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On the absence of backsplash analogues to NGC 3109 in the ΛCDM framework

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Date
06/2021
Author
Banik, Indranil
Haslbauer, Moritz
Pawlowski, Marcel S
Famaey, Benoit
Kroupa, Pavel
Keywords
Galaxies: interactions
Gravitation
Methods: numerical
Methods: statistical
Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Galaxies: individual: NGC 3109
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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The dwarf galaxy NGC 3109 is receding 105 km s−1 faster than expected in a Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) timing argument analysis of the Local Group and external galaxy groups within 8 Mpc. If this few-body model accurately represents long-range interactions in ΛCDM, this high velocity suggests that NGC 3109 is a backsplash galaxy that was once within the virial radius of the Milky Way and was slingshot out of it. Here, we use the Illustris TNG300 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation and its merger tree to identify backsplash galaxies. We find that backsplashers as massive (≥4.0 × 1010 M⊙) and distant (≥1.2 Mpc) as NGC 3109 are extremely rare, with none having also gained energy during the interaction with their previous host. This is likely due to dynamical friction. Since we identified 13 225 host galaxies similar to the Milky Way or M31, we conclude that postulating NGC 3109 to be a backsplash galaxy causes >3.96σ tension with the expected distribution of backsplashers in ΛCDM. We show that the dark matter only version of TNG300 yields much the same result, demonstrating its robustness to how the baryonic physics is modelled. If instead NGC 3109 is not a backsplasher, consistency with ΛCDM would require the 3D timing argument analysis to be off by 105 km s−1 for this rather isolated dwarf, which we argue is unlikely. We discuss a possible alternative scenario for NGC 3109 and the Local Group satellite planes in the context of MOND, where the Milky Way and M31 had a past close flyby 7–10 Gyr ago.
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Banik , I , Haslbauer , M , Pawlowski , M S , Famaey , B & Kroupa , P 2021 , ' On the absence of backsplash analogues to NGC 3109 in the ΛCDM framework ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 503 , no. 4 , pp. 6170-6186 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab751
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab751
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: IB is supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship. MSP and BF thank the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for PPP grant 57512596 funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, and the Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) for PROCOPE project 44677UE. MSP thanks the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and German Scholars Organization e.V. for support via a Klaus Tschira Boost Fund. BF acknowledges funding from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (projects ANR-18-CE31-0006 and ANR-19-CE31-0017) and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (grant agreement number 834148).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24099

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