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动力驱动的银心入流及其对分子云的影响

Dynamically Driven Inflow onto the Galactic Center and its Effect upon Molecular Clouds

H Perry Hatchfield, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Cara Battersby, Rowan J. Smith, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen

摘要:

银河棒在银河系中央分子带(CMZ)的演化中起着关键作用,它通过被称为尘埃带的气流将质量向内推向银河系中心。为了探索CMZ和尘埃带之间的相互作用,我们在AREPO中运行流体动力学模拟,在没有气体自引力和恒星形成物理的情况下模拟银河系棒的潜力,我们使用蒙特卡罗示踪粒子研究质量流。我们估计通过尘埃带的流入的效率,发现只有约三分之一(30 $\pm$ 12%)的尘埃带的质量最初吸积到CMZ,而其余的过冲和吸积后。根据对银河系尘埃带内气体量的观测估计,这表明进入CMZ的真实总流入速率为0.8 $\pm$ 0.6 M $_\odot$~yr $^{-1}$。在这个模拟的CMZ中,云的平均密度在远心附近突然达到峰值,在那里它们与流入的物质发生剧烈碰撞。虽然这些云由于切变而倾向于反向旋转,但由于与流入物质碰撞的动量注入,偶尔会出现同向旋转的云(在44个云样本中,约52%强烈反向旋转,约7%强烈同向旋转)。我们研究了这些云的形成和演化,发现它们是由许多离散的流入事件提供的,即使在CMZ云坍缩并形成恒星时,它们也为CMZ云提供了一致的气体来源

英文摘要:

The Galactic bar plays a critical role in the evolution of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), driving mass inward toward the Galactic Center via gas flows known as dust lanes. To explore the interaction between the CMZ and the dust lanes, we run hydrodynamic simulations in AREPO, modeling the potential of the Milky Way's bar in the absence of gas self-gravity and star formation physics, and we study the flows of mass using Monte Carlo tracer particles. We estimate the efficiency of the inflow via the dust lanes, finding that only about a third (30$\pm$12%) of the dust lanes' mass initially accretes onto the CMZ, while the rest overshoots and accretes later. Given observational estimates of the amount of gas within the Milky Way's dust lanes, this suggests that the true total inflow rate onto the CMZ is 0.8$\pm$0.6 M$_\odot$~yr$^{-1}$. Clouds in this simulated CMZ have sudden peaks in their average density near the apocenter, where they undergo violent collisions with inflowing material. While these clouds tend to counter-rotate due to shear, co-rotating clouds occasionally occur due to the injection of momentum from collisions with inflowing material (~52% are strongly counter-rotating, and ~7% are strongly co-rotating of the 44 cloud sample). We investigate the formation and evolution of these clouds, finding that they are fed by many discrete inflow events, providing a consistent source of gas to CMZ clouds even as they collapse and form stars

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