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盘状矮星破裂和星系晕的形状

Discy dwarf disruption and the shape of the Galactic halo

S. L. J. Gibbons, V. Belokurov, D. Erkal, N. W. Evans

摘要:

原则上,银河系暗晕的形状可以通过模拟银河系晕中的恒星潮汐流来推断。其中最明亮和最长的是人马座流,它延伸到大的银河系中心距离,因此可以对银河系的潜力施加最严格的限制。在这篇文章中,我们重新审视了人马座流是由旋转的祖先形成的想法。我们证明,磁盘的角动量和祖先的轨道角动量之间的角度不保持恒定的整个中断。相反,它经历了一个戏剧性的演变,部分原因是由于祖先的转动惯量张量的变化。我们表明,即使在一个球形的潜力,作为一个盘状的矮破坏的结果产生的流似乎是“旋进”。然而,这个碎片层的进化是虚幻的,因为它仅仅是由祖先圆盘的摇摆和抖动所造成的。因此,流面岁差不是暗晕非球面性的明确指标。

英文摘要:

The shape of the Galactic dark halo can, in principle, be inferred through modelling of stellar tidal streams in the Milky Way halo. The brightest and the longest of these, the Sagittarius stream, reaches out to large Galactocentric distances and hence can deliver the tightest constraints on the Galaxy's potential. In this contribution, we revisit the idea that the Sagittarius Stream was formed from a rotating progenitor. We demonstrate that the angle between the disk's angular momentum and the progenitor's orbital angular momentum does not remain constant throughout the disruption. Instead, it undergoes a dramatic evolution caused, in part, by the changes in the progenitor's moment of inertia tensor. We show that, even in a spherical potential, the streams produced as a result of a disky dwarf disruption appear to be "precessing". Yet, this debris plane evolution is illusory as it is solely caused by the swaying and wobbling of the progenitor's disk. Stream plane precession is therefore not an unambiguous indicator of asphericity of the dark halo.

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