We have applied the Tremaine-Weinberg method to 10 late-type barred spiral galaxies using data cubes, in H-alpha emission, from the GHAFAS and FANTOMM Fabry-Perot spectrometers. We have combined the derived bar (and/or spiral) pattern speeds with angular frequency plots to measure the corotation radii for the bars in these galaxies. We base our results on a combination of this method with a morphological analysis designed to estimate the corotation radius to bar-length ratio using two independent techniques on archival near infrared images, and although we are aware of the limitation of the application of the Tremaine-Weinberg method using ionised gas observations, we find consistently excellent agreement between bar and spiral arm parameters derived using different methods. In general, the corotation radius, measured using the Tremaine-Weinberg method, is closely related to the bar length, measured independently from photometry and consistent with previous studies. Our corotation/bar-length ratios and pattern speed values are in good agreement with general results from numerical simulations of bars. In systems with identified secondary bars, we measure higher H-alpha velocity dispersion in the circumnuclear regions, whereas in all the other galaxies, we detect flat velocity dispersion profiles. The excellent agreement between the Tremaine-Weinberg method results and the morphological analysis and bar parameters in numerical simulations, suggests that although the H-alpha emitting gas does not obey the continuity equation, it can be used to derive the bar pattern speed.
最近,Buta et al.(2009)研究了这个问题“做酒吧驱动螺旋密度波?”,这一观点得到了理论研究的支持,也来自于Block et al(2004)的初步观察分析。他们用深AAT K_s波段图像估算了23个星系的最大棒状强度Q_b、最大螺旋强度Q_s和最大m=2臂对比度A_2s。这些数据与先前发表的OSUBSGS样本中147个星系的Q_b和Q_s值以及Block et al(2004)的12个星系的Q_b和Q_s值相结合。对于组合样本,Q_b与Q_s之间的相关性较弱,而AAT子集单独显示Q_b与Q_s之间无显著相关性,Q_b与A_2s之间也无显著相关性。在Durbala等人中获得了类似的阴性结果。(2009)46个星系。根据这些研究,上述问题的答案仍然不确定。在这里,我们使用一种新的方法,并表明,虽然最大酒吧和螺旋参数之间的相关性很弱,这些参数相关时,比较本地。对于OSUBSGS样本的统计学显着的相关性被发现之间的局部螺旋振幅,并迫使由于酒吧的潜力在相同的距离,出1.6酒吧半径(典型的酒吧扰动,然后是百分之几的顺序)。此外,对于23个AAT星系的样本,我们发现一个显着的相关性的本地参数到1.4酒吧半径。我们的新结果证实,至少在统计意义上,酒吧确实驱动螺旋密度波。
The two-phase formation history of spiral galaxies traced by the cosmic evolution of the bar fraction
我们研究了星系棒的演化和与磁盘和球体形成的放大宇宙学模拟的样本中的链接。我们的模拟样本集中在现今恒星质量在10^10-10^11兆太阳范围内的星系,在场和松散的群环境中,具有各种各样的质量增长历史。在我们的模型中,在z>1.5时,现在螺旋的祖先几乎不存在条形,它们仍然很罕见,而且通常太弱而无法观察到z~1。在这一特征时期之后,可观测到的强条的比例迅速上升,80%的旋涡星系中存在条,其中三分之二在z<0.5时很容易观测到。这与观测到的棒分数的红移演化是定量一致的。我们的模型预测,随着红移的增加,酒吧分数的减少应该继续与可观察到的酒吧1的分数<10-15% in disk galaxies at z>。我们的模型还预测了较低质量星系中稍后的酒吧形成,与现有数据一致。我们发现,酒吧形成的特征时代,即红移z~0.8-1,对应的时代,今天的螺旋获得其磁盘为主的形态。在更高的红移,盘倾向于被合并和引力不稳定性迅速破坏,很少发展出明显的棒。棒形成时期对应于螺旋星系形成的早期“剧烈”阶段(z>1)和晚期“长期”阶段(z<0.8)之间的过渡。在长期阶段,酒吧的存在大大有助于增长的隆起,但隆起的质量预算仍然占主导地位的合并,相互作用和磁盘的不稳定性在高红移的贡献。z>1时的早期棒通常是短暂的,而z<1时形成的大多数棒一直持续到z=0,晚期宇宙学气体的注入是维持其中一些棒的必要条…