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Markus Samland 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,284(2):841-844
I present a model for the formation and evolution of a massive disk galaxy, within a growing dark halo whose mass evolves
according to cosmological simulations of structure formation. The galactic evolution is simulated with a new three-dimensional
chemo-dynamical code, including dark matter, stars and a multi-phase ISM. We follow the evolution from redshift z= 4.85 until the present epoch. The energy release by massive stars and supernovae prevents a rapid collapse of the baryonic
matter and delays the maximum star formation until redshift z ≈ 1. The galaxy forms radially from inside-out and vertically from top-to-bottom. Correspondingly, the inner halo is the
oldest component, followed by the outer halo, the bar/bulge, the thick and the thin disk. The bulge in the model consists
of at least two stellar subpopulations, an early collapse population and a population that formed later in the bar.
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We have investigated the gas and stellar kinematics and the stellar population properties at the center of the early-type galaxy NGC 4245 with a large-scale bar by the method of two-dimensional spectroscopy. The galaxy has been found to possess a pronounced chemically decoupled compact stellar nucleus, which is at least a factor of 2.5 richer in metals than the stellar population of the bulge, and a ring of young stars with a radius of 300 pc. Star formation goes on in the ring even now; its location corresponds to the inner Lindblad resonance of the large-scale bar. According to Hubble Space Telescope data, the mean stellar age in the chemically decoupled nucleus is significantly younger than that within 0″.25 of the center. It may be concluded that we take the former ultracompact star formation ring with a radius of no more than 100 pc located at the inner Lindblad resonance of the now disappeared nuclear bar as the chemically decoupled nucleus. On the whole, the picture of star formation at the center of this gas-poor galaxy is consistent with theoretical predictions of the consequences of the secular evolution of a stellar-gaseous disk under the action of a bar or bars. 相似文献
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Gerard Gilmore 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1999,267(1-4):109-117
Correlations between stellar kinematics and chemical abundances are fossil evidence for evolutionary connections between Galactic structural components. Extensive stellar surveys show that the only tolerably clear distinction between galactic components appears in the distributions of specific angular momentum. Here the stellar metal-poor halo and the metal-rich bulge are indistinguishable from each other, as are the thick disk and the old disk. Each pair is very distinct from the other. This leads to an evolutionary model in which the metal-poor stellar halo evolves into the inner bulge, while the thick disk is a precursor to the thin disk. These evolutionary sequences are distinct. The galaxy is made of two discrete 'populations', one of low and one of high angular momentum. Some (minor?) complexity is added to this picture by the debris of late and continuing mergers, which will be especially important in the outer stellar halo. 相似文献
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The purpose of our work is to strongly constrain the mass to light ratio in the disk of the flocculent isolated Sc type spiral
NGC 4414 using a combined high resolution interferometric CO(1-0) and HI rotation curve, and deep HST B-V-I images of the
galaxy. To identify the mass contributions of the visible – stellar and gaseous – components, we observed the rotation curve
with high resolution in the optical disk. The M/L ratios we derive are low, about 1.5 in I band and 0.5 in K' band. The B
and V band M/L ratios vary greatly due to absorption by dust, reaching 4 in the molecular ring and decreasing to about 1.6
–1.8 at larger radii. This unequivocally shows that models, like most maximum disk models, assuming constant M/L ratios in
an optical waveband, simply are not appropriate. We illustrate this by making mock maximum disk models with a constant V band
M/L ratio. The key is having the central light distribution unobscured such that it can be used to trace the mass. The K'
band M/L ratio is virtually constant over the disk, suggesting that the intrinsic (unobscured) stellar M/L ratio is roughly
constant. We use our knowledge of the visible mass distribution to test disk and halo dark matter models. Fitting an NFW (Navarro
et al., 1996) halo to the rotation curve suggests that NGC 4414 is in a low mass concentrated halo typical of small galaxies
and early halo formation times.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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R. Silvotti A. Bonanno A. Frasca S. Bernabei R. Janulis R. Østensen S.-L. Kim B.-G. Park J. Xiaojun J. Guo Z. Liu M.D. Reed R.S. Patterson K.M. Gietzen P.J. Clark G.W. Wolf Y. Lipkin L. Formiggini E. Leibowitz T.D. Oswalt M. Rudkin K. Johnston 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,289(3-4):445-448
