GABE: Galaxy Assembly with Binary Evolution [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11224


We developed a new semi-analytic galaxy formation model: Galaxy Assembly with Binary Evolution (GABE), which for the first time includes binary evolution through the stellar population synthesis model (SPSM). When implementing our galaxy formation model onto the merger trees extracted from the Millennium simulation, it can reproduce a large body of observational results. We find that in the local universe the model including binary evolution reduces the luminosity at optical and infrared wavelengths slightly, while increases the luminosity at ultraviolet wavelength significantly, especially in $F_{\rm UV}$ band. The resulting luminosity function does not change very much over SDSS optical bands and infrared band, but the predicted colors are bluer, especially when $F_{\rm UV}$ band is under consideration. The new model allows us to explore the physics of various high energy events related to the remnants of binary stars, e.g. type Ia supernovae, short gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave events, and their relation with host galaxies in a cosmological context.

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Z. Jiang, J. Wang, L. Gao, et. al.
Fri, 26 Apr 19
48/69

Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics