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NIHAO XXI: The emergence of Low Surface Brightness galaxies

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 نشر من قبل Arianna Di Cintio
 تاريخ النشر 2019
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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The existence of galaxies with a surface brightness $mu$ lower than the night sky has been known since three decades. Yet, their formation mechanism and emergence within a $rmLambda CDM$ universe has remained largely undetermined. For the first time, we investigated the origin of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies with M$_{star}$$sim$10$^{9.5-10}$M$_{odot}$, which we are able to reproduce within hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the NIHAO suite. The simulated and observed LSBs share similar properties, having large HI reservoir, extended star formation histories and effective radii, low S{e}rsic index and slowly rising rotation curves. The formation mechanism of these objects is explored: simulated LSBs form as a result of co-planar co-rotating mergers and aligned accretion of gas at early times, while perpendicular mergers and mis-aligned gas accretion result in higher $mu$ galaxies by $z$=0. The larger the merger, the stronger the correlation between merger orbital configuration and final $mu$. While the halo spin parameter is consistently high in simulated LSB galaxies, the impact of halo concentration, feedback-driven gas outflows and merger time only plays a minor-to-no role in determining $mu$. Interestingly, the formation scenario of such `classical LSBs differs from the one of less massive, M$_{star}$$sim$10$^{7-9}$M$_{odot}$, Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies, the latter resulting from the effects of SNae driven gas outflows: a M$_{star}$ of $sim$10$^9$M$_{odot}$ thus represents the transition regime between a feedback-dominated to an angular momentum-dominated formation scenario in the LSB realm. Observational predictions are offered regarding spatially resolved star formation rates through LSB discs: these, together with upcoming surveys, can be used to verify the proposed emergence scenario of LSB galaxies.

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