I present a model for the formation and evolution of a massive disk galaxy, within a growing dark halo whose mass evolves according to cosmological simulations of structure formation. The galactic evolution is simulated with a new 3D chemo-dynamical code, including dark matter, stars and a multi-phase ISM. We follow the evolution from redshift z = 4.85 until the present epoch. The energy release by massive stars and supernovae prevents a rapid collapse of the baryonic matter and delays the maximum star formation until redshift z ≈ 1. The galaxy forms radially from inside-out and vertically from top-to-bottom. The feedback of stars leads to turbulent motions and large-scale flows in the ISM. As one result the galactic disk is significantly enriched by chemical elements synthesized in bulge stars. 相似文献
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Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck Igor O. Drozdovsky Michèle Belfort Ulrich Hopp 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,284(2):909-912
Formation paradigms for massive galaxies have long centered around two antipodal hypotheses – the monolithic-collapse and
the accretion/merger scenarios. Empirical data on the stellar contents of galaxy halos is crucial in order to develop galaxy
formation and assembly scenarios which have their root in observations, rather than in numerical simulations. The Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) has enabled us to study directly individual stars in the nearby E/S0 galaxies Cen A, NGC 3115, NGC 5102, and
NGC 404. We here present and discuss HST single-star photometry in V and I bands. Using color-magnitude diagrams and stellar
luminosity functions, we gauge the galaxies' stellar contents. This can be done at more than one position in the halo, but
data with deeper limiting magnitudes are desired to quantify the variation of metallicity with galactocentric radius. We here
compare the color distributions of red giant stars with stellar isochrones, and we intercompare the galaxies' halo populations,
noting that their total absolute V magnitudes cover the range from about –21.5 to –17.5. In the future, we plan to model the
stellar metallicity distributions with the aim to constrain chemical enrichment scenarios, a step towards unravelling the
evolutionary history of elliptical and lenticular galaxies.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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M. J. Valtonen L. Valtaoja B. Sundelius K. J. Donner G. G. Byrd 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1990,48(2):95-113
In a previous paper, we have studied dynamical friction during a parabolic passage of a companion galaxy past a disk galaxy. This paper continues with the study of satellites in circular orbits around the disk galaxy. Simulations of orbit decay in a self gravitating disk are compared with estimates based on two-body scattering theories; the theories are found to give a satisfactory explanation of the orbital changes. The disk friction is strongly dependent on the sense of rotation of the companion relative to the rotation of the disk galaxy as well as on the amount of mass in a spherical halo. The greatest amount of dynamical friction occurs in direct motion if no spherical halo is present. Then the infall time from the edge of the disk is about one half of the orbital period of the disk edge. A halo twice as massive as the disk increases the infall time four fold. The results of Quinn and Goodman, obtained with a non-self-gravitating method, agree well with our experiments with massive halos (Q
0 1.5), but are not usable in a more general case. We give analytic expressions for calculating the disk friction in galaxies of different disk/halo mass ratios. 相似文献
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Peter Berczik Gerhard Hensler Christian Theis Rainer Spurzem 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2002,281(1-2):297-300
We present our recently developed 3-dimensional chemodynamical code for galaxy evolution. This code follows the evolution
of different galactic components like stars, dark matter and different components of the interstellar medium (ISM), i.e. a
diffuse gaseous phase and the molecular clouds. Stars and dark matter are treated as collisionless N-body systems. The ISM
is numerically described by a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) approach for the diffuse gas and a sticky particle scheme
for the molecular clouds. Additionally, the galactic components are coupled by several phase transitions like star formation,
stellar death or condensation and evaporation processes within the ISM. As an example we show the dynamical and chemical evolution
of a star forming dwarf galaxy with a total baryonic mass of 2 ċ 109 M⊙. After a moderate collapse phase the stars and the molecular clouds follow an exponential radial distribution, whereas the
diffuse gas shows a central depression as a result of stellar feedback. The metallicities of the galactic components behave
quite differently with respect to their temporal evolution as well as their radial distribution. Especially, the ISM is at
