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一些星系盘为何保持稳定仍令人困惑

The stability of some galaxy disks is still perplexing

J A Sellwood, R G Carlberg

AI总结:

本文通过模拟研究让盘中心动力学变热或削减内盘质量能否抑制棒不稳定性,发现两种策略均无法显著提高盘星系稳定性,反而会引发略有不同的不稳定性并形成强棒。

摘要:

一些盘星系如何避免形成棒的问题仍未解决。许多具有合理性质的星系模型持续表现出剧烈的不稳定性,迅速形成强棒,而目前尚无被广泛接受的观点能够解释一些盘星系如何设法避免这种不稳定性。令人鼓舞的是,近期宇宙学模拟中形成的星系并非全部拥有棒,但这一结果的动力学解释尚不清楚。产生棒的不稳定模式被理解为空腔中的驻波,该驻波在盘中心与共转半径之间反射,并在共转处被放大。本文利用模拟探讨另一种可能抑制反馈回路从而有助于稳定性的思路,即让盘中心在动力学上变热和/或从内盘削减质量,而内盘可能被核球所掩盖。遗憾的是,我们发现在所尝试的模型中,这两种策略对盘的全局稳定性均未产生显著影响。虽然深度密度削减确实阻止了通过中心的反馈,但它们仍会反射入射波,从而引发一种略有不同的不稳定性,并再次导致强棒的形成。

英文摘要:

The problem of how some disk galaxies avoid forming bars remains unsolved. Many galaxy models having reasonable properties continue to manifest vigorous instabilities that rapidly form strong bars and no widely-accepted idea has yet been advanced to account for how some disk galaxies manage to avoid this instability. It is encouraging that not all galaxies formed in recent cosmological simulations possess bars, but the dynamical explanation for this result is unclear. The unstable mode that creates a bar is understood as a standing wave in a cavity that reflects off the disk center and the corotation radius, with amplification at corotation. Here we use simulations to address one further idea that may perhaps inhibit the feedback loop and therefore contribute to stability, which is to make the disk center dynamically hot and/or to taper away mass from the inner disk, which could be masked by a bulge. Unfortunately, we find that neither strategy makes much difference to the global stability of the disk in the models we have tried. While deep density cutouts do indeed prevent feedback through the center, they still reflect incoming waves and thereby provoke a slightly different instability that again leads to a strong bar.

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