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银河系中心年轻恒星盘轨道演化的长期理论

Secular theory of the orbital evolution of the young stellar disc in the Galactic Centre

Jaroslav Haas, Ladislav Subr, David Vokrouhlicky

摘要:

我们研究了一个由N颗相互作用的恒星组成的系统在围绕中心质量的初始圆形轨道上的轨道演化。我们包括一个遥远的轴对称源和一个扩展的球势的微扰影响。特别地,我们关注的情况下,长期的轨道偏心率的演变被抑制的球形扰动。通过标准摄动方法,我们推导出了单个轨道法向量演化的半解析公式。我们发现它有两种性质不同的模式。要么轨道相互作用强烈,在这种情况下,他们成为动态耦合,在轴对称扰动的潜力同步进动。或者,如果它们之间的相互作用较弱,轨道独立进动,周期性地交换它们的角动量,这导致倾角的振荡。我们认为,这些过程可能是基本的光盘的年轻恒星的演化轨道的超大质量黑洞在银河系的中心。

英文摘要:

We investigate the orbital evolution of a system of N mutually interacting stars on initially circular orbits around the dominating central mass. We include perturbative influence of a distant axisymmetric source and an extended spherical potential. In particular, we focus on the case when the secular evolution of orbital eccentricities is suppressed by the spherical perturbation. By means of standard perturbation methods, we derive semi-analytic formulae for the evolution of normal vectors of the individual orbits. We find its two qualitatively different modes. Either the orbits interact strongly and, under such circumstances, they become dynamically coupled, precessing synchronously in the potential of the axisymmetric perturbation. Or, if their mutual interaction is weaker, the orbits precess independently, interchanging periodically their angular momentum, which leads to oscillations of inclinations. We argue that these processes may have been fundamental for the evolution of the disc of young stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way.

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