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VINTERGATAN-GM : The cosmological imprints of early mergers on Milky-Way-mass galaxies
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- Rey, Martin P. (författare)
- University of Oxford
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- Agertz, Oscar (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Astrofysik,Fysiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Astrophysics,Department of Physics,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Starkenburg, Tjitske K. (författare)
- Northwestern University
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- Renaud, Florent (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Astrofysik,Fysiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Astrophysics,Department of Physics,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Joshi, Gandhali D. (författare)
- University College London
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- Pontzen, Andrew (författare)
- University College London
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- Martin, Nicolas F. (författare)
- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,Observatory of Strasbourg
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- Feuillet, Diane K. (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Astrofysik,Fysiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Astrophysics,Department of Physics,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Read, Justin I. (författare)
- University of Surrey
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- 2023-02-15
- 2023
- Engelska 18 s.
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Ingår i: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 521:1, s. 995-1012
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Abstract
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- We present a new suite of cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical (≈ 20 pc spatial resolution) simulations of Milky-Way mass galaxies to study how a varying mass ratio for a Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) progenitor impacts the z = 0 chemodynamics of halo stars. Using the genetic modification approach, we create five cosmological histories for a Milky-Way-mass dark matter halo (M200 ≈ 1012 M☉), incrementally increasing the stellar mass ratio of a z ≈ 2 merger from 1:25 to 1:2, while fixing the galaxy’s final dynamical, stellar mass, and large-scale environment. We find markedly different morphologies at z = 0 following this change in early history, with a growing merger resulting in increasingly compact and bulge-dominated galaxies. Despite this structural diversity, all galaxies show a radially biased population of inner halo stars like the Milky-Way’s GSE which, surprisingly, has a similar magnitude, age, [Fe/H], and [α/Fe] distribution whether the z ≈ 2 merger is more minor or major. This arises because a smaller ex-situ population at z ≈ 2 is compensated by a larger population formed in an earlier merger-driven starburst whose contribution to the GES can grow dynamically over time, and with both populations strongly overlapping in the [Fe/H] − [α/Fe] plane. Our study demonstrates that multiple high-redshift histories can lead to similar z = 0 chemodynamical features in the halo, highlighting the need for additional constraints to distinguish them, and the importance of considering the full spectrum of progenitors when interpreting z = 0 data to reconstruct our Galaxy’s past.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- galaxies: formation
- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
- Galaxy: formation
- Galaxy: halo
- methods: numerical
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