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螺旋半导体中光分布的成因

The Origin of the Light Distribution in Spiral Galaxies

Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez, Stephanie Courty, Brad Gibson, Christopher Brook

摘要:

我们分析了一个高分辨率,完全宇宙学,流体动力学盘星系模拟,研究在许多恒星盘中看到的双指数光剖面的来源,以及恒星径向迁移对盘年龄和金属丰度分布的时空演化的影响。我们发现一个“休息”的纯指数恒星表面亮度分布,并追溯其起源急剧下降,每单位表面积的恒星形成,本身产生的气体体积密度减少,由于翘曲的气体盘。星盘中的恒星形成在中场休息后仍在继续。我们发现,在蓝色波段的突破是更明显的。相比之下,我们发现在质量密度分布中很少或没有中断。这在一定程度上是由于恒星向圆盘外部的净径向迁移。在破裂半径之外,我们发现约60%的常驻恒星从内盘迁移,而约25%的恒星在原位形成。我们模拟的星系在破裂半径处的年龄分布也有一个最小值,但与以前的一些研究不一致,迁移不是产生这种形状的主要机制。在我们的模拟中,盘金属丰度梯度随时间变化,与“由内而外”的形成情景一致。我们没有发现任何不同的强度或位置的休息与倾斜,这表明,也许在实证研究中发现的差异是由尘埃灭绝。

英文摘要:

We analyse a high-resolution, fully cosmological, hydrodynamical disc galaxy simulation, to study the source of the double-exponential light profiles seen in many stellar discs, and the effects of stellar radial migration upon the spatio-temporal evolution of both the disc age and metallicity distributions. We find a "break" in the pure exponential stellar surface brightness profile, and trace its origin to a sharp decrease in the star formation per unit surface area, itself produced by a decrease in the gas volume density due to a warping of the gas disc. Star formation in the disc continues well beyond the break. We find that the break is more pronounced in bluer wavebands. By contrast, we find little or no break in the mass density profile. This is, in part, due to the net radial migration of stars towards the external parts of the disc. Beyond the break radius, we find that ~60% of the resident stars migrated from the inner disc, while ~25% formed in situ. Our simulated galaxy also has a minimum in the age profile at the break radius but, in disagreement with some previous studies, migration is not the main mechanism producing this shape. In our simulation, the disc metallicity gradient flattens with time, consistent with an "inside-out" formation scenario. We do not find any difference in the intensity or the position of the break with inclination, suggesting that perhaps the differences found in empirical studies are driven by dust extinction.

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