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arXiv 2007.13763astro-ph.GAastro-ph.CO
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再论动力摩擦:整体模态和局部尾流的作用

Revisiting dynamical friction: the role of global modes and local wakes

Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn, Pedro R. Capelo, Stelios Kazantzidis, Arif Babul, Douglas Potter

摘要:

在一个较大的系统中,微扰的轨道衰变在许多天体物理系统的动力学中起着关键作用--从星系中的核星团或球状星团,到星系核中的大质量黑洞,再到更大质量星系的暗物质晕中的矮星系卫星。几十年来,已经有各种尝试,以确定潜在的物理和时间尺度的阻力机制,从本地动态摩擦的方法来描述的基础上的背景系统中诱导的全球模式的反作用。我们提出了超高分辨率的$N$体模拟的大规模卫星绕银河系般的星系(与$> 10^8$粒子),似乎捕捉本地的“唤醒”和全球的“模式”在主晕诱导。我们直接从局部和全局扰动的联合作用中解决轨道衰减的机制,并具体分析了大部分扭矩的来源。

英文摘要:

The orbital decay of a perturber within a larger system plays a key role in the dynamics of many astrophysical systems -- from nuclear star clusters or globular clusters in galaxies, to massive black holes in galactic nuclei, to dwarf galaxy satellites within the dark matter halos of more massive galaxies. For many decades, there have been various attempts to determine the underlying physics and time-scales of the drag mechanism, ranging from the local dynamical friction approach to descriptions based on the back-reaction of global modes induced in the background system. We present ultra-high-resolution $N$-body simulations of massive satellites orbiting a Milky Way-like galaxy (with $> 10^8$ particles), that appear to capture both the local "wake" and the global "mode" induced in the primary halo. We address directly the mechanism of orbital decay from the combined action of local and global perturbations and specifically analyze where the bulk of the torque originates.

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