Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-08
Astrophys.J. 551 (2001) 608-623
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
50 pages incl. 17 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/320211
We have performed TreeSPH simulations of disk galaxy formation in various warm dark matter (WDM) cosmologies. Our results indicate that for a range of WDM free-streaming masses, the disk galaxy formation angular momentum problem can be completely resolved by going to the WDM structure formation scenario, without having to invoke stellar feedback processes at all. We also confirm our previous suspicion, that part of the angular momentum problem is due to numerical effects, most likely related to the shock capturing, artificial viscosity used in SPH. Furthermore we find that we can match the observed I-band Tully-Fisher (TF) relation, provided that the I-band mass-to-light ratio of disk galaxies is about 0.8. We argue that this is quite a reasonable value in comparison with various dynamical and spectrophotometric estimates, including one given in this paper. We speculate that our success in matching the TF relation may be due to WDM halos being less centrally concentrated than CDM halos and suggest to check this exciting possibility with high resolution simulations, in particular in low Omega_M, WDM cosmologies. Finally, we discuss possible physical candidates for WDM particles extensively. We find that the most promising are neutrinos with weaker or stronger interactions than normal, majorons (light pseudogoldstone bosons) or mirror or shadow world neutrinos.
Dolgov Alexandre
Sommer-Larsen Jesper
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