Simpson, CM, Gargiulo, I, Gómez, FA, Grand, RJJ, Maffione, N, Cooper, AP, Deason, AJ, Frenk, C, Helly, J, Marinacci, F and Pakmor, R (2019) Simulating cosmological substructure in the solar neighbourhood. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 490 (1). L32-L37. ISSN 1745-3925

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Abstract

We explore the predictive power of cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations for stellar phase-space substructure and velocity correlations with the auriga simulations and aurigaia mock Gaia catalogues. We show that at the solar circle the auriga simulations commonly host phase-space structures in the stellar component that have constant orbital energies and arise from accreted subhaloes. These structures can persist for a few Gyr, even after coherent streams in position space have been erased. We also explore velocity two-point correlation functions and find this diagnostic is not deterministic for particular clustering patterns in phase space. Finally, we explore these structure diagnostics with the aurigaia catalogues and show that current catalogues have the ability to recover some structures in phase space but careful consideration is required to separate physical structures from numerical structures arising from catalogue generation methods.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2019 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (OUP)
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	19 Apr 2023 11:55
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 11:55
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnrasl/slz142
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19318

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