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Dark matter free dwarf galaxy formation at the the tips of the tentacles of jellyfish galaxies
| العنوان: | Dark matter free dwarf galaxy formation at the the tips of the tentacles of jellyfish galaxies |
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| المؤلفون: | Lora, V., Smith, R., Fritz, J., Pasquali, A., Raga, A. C. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | When falling into a galaxy cluster, galaxies experience a loss of gas due to ram pressure stripping. In particular, disk galaxies lose gas from their disks and very large tentacles of gas can be formed. Because of the morphology of these stripped galaxies they have been referred to as Jellyfish galaxies. It has been found that star formation is triggered not only in the disk, but also in the tentacles of such Jellyfish galaxies. The observed star forming regions located in the tentacles of those galaxies have been found to be as massive as $3\times10^7$ M$_{\odot}$ and with sizes $> 100$ pc. Interestingly, these parameters in mass and size agree with those of dwarf galaxies. In this work we make use of the state of the art magneto-hydrodynamical cosmological simulation Illustris TNG-50, to study massive jellyfish galaxies with long tentacles. We find that, in the tentacles of TNG-50 Jellyfish galaxies, the star formation regions (gas+stars) formed could be as massive as $\sim2\times10^8$ M$_{\odot}$. A particular star forming region was analyzed. This region has a star formation rate of $0.04$ M$_{\odot}$/yr, it is metal rich, has an average age of $0.46$ Gyr, and has a half mass radius of $\sim1$ kpc, typical of standard dwarf galaxies. Most importantly, this region is gravitationally self-bound. All and all, we identify a new type of dwarf galaxy being born from the gas tentacles of jellyfish galaxies, that by construction lacks a dark matter (hereafter DM) halo. Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, ApJ Accepted |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05676 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2404.05676 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| الوصف غير متاح. |