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模拟星系盘中径向和垂直梯度的先天起源

The innate origin of radial and vertical gradients in a simulated galaxy disc

Julio F. Navarro, Cameron Yozin, Nic Loewen, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Azadeh Fattahi, Carlos S. Frenk, Kyle Oman, Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns

摘要:

我们研究了在APOSTLE宇宙学流体动力学模拟中形成的星系盘的恒星组分的年龄/金属丰度的径向和垂直梯度的起源。其中一些梯度类似于银河系中的梯度,它们有时被解释为由于内部演化,例如巨大分子云的散射,螺旋图案驱动的径向迁移,或轨道共振与酒吧。长期的过程在模拟的星系中扮演着次要的角色,它缺乏强烈的螺旋或条形图案,并且这种梯度是由于气体盘的逐渐富集而产生的,气体盘出生时很厚,但当它变成恒星并进入离心平衡时就会变薄。沉降是由年轻恒星的反馈控制的;它联系着恒星的形成、富集和平衡的时间尺度,在气体盘及其后代恒星中引起径向和垂直梯度。同时代恒星的运动学在出生后几乎没有演化,并提供了它们形成时气体盘结构的忠实快照。在这种解释中,年龄-速度色散关系反映的是气盘逐渐变薄,而不是长期轨道散射的重要性;恒星向外的耀斑是气盘耀斑而不是径向迁移的结果;垂直梯度的出现是因为气盘在富集时逐渐变薄。这种径向和垂直趋势可能只是反映了母气体盘的演变特性,而不一定是长期演变过程的结果。

英文摘要:

We examine the origin of radial and vertical gradients in the age/metallicity of the stellar component of a galaxy disc formed in the APOSTLE cosmological hydrody- namical simulations. Some of these gradients resemble those in the Milky Way, where they have sometimes been interpreted as due to internal evolution, such as scattering off giant molecular clouds, radial migration driven by spiral patterns, or orbital reso- nances with a bar. Secular processes play a minor role in the simulated galaxy, which lacks strong spiral or bar patterns, and where such gradients arise as a result of the gradual enrichment of a gaseous disc that is born thick but thins as it turns into stars and settles into centrifugal equilibrium. The settling is controlled by the feedback of young stars; which links the star formation, enrichment, and equilibration timescales, inducing radial and vertical gradients in the gaseous disc and its descendent stars. The kinematics of coeval stars evolve little after birth and provide a faithful snapshot of the gaseous disc structure at the time of their formation. In this interpretation, the age-velocity dispersion relation would reflect the gradual thinning of the disc rather than the importance of secular orbit scattering; the outward flaring of stars would result from the gas disc flare rather than from radial migration; and vertical gradients would arise because the gas disc gradually thinned as it enriched. Such radial and vertical trends might just reflect the evolving properties of the parent gaseous disc, and are not necessarily the result of secular evolutionary processes.

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