2024/01/13 by Lizhi Xie, Chen, Hongxing, Jie Wang +10
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Effective radius #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy formation and evolution #Halo #Milky Way #Physics #RADIUS #Ram pressure #Satellite #Satellite galaxy #Star formation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.07158
openalex publication_date 2024/01/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Environment plays a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of satellite galaxies. Analyzing the properties related to the cold gas phase of satellites provides insights into unravelling the complexity of environmental effects. We use the hydro-dynamical simulations Illustris TNG and Eagle, and the semi-analytic models (SAMs) GAEA and L-Galaxies, in comparison with recent observations from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), to investigate the properties of satellite galaxies hosted by halos with mass M200>1012.8M_\odot, and within projected regions ≤ 1.1 virial radius R200. Generally, satellite galaxies selected from semi-analytic models have more HI than those selected from hydro-dynamical simulations across all projected radii, e.g. more than 30% of satellites in the two hydro-simulations are HI depleted, while this fraction is almost zero in SAMs. Furthermore, both hydro-dynamical simulations and SAMs reproduce the observed decrease of HI content and specific star-formation rate (sSFR) towards the halo centre. However, the trend is steeper in two hydro-dynamical simulations TNG and EAGLE, resulting in a better agreement with the observational data, especially in more massive halos. By comparing the two version of GAEA, we find that the inclusion of ram-pressure stripping of cold gas significantly improves the predictions on HI fractions. The refined hot gas stripping method employed in one of the two L-Galaxies models also yields improved results.