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具有恒星形成密度阈值的XUV双星系统的模拟

Simulations of XUV Disks with a Star Formation Density Threshold

Stephanie J. Bush, T. J. Cox, Lars Hernquist, David Thilker, Joshua D. Younger

摘要:

盘状星系的外部区域显示出光学和Halpha发射的下降,这表明恒星形成的阈值半径,假设是由于临界表面密度低于恒星形成不会发生。在Halpha的个别星系中已经观察到了超过这个阈值半径的恒星形成的迹象,最近的GALEX调查发现,30%的盘星系的紫外线辐射达到了星系光学半径的2-3倍。我们运行光滑粒子流体动力学模拟的磁盘星系与恒定密度扩展气体盘,以测试是否过密度,由于在外盘的螺旋结构可以重现所观察到的恒星形成。我们确实发现,螺旋密度波从内部磁盘传播到外部气体盘和提高当地的气体区域以上的恒星形成密度阈值,产生类似的功能观察到的。由于恒星形成的数量很低,我们预计在观测到的外盘中几乎看不到光发射。我们的研究结果表明,XUV盘可以简单地模拟通过添加一个扩展的气体盘的表面密度接近阈值密度的孤立星系和发展它与基准恒星形成参数。

英文摘要:

The outer regions of disk galaxies show a drop-off in optical and Halpha emission, suggesting a star formation threshold radius, assumed to owe to a critical surface density below which star formation does not take place. Signs of filamentary star formation beyond this threshold radius have been observed in individual galaxies in the Halpha and recent GALEX surveys have discovered that 30% of disk galaxies show UV emission out to 2-3 times the optical radius of the galaxy. We run smooth particle hydrodynamics simulations of disk galaxies with constant density extended gas disks to test whether over-densities owing to spiral structure in the outer disk can reproduce the observed star formation. We indeed find that spiral density waves from the inner disk propagate into the outer gas disk and raise local gas regions above the star formation density threshold, yielding features similar to those observed. Because the amount of star formation is low, we expect to see little optical emission in outer disks, as observed. Our results indicate that XUV disks can be simulated simply by adding an extended gas disk with a surface density near the threshold density to an isolated galaxy and evolving it with fiducial star formation parameters.

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