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嵌入薄盘生长引起的厚盘演化

Thick-disk evolution induced by the growth of an embedded thin disk

Álvaro Villalobos, Stelios Kazantzidis, Amina Helmi

摘要:

我们进行无碰撞N体模拟研究的结构和运动学性质的模拟厚磁盘的嵌入薄磁盘的增长引起的演变。本研究中使用的厚盘起源于宇宙学上常见的5:1相遇,最初薄的主盘星系和坠落的卫星。不断增长的薄磁盘建模为静态引力势,我们探讨了各种增长磁盘的参数,可能会影响厚磁盘的响应。我们发现,最终的厚盘属性强烈依赖于总质量和径向尺度长度的薄磁盘的增长,其增长的时间尺度和垂直尺度高度以及厚盘旋转的初始意义上的敏感性要小得多。总的来说,一个嵌入的薄磁盘的增长可能会导致在径向和垂直方向上的大幅收缩,导致厚磁盘的规模长度和规模高度显着减少。在运动学上,一个不断增长的薄盘可以引起厚盘恒星的平均旋转和速度色散的显着增加。我们的结论是,通过气体吸积薄盘的改造可能发挥重要作用,在设置厚盘的结构和运动学,因此它是一个重要的组成部分厚盘形成的模型。

英文摘要:

We perform collisionless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of the structural and kinematical properties of simulated thick disks induced by the growth of an embedded thin disk. The thick disks used in the present study originate from cosmologically-common 5:1 encounters between initially-thin primary disk galaxies and infalling satellites. The growing thin disks are modeled as static gravitational potentials and we explore a variety of growing-disk parameters that are likely to influence the response of thick disks. We find that the final thick-disk properties depend strongly on the total mass and radial scale-length of the growing thin disk, and much less sensitively on its growth timescale and vertical scale-height as well as the initial sense of thick-disk rotation. Overall, the growth of an embedded thin disk can cause a substantial contraction in both the radial and vertical direction, resulting in a significant decrease in the scale-lengths and scale-heights of thick disks. Kinematically, a growing thin disk can induce a notable increase in the mean rotation and velocity dispersions of thick-disk stars. We conclude that the reformation of a thin disk via gas accretion may play a significant role in setting the structure and kinematics of thick disks, and thus it is an important ingredient in models of thick-disk formation.

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