Formation of Large-Scale Structure and Galaxies
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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Distribution of Nearby Galaxies Mollweide projection of our Galaxy and the sky distribution of nearby galaxies.
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Mollweide Projection of the Earth Projection of a sphere onto a 2-dimensional plane so as to accurate preserve proportions in area.
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Our Galaxy Our Galaxy, also known as the Milky Way, is the bright band along the equator.
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Our Galaxy Our Galaxy, also known as the Milky Way, is the bright band along the equator.
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Our Galaxy Our Galaxy, also known as the Milky Way, is the bright band along the equator.
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Our Galaxy We live on a planet orbiting a star at the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
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Our Galaxy We live on a planet orbiting a star at the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
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Our Galaxy Our Galaxy looks like a milky band of light across the sky.
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Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Large Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud
Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Large Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud
Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Large Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova 1987A
Neighboring Galaxies The nearest galaxies are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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Neighboring Galaxies The next nearest galaxy is M31, the Andromeda galaxy. (250 m away)
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Neighboring Galaxies The next nearest galaxy is M31, the Andromeda galaxy.
M31 (Andromeda galaxy)
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Local Group Our galaxy is part of a group of over 50 galaxies.
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More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters At distances up to 140 million light years, we see … (5 km away; Wan Chai)
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At distances up to 140 million light years, we see …
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< 140 million light years
Clusters comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies such as the Virgo cluster.
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Virgo Cluster
Clusters comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies such as the Virgo cluster.
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< 140 million light years
Clusters comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies such as the Fornax cluster.
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Fornax Cluster
Clusters comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies such as the Fornax cluster.
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< 140 million light years
Galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged in long filaments.
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< 140 million light years
Galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged in long filaments (superclusters).
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At distances from 140-280 million light years, we see … (5-10 km away; Wan Chai and Fortress Hill)
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< 280 million light years
More clusters like the Centaurus cluster.
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< 280 million light years
Centaurus Cluster
More clusters like the Centaurus cluster.
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< 280 million light years
More superclusters.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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The Perseus-Pisces supercluster spans the constellation Perseus to Pisces.
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< 280 million light years
Perseus
The Perseus-Pisces supercluster spans the constellation Perseus to Pisces.
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< 280 million light years
Perseus Cluster
The Perseus-Pisces supercluster is anchored by the Perseus cluster to the east.
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< 280 million light years
More galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged in long filaments.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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At distances from 280-420 million light years, we see … (10-15 km away; Fortress Hill and Shau Kei Wan)
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< 280 million light years< 420 million light years
More clusters, such as the Coma cluster.
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< 280 million light years
Coma Cluster
More clusters, such as the Coma cluster.
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< 280 million light years< 420 million light years
Galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls.”
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At distances from 420-560 million light years, we see … (15-20 km away; Tai Wan and Fo Tan)
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< 560 million light years
More superclusters, and galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls”.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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At distances from 560-700 million light years, we see … (20-25 km away; near Lok Ma Chau)
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< 700 million light years
More superclusters, and galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls”.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters At distances from 700-840 million light years, we see … (25-30 km away; Shenzhen)
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< 560 million light years< 700 million light years< 840 million light years
More superclusters, and galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls”.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters At distances from 840-980 million light years, we see … (30-35 km away; beyond Shenzhen)
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< 980 million light years
More superclusters, and galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls”.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters At distances from 980-1220 million light years, we see … (35-44 km away; Pinghu residential district)
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< 1220 million light years
More superclusters, and galaxies (individual, in groups and clusters) arranged along “cell walls”.
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
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Closeup of a … beads (galaxies) along a string (filament)?
The Cosmic Web
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Closeup of a … beads (galaxies) along strings (filaments)?
The Cosmic Web
< 280 million light years
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Closeup of a … beads (galaxies) along connected strings (cell walls)?
The Cosmic Web
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You were looking at closeups of a spider’s web.
