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三轴晕中的星系弯曲

Galactic Warps in Triaxial Halos

Myoungwon Jeon, Sungsoo S. Kim, Hong Bae Ann

摘要:

我们研究的行为银河磁盘在三轴晕数值和分析,看看是否可以激发和维持翘曲在三轴潜力。我们考虑以下两种情况:1)最初相对于晕的赤道平面倾斜的星系盘(出于教学目的),和2)相对于盘和晕的赤道平面倾斜的暗物质下落。通过对100,000个圆盘粒子在固定的晕势中的数值模拟,我们发现在三轴晕中,扭曲可以像球形或轴对称晕一样被激发和维持,但它们表现出一些振荡行为,如果晕具有类似长轴的三轴性,甚至可以转化为极环系统。晕的非轴对称分量使盘章动,盘内外部分之间的差分章动通常使翘曲的幅度略有减小和波动。我们还发现,在扁圆和扁圆状的三轴晕中,翘曲相对较弱,并且由于这些晕是由宇宙学模拟推断的盘星系的晕配置,我们的结果与大多数观察到的翘曲相当弱的事实是一致的。我们推导出了三轴晕和暗物质环面对盘施加的力矩的近似公式,并利用这些公式成功地描述了盘在模拟中的行为。推导这些公式所使用的技术可应用于具有更复杂结构的真实晕。

英文摘要:

We study the behaviors of galactic disks in triaxial halos both numerically and analytically to see if warps can be excited and sustained in triaxial potentials. We consider the following two scenarios: 1) galactic disks that are initially tilted relative to the equatorial plane of the halo (for a pedagogical purpose), and 2) tilted infall of dark matter relative to the equatorial plane of the disk and the halo. With numerical simulations of 100,000 disk particles in a fixed halo potential, we find that in triaxial halos, warps can be excited and sustained just as in spherical or axisymmetric halos but they show some oscillatory behaviors and even can be transformed to a polar-ring system if the halo has a prolate-like triaxiality. The non-axisymmetric component of the halo causes the disk to nutate, and the differential nutation between the inner and outer parts of the disk generally makes the magnitude of the warp slightly diminish and fluctuate. We also find that warps are relatively weaker in oblate and oblate-like triaxial halos, and since these halos are the halo configurations of disk galaxies inferred by cosmological simulations, our results are consistent with the fact that most of the observed warps are quite weak. We derive approximate formulae for the torques exerted on the disk by the triaxial halo and the dark matter torus, and with these formulae we successfully describe the behaviors of the disks in our simulations. The techniques used in deriving these formulae could be applied for realistic halos with more complex structures.

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