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具有活动势的旋涡星系的模拟:分子云的形成和气体动力学

Simulations of spiral galaxies with an active potential: molecular cloud formation and gas dynamics

Clare Dobbs, Ian Bonnell

摘要:

我们描述了模拟的气体盘的积极的螺旋潜力的响应。该势是由N体计算得到的,并导致了多臂的时间演化模式。气体形成了典型的大设计星系的长螺旋臂,尽管螺旋图案是不对称的。与具有一致的2/4臂模式的大设计螺旋星系的主要区别在于,气体通常不会穿过螺旋臂,而是落入发展中的潜在最小值,并且只有当局部最小值溶解时才会释放。在这种情况下,密度气体与螺旋势重合,而不是像大设计螺旋那样偏移。因此,我们认为螺旋激波和恒星形成之间没有偏移,也没有明显的共旋半径。当大块物质被剪断离开旋臂时,在大设计的螺旋中出现的刺,在这里报道的活跃的、随时间演变的螺旋中是罕见的。相反,当潜在的螺旋势由于N体动力学而溶解时,螺旋臂就会形成大的分支。我们发现,分子云质谱的活动潜力是类似的云在大设计计算,主要取决于环境压力,而不是潜在的性质。最大的分子云发生在螺旋臂碰撞时,而不是在螺旋臂内凝聚。

英文摘要:

We describe simulations of the response of a gaseous disc to an active spiral potential. The potential is derived from an N-body calculation and leads to a multi-armed time-evolving pattern. The gas forms long spiral arms typical of grand design galaxies, although the spiral pattern is asymmetric. The primary difference from a grand-design spiral galaxy, which has a consistent 2/4-armed pattern, is that instead of passing through the spiral arms, gas generally falls into a developing potential minimum and is released only when the local minimum dissolves. In this case, the densest gas is coincident with the spiral potential, rather than offset as in the grand-design spirals. We would there fore expect no offset between the spiral shock and star formation, and no obvious co-rotation radius. Spurs which occur in grand-design spirals when large clumps are sheared off leaving the spiral arms, are rare in the active, time-evolving spiral reported here. Instead, large branches are formed from spiral arms when the underlying spiral potential is dissolving due to the N-body dynamics. We find that the molecular cloud mass spectrum for the active potential is similar to that for clouds in grand design calculations, depending primarily on the ambient pressure rather than the nature of the potential. The largest molecular clouds occur when spiral arms collide, rather than by agglomeration within a spiral arm.

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