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模拟小型兼并。II。厚圆盘的相空间结构

Simulations of minor mergers. II. The phase-space structure of thick discs

Álvaro Villalobos, Amina Helmi

摘要:

我们分析的相空间结构的模拟厚光盘,是一个显着的合并盘星系和卫星之间的结果。我们的主要目标是确定银河系厚盘合并起源的特征印记。我们发现,厚盘星的空间分布预测是不对称的,似乎与最近的观测银河系厚盘。在太阳附近,吸积恒星的旋转速度会更慢,速度分布会更宽,并且会优先占据视线速度分布的两翼。在我们的厚盘模型中的大多数恒星都具有低偏心率轨道(明确参考预先存在的加热盘),这导致了它们的视线速度作为银河经度的函数的特征(正弦)模式。厚盘星的角动量的z分量提供了一个明确的判别恒星从预先存在的光盘和那些从卫星,特别是在大半径。这些结果是强大的对特定的选择在我们的模拟中的初始条件,从而提供干净的测试盘加热通过一个小合并的情况下形成厚盘。

英文摘要:

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for the Galactic thick disc. We find that the spatial distribution predicted for thick disc stars is asymmetric, seemingly in agreement with recent observations of the Milky Way thick disc. Near the Sun, the accreted stars are expected to rotate more slowly, to have broad velocity distributions, and to occupy preferentially the wings of the line-of-sight velocity distributions. The majority of the stars in our model thick discs have low eccentricity orbits (in clear reference to the pre-existing heated disc) which gives rise to a characteristic (sinusoidal) pattern for their line of sight velocities as function of galactic longitude. The z-component of the angular momentum of thick disc stars provides a clear discriminant between stars from the pre-existing disc and those from the satellite, particularly at large radii. These results are robust against the particular choices of initial conditions made in our simulations, and thus provide clean tests of the disc heating via a minor merger scenario for the formation of thick discs.

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