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盘星系的年龄速度色散关系和加热历史

Age velocity dispersion relations and heating histories in disc galaxies

Michael Aumer, James Binney, Ralph Schönrich

摘要:

本文分析了生长盘星系N体模拟中非轴对称结构和巨分子云对恒星盘的加热。该分析解决了长期存在的模型和数据之间的差异,证明了区分测得的年龄-速度色散关系(AVR)和组成AVR的恒星加热历史的重要性。我们用与t^beta成比例的公式拟合AVR和加热历史,并确定来自平面和垂直AVR的指数beta_R和beta_z以及来自加热历史的~beta_R和~beta_z。在几乎所有的模拟中,beta_z的值都大于~beta_z的值,而beta_R的值与~beta_R的值相似或略大于~beta_R的值。此外,beta_z(~beta_z)的值通常大于beta_R(~beta_R)的值。这些关系的主要原因是随着圆盘寿命的下降,相对于螺旋结构和棒,GMC作为加热剂的重要性下降。我们研究了太阳邻域调查中的年龄误差和偏差如何影响测得的AVR:它们往往会通过涂抹年龄来降低β值,从而测量色散。我们比较AVR和速度椭球形状sigma_z/sigma_R从模拟到太阳附近的数据。我们的结论是,对于预期的盘质量和暗晕结构,结合GMC和螺旋/酒吧加热可以解释银河系薄盘的AVR。圆盘质量或暗晕结构与预期的强烈偏离破坏了数据的拟合。

英文摘要:

We analyse the heating of stellar discs by non axisymmetric structures and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies. The analysis resolves long-standing discrepancies between models and data by demonstrating the importance of distinguishing between measured age-velocity dispersion relations (AVRs) and the heating histories of the stars that make up the AVR. We fit both AVRs and heating histories with formulae proportional to t^beta and determine the exponents beta_R and beta_z derived from in-plane and vertical AVRs and ~beta_R and ~beta_z from heating histories. Values of beta_z are in almost all simulations larger than values of ~beta_z, whereas values of beta_R are similar to or mildly larger than values of ~beta_R. Moreover, values of beta_z (~beta_z) are generally larger than values of beta_R (~beta_R). The dominant cause of these relations is the decline over the life of the disc in importance of GMCs as heating agents relative to spiral structure and the bar. We examine how age errors and biases in solar neighbourhood surveys influence the measured AVR: they tend to decrease beta values by smearing out ages and thus measured dispersions. We compare AVRs and velocity ellipsoid shapes sigma_z/sigma_R from simulations to Solar neighbourhood data. We conclude that for the expected disc mass and dark halo structure, combined GMC and spiral/bar heating can explain the AVR of the Galactic thin disc. Strong departures of the disc mass or the dark halo structure from expectation spoil fits to the data.

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