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Maller, Ariyeh H; Katz, Neal; Kereš, Dušan; Davé, Romeel; Weinberg, David H
The Astrophysical journal, 08/2006, Letnik: 647, Številka: 2Journal Article
We construct merger trees for galaxies identified in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation and use them to characterize predicted merger rates as a function of redshift, galaxy mass, and merger mass ratio. At z = 0.3, we find a mean rate of 0.054 mergers per galaxy per Gyr above a 1:2 mass ratio threshold for massive galaxies (baryonic mass above 6.4 x 10 super(10)M sub( )), but only 0.018 Gyr super(-1) for lower mass galaxies. The mass ratio distribution is aR super(-1.2 rnerg) for the massive galaxy sample, so high-mass mergers dominate the total merger growth rate. The predicted rates increase rapidly with increasing redshift, and they agree reasonably well with observational estimates. A substantial fraction of galaxies do not experience any resolved mergers during the course of the simulation, and even for the high-mass sample, only 50% of galaxies experience a greater than 1: 4 merger since z = 1. Typical galaxies thus have fairly quiescent merger histories. We assign bulge-to-disk ratios to simulated galaxies by assuming that mergers above a mass ratio threshold R sub(major) convert stellar disks into spheroids. With R sub(major) values of 1: 4, we obtain a fairly good match to the observed dependence of the early-type fraction on galaxy mass. However, the predicted fraction of truly bulge-dominated systems (f sub(bulge) >0.8) is small, and producing a substantial population of bulge-dominated galaxies may require a mechanism that shuts off gas accretion at late times and/or additional processes (besides major mergers) for producing bulges.
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