The Cosmic Web
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?In connected filaments called the Cosmic Web.
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?In connected filaments called the Cosmic Web.
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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What is the Universe made of? The Universe is made of
- 4.6% atoms (ordinary matter), such as people, Earth, Sun, stars, … - 23% Dark matter, which cannot be seen and only interact with ordinary matter through their mutual gravity
- 72% Dark Energy, which repulses ordinary and Dark matter
Dark matter therefore dominates gravity in the Universe.
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How did the Universe begin? The Universe expanded from a dense and hot state in a “Big Bang.”
Approximately 10−37 seconds into the expansion, the Universe went through a period of exponential expansion known as inflation.
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State of the Universe after Inflation The Universe was almost perfectly smooth following Inflation. If draped over the Earth’s surface, the height from the deepest to tallest points would only be 850 m.
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State of the Universe after Inflation The Universe was almost perfectly smooth following Inflation. If draped over the Earth’s surface, the height from the deepest to tallest points would only be 850 m.
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The Cosmic Microwave Background The CMB comprises radiation from the epoch when the Universe first became transparent, ~380,000 years after the Big Bang. The CMB is smooth to about 1 part in about 100,000, but is not perfectly smooth.
Regions of higher-than-average density have higher-than-average gravity, attracting both Dark and ordinary matter to form galaxies distributed in a Cosmic Web.
Dunkley+09
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Gravity on a Uniform Distribution of Matter If particles are uniformly distributed in space, there would be not be a net gravitational force between particles. Particles would not clump together.
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Gravity on a Non-Uniform Distribution of Matter If particles are not uniformly distributed in space, there exists a net gravitational force between particles. Particles would start to clump together.
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Gravity on a Non-Uniform Distribution of Matter Particles that clump together exert a stronger gravitational force on neighboring particles, attracting ever more particles towards the clump.
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Modeling the Formation of Large-Scale Structure The Millennium Simulation Project, an N-body simulation comprising over 109 particles each with a mass of ~8.6 × 108/h M and having a spatial resolution of 5/h kpc.
z Time since Big Bang
20 0.18 Gyr15 0.27 Gyr10 0.48 Gyr
8 0.65 Gyr6 0.95 Gyr5 1.20 Gyr4 1.57 Gyr3 2.19 Gyr2 3.34 Gyr1 5.94 Gyr0.5 8.65 Gyr0.2 11.26 Gyr0.1 12.38 Gyr
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Models vs Observations of Large-Scale Structure Comparison between pattern of large-scale structure predicted by the Millennium simulation and that measured from the distribution of galaxies.
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?In connected filaments called the Cosmic Web.
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?Through gravitational collapse of initial density inhomogeneities.
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?In connected filaments called the Cosmic Web.
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?Through gravitational collapse of initial density inhomogeneities.
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?
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Galaxy Formation The excellent overall agreement between observations and theoretical models of
large-scale structure indicates that we understand in a global sense how
galaxies form.
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Galaxy Formation The excellent overall agreement between observations and theoretical models of
large-scale structure indicates that we understand in a global sense how
galaxies form.
Springel+06
But, theoretical models simply represent galaxies as a collection of gravitating point masses. Real galaxies contain stars and gas (along with dark matter), where gas turn into stars and stars expel gas that turn into stars …
One of the frontiers of astrophysics: formation and evolution of galaxies.
Andromeda galaxy
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Formation of Large-Scale Structure and GalaxiesJeremy Lim, Associate Professor, University of Hong
Kong
How are galaxies distributed in space (large-scale structure)?In connected filaments called the Cosmic Web.
How is the observed large-scale structure formed?Through gravitational collapse of initial density inhomogeneities.
Does our ability to reproduce (in our computers) the observed large-scale structure mean we understand galaxy formation?No. We understand in a global sense how galaxies come into existence, but how galaxies actually form and evolve to assume their present-day properties is one of the most important frontiers in modern-day astrophysics.
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< 140 million light years
At distances up to 140 million light years, we see …
More Distant Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters