什么是高红移星系？研究它们有什么意义？
What is a high-redshift galaxy, and why study them?
高红移星系是指退行速度极快、红移值很大（如 z>6，对应宇宙年龄不足10亿年）的星系，其光线在膨胀宇宙中经过上百亿年才到达我们。研究它们能直接观测早期宇宙的结构形成、恒星和黑洞的诞生，并检验星系演化与宇宙再电离模型。它们还是探测早期物质分布与暗物质晕的重要探针。
A high-redshift galaxy is one whose light has been stretched by cosmic expansion to very large redshifts (e.g. z>6, when the universe was under a billion years old), so we see it as it was over ten billion years ago. Studying them lets us observe directly how the first galaxies, stars, and black holes formed, and test models of galaxy evolution and cosmic reionization. They also serve as probes of the early matter distribution and dark-matter halos.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#高红移 #星系 #早期宇宙
为什么天文学家认为大型星系主要通过层级并合生长,而不是一次性单体坍缩形成?
Why do astronomers believe large galaxies grow mainly through hierarchical merging rather than forming in a single monolithic collapse?
冷暗物质框架下的数值模拟表明,小型暗物质晕先形成,再经由持续的并合组装成更大的晕,寄居其中的星系随之成长。观测证据同样支持这一图像:哈勃深场拍摄到高红移宇宙中大量形状扭曲、正在并合的星系,近邻星系里的恒星流与增厚星盘则是远古并合留下的化石记录。
Numerical simulations in the cold-dark-matter framework show that small dark matter halos form first and assemble into ever larger ones through continuous merging, with their resident galaxies growing along the way. Observations back this picture up: the Hubble Deep Fields captured many distorted, actively merging galaxies in the high-redshift universe, and stellar streams plus thickened disks in nearby galaxies serve as fossil records of ancient mergers.
难度 进阶 · 适合 大众
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Mo, van den Bosch & White《Galaxy Formation and Evolution》;哈勃深场(Hubble Deep Field)巡天观测
Mo, van den Bosch & White, Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Hubble Deep Field survey observations
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#星系演化 #层级并合
星系研究中的下行化图景描述了怎样的现象?它与暗物质层级成团的朴素预期之间存在什么矛盾?
What phenomenon does the downsizing picture describe in galaxy studies, and where does it conflict with the naive expectation of hierarchical dark matter assembly?
层级成团预言尺度越大的结构成形越晚,但近红外选样光谱却显示最亮的椭圆星系早在红移二前后便完成了绝大部分恒星形成,而矮星系至今仍在经历旺盛的恒星诞生,恒星形成高峰随质量下降而逐级推迟,这种反序被命名为下行化。这说明重子物质的恒星形成效率受反馈过程和气体供给历史的调制,并不由暗物质并合的时刻单独决定。数值模拟只有在引入活动星系核反馈之后,才能重现大质量星系的提前熄火。
Hierarchical assembly predicts that structures of larger scale form later, yet near-infrared selected spectroscopy shows the brightest elliptical galaxies completed most of their star formation by around redshift two while dwarf galaxies still experience vigorous star birth today, the peak of star formation shifting progressively later toward lower masses, an inversion named downsizing. This indicates that the star-formation efficiency of baryons is modulated by feedback processes and gas supply history rather than dictated solely by dark-matter merger epochs. Numerical simulations reproduce the premature quenching of massive galaxies only once active-galactic-nucleus feedback is introduced.
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Cowie 等,Astronomical Journal 112:839 (1996);Thomas 等,Nature 433:740 (2005)
Cowie et al., Astronomical Journal 112, 839 (1996); Thomas et al., Nature 433, 740 (2005)
#星系演化 #下行化