期刊
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
卷 62, 期 1, 页码 L1-L4出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/62.1.L1
关键词
cosmology: dark matter; cosmology: theory; galaxies: evolution
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
The dramatic size evolution of early-type galaxies from z similar to 2 to 0 poses a new challenge in the theory of galaxy formation, which may not be explained by the standard picture. It is shown here that the size evolution can be explained if the non-baryonic cold dark matter is composed of compact objects having a mass scale of similar to 10(5) M-circle dot. This form of dark matter is consistent with, or only weakly constrained by the currently available observations. The kinetic energy of the dark compact objects is transferred to stars by dynamical friction, and stars around the effective radius are pushed out to larger radii, resulting in a pure size evolution. This scenario has several good properties to explain the observations, including the ubiquitous nature of size evolution and faster disappearance of higher density galaxies.
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