Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams

Autores
Mestre, Martín Federico; Llinares, Claudio; Carpintero, Daniel Diego
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
Observations show that stellar streams originating in satellite dwarf galaxies are frequent in the Universe. While such events are predicted by theory, it is not clear how many of the streams that are generated are washed out afterwards to the point in which it is impossible to detect them. Here, we study how these diffusion times are affected by the fact that typical gravitational potentials of the host galaxies can sustain chaotic orbits. We do this by comparing the behaviour of simulated stellar streams that reside in chaotic or non-chaotic regions of the phase space. We find that chaos does reduce the time interval in which streams can be detected. By analysing detectability criteria in configuration and velocity space, we find that the impact of these results on the observations depends on the quality of both the data and the underlying stellar halo model. For all the stellar streams, we obtain a similar upper limit to the detectable mass.
Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
Materia
Ciencias Astronómicas
Astronomía
chaos
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: haloes
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
title Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
spellingShingle Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
Mestre, Martín Federico
Ciencias Astronómicas
Astronomía
chaos
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: haloes
title_short Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
title_full Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
title_fullStr Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
title_full_unstemmed Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
title_sort Effects of chaos on the detectability of stellar streams
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mestre, Martín Federico
Llinares, Claudio
Carpintero, Daniel Diego
author Mestre, Martín Federico
author_facet Mestre, Martín Federico
Llinares, Claudio
Carpintero, Daniel Diego
author_role author
author2 Llinares, Claudio
Carpintero, Daniel Diego
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
Astronomía
chaos
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: haloes
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Astronomía
chaos
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: haloes
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Observations show that stellar streams originating in satellite dwarf galaxies are frequent in the Universe. While such events are predicted by theory, it is not clear how many of the streams that are generated are washed out afterwards to the point in which it is impossible to detect them. Here, we study how these diffusion times are affected by the fact that typical gravitational potentials of the host galaxies can sustain chaotic orbits. We do this by comparing the behaviour of simulated stellar streams that reside in chaotic or non-chaotic regions of the phase space. We find that chaos does reduce the time interval in which streams can be detected. By analysing detectability criteria in configuration and velocity space, we find that the impact of these results on the observations depends on the quality of both the data and the underlying stellar halo model. For all the stellar streams, we obtain a similar upper limit to the detectable mass.
Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
description Observations show that stellar streams originating in satellite dwarf galaxies are frequent in the Universe. While such events are predicted by theory, it is not clear how many of the streams that are generated are washed out afterwards to the point in which it is impossible to detect them. Here, we study how these diffusion times are affected by the fact that typical gravitational potentials of the host galaxies can sustain chaotic orbits. We do this by comparing the behaviour of simulated stellar streams that reside in chaotic or non-chaotic regions of the phase space. We find that chaos does reduce the time interval in which streams can be detected. By analysing detectability criteria in configuration and velocity space, we find that the impact of these results on the observations depends on the quality of both the data and the underlying stellar halo model. For all the stellar streams, we obtain a similar upper limit to the detectable mass.
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