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引潮力诱发的银河棒的屈曲不稳定性

Buckling instability in tidally induced galactic bars

Ewa L. Lokas

摘要:

在模拟中产生的强星系棒往往会经历一段屈曲不稳定期,这会使它们变弱和变厚,并在它们的中心部分形成一个四方形/花生状结构。这一理论预测已经通过在真实星系中识别这种形态得到证实。然而,这种不稳定性的性质和起源仍然知之甚少,一些研究声称它是由于消防水带不稳定性,而另一些研究则将其与支持酒吧的恒星轨道的垂直不稳定性联系起来。星系棒形成的通道之一是通过盘状星系与显著质量的扰动的相互作用。潮汐诱导的酒吧提供了一个独特的可能性研究屈曲不稳定性,因为它们的形成可以通过改变相互作用的强度,同时保持星系的初始结构相同的控制。我们使用了一组四个模拟的飞越相互作用,其中一个星系的轨道上形成一个酒吧,这是更强的潮汐力。我们通过计算不同的运动学特征来研究它们的屈曲,包括垂直方向上的平均速度分布,以及盘平面外的杆的变形。虽然我们的两个最强的酒吧最强烈的屈曲,有没有直接的关系之间的比例的垂直水平速度色散和酒吧的屈曲的敏感性,所需的消防水龙带不稳定性的解释。虽然我们最弱的酒吧,一个更强的没有,它的分散率仍然很低,它成长为最强的所有在进化结束。相反,我们发现,在屈曲的垂直和径向轨道频率之间的共振变得广泛,因此能够修改恒星轨道在一个显着的半径范围。我们的结论是,垂直轨道不稳定性是更合理的解释屈曲的起源。

英文摘要:

Strong galactic bars produced in simulations tend to undergo a period of buckling instability that weakens and thickens them and forms a boxy/peanut structure in their central parts. This theoretical prediction has been confirmed by identifying such morphologies in real galaxies. The nature and origin of this instability remains however poorly understood with some studies claiming it to be due to fire-hose instability while others relating it to vertical instability of stellar orbits supporting the bar. One of the channels for the formation of galactic bars is via the interaction of disky galaxies with perturbers of significant mass. Tidally induced bars offer a unique possibility of studying buckling instability because their formation can be controlled by changing the strength of the interaction while keeping the initial structure of the galaxy the same. We use a set of four simulations of flyby interactions where a galaxy on a prograde orbit forms a bar, which is stronger for stronger tidal forces. We study their buckling by calculating different kinematic signatures, including profiles of the mean velocity in vertical direction, as well as distortions of the bars out of the disk plane. Although our two strongest bars buckle most strongly, there is no direct relation between the ratio of vertical to horizontal velocity dispersion and the bar's susceptibility to buckling, as required by the fire-hose instability interpretation. While our weakest bar buckles, a stronger one does not, its dispersion ratio remains low and it grows to become the strongest of all at the end of evolution. Instead, we find that during buckling the resonance between the vertical and radial orbital frequencies becomes wide and therefore able to modify stellar orbits over a significant range of radii. We conclude that the vertical orbital instability is the more plausible explanation for the origin of buckling.

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