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在大麦云云中偏心棒的形成:与暗卫星的碰撞?

Formation of the off-center bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A collision with a dark satellite ?

Kenji Bekki

摘要:

最近基于深近红外南天巡天(DENIS)和2微米全天巡天(2MASS)对大麦云(LMC)结构特性的观测表明,即使在较老的恒星星族中,LMC也存在偏心棒。以前的动力学模型包括大麦哲伦星云、小麦哲伦星云(SMC)和银河系之间的潮汐相互作用,但是,并没有很好地再现旧的偏心棒。我们在这里表明,如果带有已经存在的棒的大麦哲伦星系能够与质量为5 * 10^8 M_sun的低质量银河系次晕(大致相当于大麦哲伦星系质量的百分之几)碰撞,则可以形成偏心棒。碰撞后的模拟恒星分布似乎显示出“偏离中心的棒”,不是因为棒的中心显著偏离LMC的动力学中心,而是因为盘的基本恒星分布相对于棒的中心显著不对称。我们讨论是否偏离中心的酒吧中观察到的麦哲伦型矮星系可以形成作为一个结果的潮汐相互作用与低质量的晕没有或很少的可见物质。

英文摘要:

Recent observations on structural properties of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on the Deep Near-Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DENIS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) have revealed that the LMC has an off-center bar even in the older stellar populations. Previous dynamical models including tidal interaction between the LMC, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the Galaxy, however, did not reproduce so well the older off-center bar. We here show that the off-center bar can be formed if the LMC with an already existing bar can collide with a low-mass Galactic subhalo as massive as 5 * 10^8 M_sun (corresponding roughly to a few % of the LMC mass). The simulated stellar distribution after the collision appears to show an ``off-center bar'', not because the center of the bar significantly deviates from the dynamical center of the LMC, but because the underlying stellar distribution of the disk is significantly asymmetric with respect to the center of the bar. We discuss whether off-center bars observed in Magellanic-type dwarf galaxies can be formed as a result of tidal interaction with low-mass halos with no or little visible matters.

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