected in the halo near the Sun (independently of whether 10 or 100 galaxies had been accreted).”

    From Streams, Substructures, and the Early History of the Milky Way (2020) · cites this paper as Gómez et al. 2013

    Section 4.1 (p. 7) reports that the simulated solar-neighbourhood stream counts fall within the approximately 300–500 range predicted by Helmi & White, supporting the claim that Gómez et al. confirmed the approximate count. Our copy does not say that the count is independent of whether 10 or 100 galaxies were accreted. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Substructure is still present in integrals-of-motion spaces even in simulations of the full hierarchical assembly of the halo.

    “Nonetheless, Gómez et al. (2013) and Simpson et al. (2019), for example, have shown that substructure is still present in these spaces, even in simulations of the full hierarchical assembly of the halo.”

    From Streams, Substructures, and the Early History of the Milky Way (2020) · cites this paper as Gómez et al. 2013

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  1. Barden S. C. et al., 2010, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Vol. 7735, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series
  2. G´ omez F. A., 2010, PhD thesis, University of Groningen
  3. Helmi A., Gomez F., 2007, ArXiv e-prints

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Authors
Gómez, F. A., Helmi, A., Cooper, A. P., Frenk, C. S., Navarro, J. F., & White, S. D. M.
Affiliations
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Durham University (GB)
  • University of Victoria (CA)
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (DE)
Corresponding author
Gómez, Facundo A.
Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published
2013-10-23
Volume
436
Issue
4
Pages
3602-3613
ISSN
  • 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2966
OpenAlex
W2171727542
Cited by
56
References
92
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/I00162X/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I001166/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Keywords
stellar streams, stellar haloes, Aquarius Project, phase space distribution, halo substructure, chaotic mixing, galactocentric distance, particle resolution, Galactic halo

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