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银河系中恒星的速度分布

Stellar Velocity Distribution in Galactic Disks

Christian Theis, Eduard Vorobyov

摘要:

我们目前的数值研究的性质的恒星速度分布在银河系的磁盘已经开发了一个饱和的,双臂螺旋结构。在以前的论文中,我们使用的Boltzmann矩方程(BME)的速度结构的自引力恒星盘的研究,直到第二阶。我们的BME方法的一个关键假设是零热通量近似,即忽略三阶速度项。我们测试了这一假设进行测试粒子模拟恒星在一个磁盘星系受到旋转螺旋扰动。因此,我们证实了定性的复杂的速度结构中发现的BME方法。事实证明,在速度空间中的平衡配置只是缓慢地建立在5 Gyrs或更长的典型时间尺度上。由于星系中的许多动力学过程(如螺旋或棒的生长)作用于较短的时间尺度,纯平衡模型可能不完全适合与局部银河系速度分布等观测进行详细比较。除了4:1共振区(UHR)外,三阶速度矩通常很小,几乎在所有圆盘上都不相关。在UHR附近(归一化)四阶和五阶速度矩仍然与二阶和三阶项具有相同的阶数。因此,在UHR中,高阶项不可忽略。

英文摘要:

We present numerical studies of the properties of the stellar velocity distribution in galactic disks which have developed a saturated, two-armed spiral structure. In previous papers we used the Boltzmann moment equations (BME) up to second order for our studies of the velocity structure in self-gravitating stellar disks. A key assumption of our BME approach is the zero-heat flux approximation, i.e. the neglection of third order velocity terms. We tested this assumption by performing test particle simulations for stars in a disk galaxy subject to a rotating spiral perturbation. As a result we corroborated qualitatively the complex velocity structure found in the BME approach. It turned out that an equilibrium configuration in velocity space is only slowly established on a typical timescale of 5 Gyrs or more. Since many dynamical processes in galaxies (like the growth of spirals or bars)act on shorter timescales, pure equilibrium models might not be fully appropriate for a detailed comparison with observations like the local Galactic velocity distribution. Third order velocity moments were typically small and uncorrelated over almost all of the disk with the exception of the 4:1 resonance region (UHR). Near the UHR (normalized) fourth and fifth order velocity moments are still of the same order as the second and third order terms. Thus, at the UHR higher order terms are not negligible.

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