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双臂螺旋结构星系恒星速度分布的特殊性

Peculiarities in the stellar velocity distribution of galaxies with a two-armed spiral structure

E. I. Vorobyov, Christian Theis

摘要:

本文通过考虑具有不同整体傅立叶振幅C_2的螺旋形恒星密度波,扩展了我们以前对双臂螺旋星系盘内恒星速度分布特性的数值研究。我们证实了我们以前的结论,即在旋臂外缘附近,恒星速度椭球的最小主轴与最大主轴之比σ_1:σ_2变得异常小。恒星速度椭球被拉长的程度(与轴对称盘的未扰动值相比)随着螺旋密度波的强度而增加。特别地,C_2=0.06螺旋线可使未扰动的σ_1:σ_2值减小20%,而C_2=0.13螺旋线可使未扰动的σ_1:σ_2值减小3倍。异常小的σ_1:σ_2比值可以用来追踪{ \it恒星}螺旋密度波的位置。在旋臂的外缘附近,σ_{rr}:σ_{rr}比具有更复杂的特性,并呈现出不太确定的极小值。我们发现,在旋臂附近,epicpherical近似被破坏,不能用于C_2 >= 0.05-0.06的旋涡星系或旋涡恒星密度波振幅(相对于未扰动背景)为0.1或更大的星系。

英文摘要:

We expand our pervious numerical study of the properties of the stellar velocity distribution within the disk of a two-armed spiral galaxy by considering spiral stellar density waves with different global Fourier amplitudes, C_2. We confirm our previous conclusion that the ratio σ_1:σ_2 of smallest versus largest principal axes of the stellar velocity ellipsoid becomes abnormally small near the outer edges of the stellar spiral arms. The extent to which the stellar velocity ellipsoid is elongated (as compared to the unperturbed value typical for the axisymmetric disk) increases with the strength of the spiral density wave. In particular, the C_2=0.06 spiral can decrease the unperturbed value of σ_1:σ_2 by 20%, while the C_2=0.13 spiral can decrease the unperturbed σ_1:σ_2 by a factor of 3. The abnormally small values of the σ_1:σ_2 ratio can potentially be used to track the position of {\it stellar} spiral density waves. The σ_{ϕϕ}:σ_{rr} ratio is characterized by a more complex behaviour and exhibits less definite minima near the outer edges of the spiral arms. We find that the epicycle approximation is violated near the spiral arms and cannot be used in spiral galaxies with C_2 >= 0.05-0.06 or in galaxies with the amplitude of the spiral stellar density wave (relative to the unperturbed background) of order 0.1 or greater.

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