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arXiv 2002.10559astro-ph.GA
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棒星系的核环是在自转曲线的剪切最小值处形成的吗?

Do nuclear rings in barred galaxies form at the shear minimum of the rotation curve?

Mattia C. Sormani, Zhi Li

摘要:

最近有人提出:(i)棒星系(包括我们的银河系)的核环形成在旋转曲线的剪切参数达到最小值的半径处;(ii)Montenegro等人的声学不稳定性是导致棒星系中心区域湍流和角动量输运的原因。在这里,我们测试这些建议,通过运行简单的流体动力学模拟在对数禁止潜在的。由于这个势的旋转曲线是无标度的,剪切最小理论预测不应该形成环。我们发现,与此预测相反,在模拟中确实形成了一个环,其形态与真实棒星系中的核环一致。这证明了剪切最小值的存在不是形成环的必要条件。我们还发现,被预测为声学不稳定的扰动风,并最终传播到无穷远,使系统实际上是稳定的。我们的结论是:(i)剪切最小理论是一个不太可能的机制,在棒星系的核环的形成;(ii)声不稳定性是一个虚假的结果,可能无法驱动湍流的星际介质,至少在没有自引力的情况下。湍流粘性的作用问题仍然没有解决。

英文摘要:

It has been recently suggested that (i) nuclear rings in barred galaxies (including our own Milky Way) form at the radius where the shear parameter of the rotation curve reaches a minimum; (ii) the acoustic instability of Montenegro et al. is responsible for driving the turbulence and angular momentum transport in the central regions of barred galaxies. Here we test these suggestions by running simple hydrodynamical simulations in a logarithmic barred potential. Since the rotation curve of this potential is scale-free, the shear minimum theory predicts that no ring should form. We find that in contrast to this prediction, a ring does form in the simulation, with morphology consistent with that of nuclear rings in real barred galaxies. This proves that the presence of a shear-minimum is not a necessary condition for the formation of a ring. We also find that perturbations that are predicted to be acoustically unstable wind up and eventually propagate off to infinity, so that the system is actually stable. We conclude that (i) the shear-minimum theory is an unlikely mechanism for the formation of nuclear rings in barred galaxies; (ii) the acoustic instability is a spurious result and may not be able to drive turbulence in the interstellar medium, at least for the case without self-gravity. The question of the role of turbulent viscosity remains open.

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