Massloss of galaxies due to a UV-background

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2008-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0378v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 390 (2008) 920-928

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 7figures, submitted to MNRAS, minor revision in reply to referee's comments

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13830.x

We perform cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to determine to what extent galaxies lose their gas due to photoheating from an ionizing background. We find that the characteristic mass at which haloes on average have lost half of their baryons is Mc ~ 6.5 x 10^9 Msun/h at z = 0, which corresponds to a circular velocity of 25 km/s. This is significantly lower than the filtering mass obtained by the linear theory, which is often used in semianalytical models of galaxy formation. We demonstrate it is the gas temperature at the virial radius which determines whether a halo can accrete gas. A simple model that follows the merger history of the dark matter progenitors, and where gas accretion is not allowed when this temperature is higher than the virial temperature of the halo, reproduces the results from the simulation remarkably well. This model can be applied to any reionization history, and is easy to incorporate in semianalytical models.

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