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arXiv 2006.06708astro-ph.GA
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Milky Way球状星团自转轴排列的发现

Discovery of rotation axis alignments in Milky Way globular clusters

Andrés E. Piatti

摘要:

近年来越来越多的观测结果表明,某些球状星团在绕银河系中心运行的轨道上表现出内旋现象。基于这些发现,我们寻找球状星团的轨道相对于银河系平面的倾角与它们的自转倾角之间的任何关系。我们发现相对倾角,在旋转轴倾角-轨道轴倾角的意义上,是球状星团轨道倾角的函数。旋转轴和轨道轴对准,倾角为~ 56度,而旋转轴倾角远离轨道倾角,在~ 20度和-20度之间,后者从0度增加到90度。我们进一步研究了这种线性关系的起源,发现与球状星团轨道的半长轴和偏心率无关,也与内部旋转强度、球状星团的大小、实际质量和潮汐扰动质量、半质量弛豫时间等无关。揭示的关系将影响到球状星团内旋转的数值模拟的发展,我们对球状星团与银河系引力场的相互作用的理解,并对观测活动,以增加研究的球状星团检测到内旋转的数量。

英文摘要:

There is an increasing number of recent observational results which show that some globular clusters exhibit internal rotation while they travel along their orbital trajectories around the Milky Way center. Based on these findings, we looked for any relationship between the inclination angles of the globular clusters' orbits with respect to the Milky Way plane and those of their rotation. We discovered that the relative inclination, in the sense rotation axis inclination - orbit axis inclination, is a function of the globular cluster's orbit inclination. Rotation and orbit axes are aligned for an inclination of ~ 56deg, while the rotation axis inclination is far from the orbit's one between ~ 20deg and -20deg when the latter increases from 0deg up to 90deg. We further investigated the origin of such a linear relationship and found no correlation with the semimajor axes and eccentricities of the globular clusters' orbits, nor with the internal rotation strength, the globular clusters' sizes, actual and tidally disrupted masses, half-mass relaxation times, among others. The uncovered relationship will impact on the development of numerical simulations of the internal rotation of globular clusters, on our understanding about the interaction of the globular clusters with the Milky Way gravitational field, and on the observational campaigns for increasing the number of studied globular clusters with detected internal rotation.

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