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SEAGLE--II: Constraints on feedback models in galaxy formation from massive early type strong lens galaxies
Mukherjee, Sampath; Koopmans, Leon V. E.; Metcalf, R. Benton et al.
2021In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504 (3), p. 3455–3477
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Keywords :
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract :
[en] We use nine different galaxy formation scenarios in ten cosmological simulation boxes from the EAGLE suite of {\Lambda}CDM hydrodynamical simulations to assess the impact of feedback mechanisms in galaxy formation and compare these to observed strong gravitational lenses. To compare observations with simulations, we create strong lenses with $M_\star$ > $10^{11}$ $M_\odot$ with the appropriate resolution and noise level, and model them with an elliptical power-law mass model to constrain their total mass density slope. We also obtain the mass-size relation of the simulated lens-galaxy sample. We find significant variation in the total mass density slope at the Einstein radius and in the projected stellar mass-size relation, mainly due to different implementations of stellar and AGN feedback. We find that for lens selected galaxies, models with either too weak or too strong stellar and/or AGN feedback fail to explain the distribution of observed mass-density slopes, with the counter-intuitive trend that increasing the feedback steepens the mass density slope around the Einstein radius ($\approx$ 3-10 kpc). Models in which stellar feedback becomes inefficient at high gas densities, or weaker AGN feedback with a higher duty cycle, produce strong lenses with total mass density slopes close to isothermal (i.e. -d log({\rho})/d log(r) $\approx$ 2.0) and slope distributions statistically agreeing with observed strong lens galaxies in SLACS and BELLS. Agreement is only slightly worse with the more heterogeneous SL2S lens galaxy sample. Observations of strong-lens selected galaxies thus appear to favor models with relatively weak feedback in massive galaxies.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Mukherjee, Sampath ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Koopmans, Leon V. E.
Metcalf, R. Benton
Tortora, Crescenzo
Schaller, Matthieu
Schaye, Joop
Vernardos, Giorgos
Bellagamba, Fabio
Language :
English
Title :
SEAGLE--II: Constraints on feedback models in galaxy formation from massive early type strong lens galaxies
Publication date :
10 March 2021
Journal title :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN :
0035-8711
eISSN :
1365-2966
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
504
Issue :
3
Pages :
3455–3477
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
European Projects :
H2020 - 787886 - COSMICLENS - Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lensing
Funders :
CER - Conseil Européen de la Recherche [BE]
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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