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企业如何在合并中生存?

How Do Disks Survive Mergers?

Philip F. Hopkins, Thomas J. Cox, Joshua D. Younger, Lars Hernquist

摘要:

我们开发了一个物理模型,星系盘如何生存和/或被摧毁的相互作用。基于动力学参数,我们表明气体主要损失角动量的内部转矩合并。在某些特征半径内的气体(轨道参数、质量比和合并星系的气体分数的函数),将很快失去角动量,落入中心,并在星暴中被消耗。类似的分析预测了恒星盘的剧烈弛豫在哪里是有效的。我们的模型使我们能够预测恒星和气体的内容,将生存重新形成一个磁盘的残余,而不是被猛烈放松或有助于星暴。我们在流体动力学模拟中对此进行了测试,并发现作为质量比,轨道参数和气体分数的函数的良好协议,在模拟中跨越了广泛的这些属性和其他属性,包括气体物理和反馈的不同处方。在直接的意义上,重新形成的盘的数量可以根据众所周知的引力物理学来理解,独立于ISM气体物理学或反馈的细节。这使我们能够明确量化的要求,这种反馈(间接)使磁盘的生存,通过改变合并前的气体含量和分布。盘破坏的效率是气体含量的强函数:我们展示了如何以及为什么足够富含气体的主要合并可以在一般条件下产生具有小凸起的系统(B/T<0.2)。我们提供处方列入我们的结果在半解析模型。

英文摘要:

We develop a physical model for how galactic disks survive and/or are destroyed in interactions. Based on dynamical arguments, we show gas primarily loses angular momentum to internal torques in a merger. Gas within some characteristic radius (a function of the orbital parameters, mass ratio, and gas fraction of the merging galaxies), will quickly lose angular momentum to the stars sharing the perturbed disk, fall to the center and be consumed in a starburst. A similar analysis predicts where violent relaxation of the stellar disks is efficient. Our model allows us to predict the stellar and gas content that will survive to re-form a disk in the remnant, versus being violently relaxed or contributing to a starburst. We test this in hydrodynamic simulations and find good agreement as a function of mass ratio, orbital parameters, and gas fraction, in simulations spanning a wide range in these properties and others, including different prescriptions for gas physics and feedback. In an immediate sense, the amount of disk that re-forms can be understood in terms of well-understood gravitational physics, independent of details of ISM gas physics or feedback. This allows us to explicitly quantify the requirements for such feedback to (indirectly) enable disk survival, by changing the pre-merger gas content and distribution. The efficiency of disk destruction is a strong function of gas content: we show how and why sufficiently gas-rich major mergers can, under general conditions, yield systems with small bulges (B/T<0.2). We provide prescriptions for inclusion of our results in semi-analytic models.

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