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标题：Galaxy disc scaling relations: A tight linear galaxy–halo connection challenges abundance matching
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作者：Lorenzo Posti ; Antonino Marasco ; Filippo Fraternali 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2019
卷号：629
页码：1-16
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/201935982
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：In ΛCDM cosmology, to first order, galaxies form out of the cooling of baryons within the virial radius of their dark matter halo. The fractions of mass and angular momentum retained in the baryonic and stellar components of disc galaxies put strong constraints on our understanding of galaxy formation. In this work, we derive the fraction of angular momentum retained in the stellar component of spirals,fj, the global star formation efficiencyfM, and the ratio of the asymptotic circular velocity (Vflat) to the virial velocityfV, and their scatter, by fitting simultaneously the observed stellar mass-velocity (Tully–Fisher), size–mass, and mass–angular momentum (Fall) relations. We compare the goodness of fit of three models: (i) where the logarithm offj,fM, andfVvary linearly with the logarithm of the observableVflat; (ii) where these values vary as a double power law; and (iii) where these values also vary as a double power law but with a prior imposed onfMsuch that it follows the expectations from widely used abundance matching models. We conclude that the scatter in these fractions is particularly small (∼0.07 dex) and that the linear model is by far statistically preferred to that with abundance matching priors. This indicates that the fundamental galaxy formation parameters are small-scatter single-slope monotonic functions of mass, instead of being complicated non-monotonic functions. This incidentally confirms that the most massive spiral galaxies should have turned nearly all the baryons associated with their haloes into stars. We call this the failed feedback problem.
关键词：engalaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: spiralgalaxies: structuregalaxies: formation