Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-02-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
Following our previous work(Jiang et al.(2008)), in which we studied the merger time-scale of galaxies in a high-resolution cosmological hydro/N-body simulation, we investigate the potential influence of uncertainties in the numerical implementation of baryonic physics on the merger time-scale. The simulation used in the previous work suffers from the overcooling problem which causes the central galaxies of large halos too massive. This may result in a shortened merger time-scale compared to that in the real universe. We run a similar simulation, but the stellar mass is significantly reduced to model another extreme case of low stellar mass. Our result shows that the merger time-scale is little affected by the star formation recipes, except for the satellites in nearly radial orbits which show a 22 percent higher time-scale in the lower stellar mass case. Since the radial orbits only account for a small part of the satellites' orbits, the fitting formula in Jiang et al.(2008) is still applicable to a reasonable accuracy, nearly immune to the uncertainty in the baryonic physics.
Jiang C. Y.
Jing Yi-Peng
Lin Wei-Peng
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