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自引力气体圆盘中的涡旋

Vortices in self-gravitating gaseous discs

G. R. Mamatsashvili, W. K. M. Rice

摘要:

涡旋被认为在千米大小的微行星的形成中起着重要作用。然而,涡动力学通常在非自引力圆盘中进行研究。这里的主要目标是研究盘自重对涡动力学的影响。为此,我们采用二维自引力剪切片近似。采用了一个简单的冷却规律与恒定的冷却时间,使光盘沉降到一个准稳定的重力湍流状态。在这种状态下,旋涡出现作为瞬态结构经历反复出现的形成阶段,增长到与局部金斯尺度相当的大小,并由于自重力和背景开普勒剪切的综合影响而最终剪切和破坏。每个阶段通常持续约2个轨道周期或更少。因此,在自引力盘中,涡旋演化的整体动力学图像是不规则的,由许多处于不同演化阶段的瞬态涡旋组成,因此,具有不同的尺寸,直到局部Jeans尺度。涡旋在演化过程中产生密度波,密度波变成激波。因此,密度波和涡旋的动力学是耦合的,这意味着,在一般情况下,应该考虑涡旋和螺旋密度波模式,以获得正确的理解自引力盘动力学。我们的研究结果表明,鉴于这种不规则的和快速变化的字符的旋涡演变的自引力盘,它可能是难以有效地捕获尘埃粒子。然而,需要进一步研究嵌入自引力气体圆盘中的尘埃颗粒的行为,以加强这一结论。

英文摘要:

(abridged) Vortices are believed to play a role in the formation of km-sized planetesimals. However, vortex dynamics is commonly studied in non-self-gravitating discs. The main goal here is to examine the effects of disc self-gravity on vortex dynamics. For this purpose, we employ the 2D self-gravitating shearing sheet approximation. A simple cooling law with a constant cooling time is adopted, such that the disc settles down into a quasi-steady gravitoturbulent state. In this state, vortices appear as transient structures undergoing recurring phases of formation, growth to sizes comparable to a local Jeans scale and eventual shearing and destruction due to the combined effects of self-gravity and background Keplerian shear. Each phase typically lasts about 2 orbital periods or less. As a result, in self-gravitating discs the overall dynamical picture of vortex evolution is irregular consisting of many transient vortices at different evolutionary stages and, therefore, with various sizes up to the local Jeans scale. Vortices generate density waves during evolution, which turn into shocks. Therefore, the dynamics of density waves and vortices are coupled implying that, in general, one should consider both vortex and spiral density wave modes in order to get a proper understanding of self-gravitating disc dynamics. Our results suggest that given such an irregular and rapidly varying character of vortex evolution in self-gravitating discs, it may be difficult for such vortices to effectively trap dust particles. Further study of the behaviour of dust particles embedded in a self-gravitating gaseous disc is, however, required to strengthen this conclusion.

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