Universal dark halo scaling relation for the dwarf spheroidal satellites

Abstract

Motivated by a recently found interesting property of the dark halo surface density within a radius, $r_{\max }$, giving the maximum circular velocity, $V_{\max }$, we investigate it for dark halos of the Milky Way's and Andromeda's dwarf satellites based on cosmological simulations. We select and analyze the simulated subhalos associated with Milky Way-sized dark halos and find that the values of their surface densities, ${\Sigma }_{V_{\max }}$, are in good agreement with those for the observed dwarf spheroidal satellites even without employing any fitting procedures. This implies that this surface density would not be largely affected by any baryonic feedbacks and thus universal. Moreover, all subhalos on the small scales of dwarf satellites are expected to obey the relation ${\Sigma }_{V_{\max }}\propto V_{\max }$, irrespective of differences in their orbital evolutions, host halo properties, and observed redshifts. Therefore, we find that the universal scaling relation for dark halos on dwarf galaxy mass scales surely exists and provides us important clues to understanding fundamental properties of dark halos. We also investigate orbital and dynamical evolutions of subhalos to understand the origin of this universal dark halo relation and find that most of subhalos evolve generally along the $r_{\max }\propto V_{\max }$ sequence, even though these subhalos have undergone different histories of mass assembly and tidal stripping. This sequence, therefore, should be the key feature to understand the nature of the universality of ${\Sigma }_{V_{\max }}$.

12 pages, 5 figures and 3 tables, submitted to ApJ

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