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径向流动对Milky Way盘化学演化的影响

Effects of radial flows on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk

E. Spitoni, F. Matteucci

摘要:

大多数的化学演化模型假设银河系盘是通过气体的注入形成的,并将盘分成几个独立的环,它们之间没有物质交换。然而,如果气体流入是重要的,径向气体流应考虑作为一个动态的结果流入。本文的目的是测试详细的化学演化模型(一次和两次)的银河系盘的下落法和恒星形成率的不同处方径向气体流的效果。我们发现,与气体径向流入的恒定速度的金属丰度梯度趋于陡峭。考虑到一个恒定的时间尺度沿银河系盘和径向流量的下降率与恒定的速度,我们得到了一个太平坦的梯度,在方差与数据,这意味着一个由内而外的形成和/或一个可变的气体流速是必需的。为了再现所观察到的梯度,气体流量的模量应随着银河系中心距离的增加而增加,无论是在一个入口和两个入口模型中。然而,由内而外的磁盘形成加上一个阈值的气体密度(仅在两个入口模型)的恒星形成和/或恒星形成与galactocentric距离的可变效率也可以重现所观察到的梯度没有径向流。我们表明,径向流可以是最重要的过程中再现丰度梯度,但只有可变的气体速度。最后,我们应该考虑到,梯度数据的不确定性使我们无法得出确切的结论。未来更详细的数据将有助于确定径向流是否是银河系盘和一般盘形成和演化的必要成分。

英文摘要:

The majority of chemical evolution models assume that the Galactic disk forms by means of infall of gas and divide the disk into several independent rings without exchange of matter between them. However, if gas infall is important, radial gas flows should be taken into account as a dynamical consequence of infall. The aim of this paper is to test the effect of radial gas flows on detailed chemical evolution models (one-infall and two-infall) for the Milky Way disk with different prescriptions for the infall law and star formation rate. We found, that with a gas radial inflow of constant speed the metallicity gradient tends to steepen. Taking into account a constant time scale for the infall rate along the Galaxy disk and radial flows with a constant speed, we obtained a too flat gradient, at variance with data, implying that an inside-out formation and/or a variable gas flow speed are required. To reproduce the observed gradients the gas flow should increase in modulus with the galactocentric distance, both in the one-infall and two-infall models. However, the inside-out disk formation coupled with a threshold in the gas density (only in the two-infall model) for star formation and/or a variable efficiency of star formation with galactocentric distance can also reproduce the observed gradients without radial flows. We showed that the radial flows can be the most important process in reproducing abundance gradients but only with a variable gas speed. Finally, one should consider that uncertainties in the data concerning gradients prevent us to draw firm conclusions. Future more detailed data will help to ascertain whether the radial flows are a necessary ingredient in the formation and evolution of the Galactic disk and disks in general.

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