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arXiv 2003.10912astro-ph.GA
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关于银河系的Angular Momentum历史

On the Angular Momentum History of Galactic Disks

Alvio Renzini

摘要:

从红移~2到现在,星系盘的恒星质量、大小和旋转速度都以观测导出的标度关系估算的量增长。这三个量的乘积,即恒星盘的角动量,估计会以一个非常大的因子增长,在~20和~50之间,而其他证据表明增长幅度要小得多。这就要求吸积气体的比角动量应该随着时间的推移而系统地增加,同时在最后10 Gyr的大部分时间里保持与盘的共转。因此,重子气体涡的环星系介质出现在星系演化的一个主要驱动力,本文的目的是吸引注意力的角动量增加的绝对大小和需要探索在何种程度上可以观察到的性质和/或在模拟。

英文摘要:

The stellar mass, size and rotational velocity of galactic disks all grow from redshift ~2 to the present by amounts that are estimated from observationally derived scaling relations. The product of these three quantities, the angular momentum of stellar disks, is then estimated to grow by a remarkably large factor, between ~20 and ~50, whereas other evidences suggest a more moderate increase. This requires that the specific angular momentum of the accreted gas should systematically increase with time while remaining co-rotational with the disk over most of the last ~10 Gyr. Thus, the baryonic gas vorticity of the circumgalactic medium appears to emerge as a major driver in galaxy evolution, and this paper is meant to attract attention on the sheer size of the angular momentum increase and on the need to explore to which extent this can be observed in nature and/or in simulations.

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