Properties of the mini-halos in dwarf ellipticals obtained from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations

  • Shin, Jihye (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, Juhan (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Kim, Sungsoo S. (Department of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Yoon, Suk-Jin (Center for Space Astrophysics and Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Changbom (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
  • 발행 : 2012.10.17

초록

We have performed cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that include the effects of radiative heating/cooling, star formation, feedback by supernova explosions, and metallicity evolution. Our simulations cover a cubic box of a side length 4 Mpc/h with 130 million particles. The mass of each particle is $3.4{\times}10^4M_{\odot}$, thus sub-galactic mini-halos can be resolved with more than hundred particles. Our simulation follows the whole formation process of the mini-halos (M< $10^7M_{\odot}$) around dwarf galaxies. We discuss various properties of the mini halos such as mass function, specific frequency, baryon-to-dark matter ratio, metallicity, spatial distribution, and orbit eccentricity distribution as functions of redshift and host galaxy mass. We also discuss how the formation and evolution of the mini halos are affected by the epoch of the reionization.

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