期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 473, 期 1, 页码 538-559出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2332
关键词
methods: analytical; methods: numerical; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: haloes
资金
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/K00042X/1]
- STFC [ST/H008519/1, ST/L00075X/1]
- STFC DiRAC [ST/K003267/1]
- Durham University
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC [278594-GasAroundGalaxies]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) through VICI [639.043.409]
- STFC [ST/P002293/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/M007006/1, ST/K00042X/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I00162X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K00042X/1, ST/P002293/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/M007006/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms. We find that the appearance of a strong bimodality in the probability density function of the ratio of the radiative cooling and dynamical times for halo gas provides a clear signature of the formation of a hot corona. Haloes of total mass 10(11.5)-10(12) M-circle dot develop a hot corona independent of redshift, at least in the interval z = 0-4, where the simulation has sufficiently good statistics. We analyse the build-up of the hot gas mass in the halo, M-hot, as a function of halo mass and redshift and find that while more energetic galactic wind powered by SNe increases M-hot, active galactic nucleus feedback reduces it by ejecting gas from the halo. We also study the thermal properties of gas accreting on to haloes and measure the fraction of shock-heated gas as a function of redshift and halo mass. We develop analytic and semi-analytic approaches to estimate a 'critical halo mass', M-crit, for hot halo formation. We find that the mass for which the heating rate produced by accretion shocks equals the radiative cooling rate reproduces the mass above which haloes develop a significant hot atmosphere. This yields a mass estimate of M-crit approximate to 10(11.7) M-circle dot at z = 0, which agrees with the simulation results. The value of M-crit depends more strongly on the cooling rate than on any of the feedback parameters.
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