卫星星系动力学状态对星系属性的依赖

The Dependence of Satellite Galaxy Kinematics on Galaxy Properties

基于Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS)数据,采用van den Bosch等发展的自适应方法从星系样本中挑选出中央星系及其卫星星系,然后研究卫星星系速度弥散与中央星系/卫星星系属性的关系.和之前的研究一致,卫星星系平均速度弥散随着中央星系质量增大而增大,并且红中央星系所在星系群的速度弥散比蓝中央星系要大.发现平均而言,在红中央星系周围,卫星星系的速度弥散和其质量之间没有明显关联.但是在蓝中央星系周围,质量大的卫星星系速度弥散偏大,而红卫星星系的速度弥散要比蓝卫星星系偏大.进一步的研究表明,在相同的暗晕中,卫星星系速度弥散和卫星星系质量并不相关.有意思的是,如果红中央星系周围同时有红和蓝卫星星系,那么红卫星星系的速度要小,对其中的物理机制进行了初步的探讨.此外还发现,若中央星系周围只有红或蓝(质量大或小)的卫星星系时,有红(或质量大)的卫星星系所在的暗晕的速度弥散要大于有蓝(或者质量小)的卫星星系的暗晕,这表明卫星星系属性对于暗晕质量测量是有影响的.

The relation between the satellite kinematics and the properties of host and satellites is investigated in this paper. Our host and satellite sample are selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey （SDSS） data by adopting a self-adapted method developed by van den Bosch et al. Consistent with the previous studies, the average velocity dispersion increases with the mass of host galaxy, and is larger for red hosts than for blue hosts. We find that, on average, the velocity dispersion is independent of satellite mass around red hosts, however it increases with satellite mass around blue hosts, and red satellites have larger velocity dispersions than their blue counterparts. Our further investigations show that in the same halo, the velocity dispersions are independent of satellite mass, regardless of the host color. Interestingly, around the red host, red satellites tend to have smaller velocity dispersion than the blue ones. It implies some interesting processes. In addition, we also find that, if host galaxies only have red or blue （high mass or low mass） satellites, the system with red （high mass） satellites have larger velocity dispersions than blue （low mass） satellites. It suggests that satellite properties are important for dark halo mass measurement.