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Milky Way里有什么?圆盘相对于三轴晕的方位

What's Up in the Milky Way? The Orientation of the Disc Relative to the Triaxial Halo

Victor P. Debattista, Rok Roskar, Monica Valluri, Thomas Quinn, Ben Moore, James Wadsley

摘要:

人马座流的模型一致地发现,银河系盘的方向是这样的,它的短轴沿着三轴暗物质晕的中轴。我们试图建立这样一个“中间轴方向”的盘星系模型。我们用三个模型做这个。在前两种情况下,我们简单地在三轴晕中刚性地生长一个圆盘,使得圆盘垂直于全局中轴。我们还试图通过产生一个气体+暗物质的三轴系统,气体角动量围绕中间轴,同轴形成一个盘。在所有情况下,我们都不能产生这样的系统,即恒星的角动量与晕的中轴保持一致,即使当圆盘的势与内晕平行,使得圆盘在任何地方都垂直于晕的局部短轴。对于这些不稳定的模拟之一,我们表明,潜在的甚至比银河系潜在的人马座流探测区域的模型更圆。我们的结论是,银河系的光盘是非常不可能在中间轴方向。然而,我们发现,一个光盘可以坚持离开一个主平面的潜力。我们提出银河系的圆盘必须相对于暗物质晕的主轴倾斜。直接证实这一预测将构成修正牛顿动力学的一个关键检验。

英文摘要:

Models of the Sagittarius Stream have consistently found that the Milky Way disc is oriented such that its short axis is along the intermediate axis of the triaxial dark matter halo. We attempt to build models of disc galaxies in such an `intermediate-axis orientation'. We do this with three models. In the first two cases we simply rigidly grow a disc in a triaxial halo such that the disc ends up perpendicular to the global intermediate axis. We also attempt to coax a disc to form in an intermediate-axis orientation by producing a gas+dark matter triaxial system with gas angular momentum about the intermediate axis. In all cases we fail to produce systems which remain with stellar angular momentum aligned with the halo's intermediate axis, even when the disc's potential flattens the inner halo such that the disc is everywhere perpendicular to the halo's local minor axis. For one of these unstable simulations we show that the potential is even rounder than the models of the Milky Way potential in the region probed by the Sagittarius Stream. We conclude that the Milky Way's disc is very unlikely to be in an intermediate axis orientation. However we find that a disc can persist off one of the principal planes of the potential. We propose that the disc of the Milky Way must be tilted relative to the principal axes of the dark matter halo. Direct confirmation of this prediction would constitute a critical test of Modified Newtonian Dynamics.

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