no stage well mixed.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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河外旋涡星系外区普遍存在翘曲结构,其特征可用干翘曲参数来描述,包括翘曲角、翘曲半径、不对称度等。一些翘曲星系表已相继发表,并用于相关的统计分析。关于翘曲盘的形成已提出多种理论机制,如星系间的潮汐相互作用、星系际介质的吸积、盘与暗晕的角动量错向以及星系际磁场的作用等。 相似文献
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O. A. Merkulova L. V. Shalyapina V. A. Yakovleva G. M. Karataeva 《Astronomy Letters》2008,34(8):542-550
We present the results of our study of the stellar kinematics in the elliptical galaxy UGC 5119, which has previously been suspected to be a polar-ring galaxy. We have detected a rapidly rotating disk in the central region (r ≤ 3.2 kpc) of the galaxy’s main body and found a radial velocity gradient along its minor axis (in the putative ring). We conclude that UGC 5119 is a medium-luminosity elliptical galaxy with a rapidly rotating disk component and a stellar (probably polar) ring. We have calculated the Lick indices of the Hβ, Mggb, Fe 5270, and Fe 5335 absorption lines and compared them with evolutionary synthesis models. Differences in the [Mg/Fe] ratios, metallicities, and ages of the stars have been found: the young stellar population with a solar [Mg/Fe] ratio and a high metallicity dominates in the circumnuclear region (r ≤ 1 kpc), while the old one with a low metal abundance dominates in the ring. 相似文献
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Rosemary F. G. Wyse 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,293(4):429-433
The colours of stellar bulges and of inner stellar discs are comparable, and consistent with rather similar mean metallicities and ages. Indeed, the mean chemical abundances of the Milky Way bulge and old disc are approximately equal. Further, the scalelengths of discs and bulges are correlated. These observations imply a close relationship between discs and bulges, and may support models in which stellar bulges form from stellar discs. The present paper discusses constraints on this scenario from the stellar phase-space density of bulges and of discs. Phase-space density cannot increase in the absence of collisional processes. We show here that the maximum phase-space density of galactic bulges is higher than that of inner discs, arguing that instabilities of purely stellar discs cannot form bulges. Rather, the high densities of bulges probably reflect gaseous dissipation. Gas inflow from the disc would complicate the interpretation of the similarities in stellar colours between discs and bulges. Gas inflow from the stellar halo, if one exists, may be favoured on angular momentum grounds, but this means of formation of the bulge would provide no explanation for the relationships between disc and bulge in any one galaxy. At least in the Milky Way, the metallicity distribution of the bulge is not consistent with the bulge being built up from the dense regions of accreted satellite galaxies and/or globular clusters. 相似文献
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Jesper Sommer-Larsen Martin Götz Laura Portinari 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2002,281(1-2):519-524
We have performed TreeSPH simulations of galaxy formation in a standard ΛCDM cosmology, including effects of star formation,
energetic stellar feedback processes and a meta-galactic UV field, and obtain a mix of disk, lenticular and elliptical galaxies.
The disk galaxies are deficient in angular momentum by only about a factor of two compared to observed disk galaxies. The
stellar disks have approximately exponential surface density profiles, and those of the bulges range from exponential to r
1/4, as observed. The bulge-to-disk ratios of the disk galaxies are consistent with observations and likewise are their integrated
B-V colours, which have been calculated using stellar population synthesis techniques. Furthermore, we can match the observed
I-band Tully-Fisher (TF) relation, provided that the mass-to-light ratio of disk galaxies is (M/L
I) ≃ 0.6–0.7. The ellipticals and lenticulars have approximately r
1/4 stellar surface density profiles, are dominated by non-disklike kinematics and flattened due to non-isotropic stellar velocity
distributions, again consistent with observations.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Cristina Chiappini 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2002,281(1-2):253-256
According to the two-infall model for the chemical evolution of the Galaxy the halo and bulge formed on a relatively short
timescale (0.8–1.0 Gyr) out of the first infall episode, whereas the disk accumulated much more slowly and ‘inside-out’ during
a second independent infall episode. We explored the effects of a threshold in the star formation process, during both the
halo and disk phases. In the comparison between model predictions and available data, we have focused our attention on abundance
gradients as well as gas, stellar and star formation rate distributions along the disk. We suggest that the mechanism for
the formation of the halo leaves detectable imprints on the chemical properties of the outer regions of the disk, whereas
the evolution of the halo and the inner disk are almost completely disentangled. This is due to the fact that the halo and
disk densities are comparable at large Galactocentric distances and therefore the gas lost from the halo can substantially
contribute to building up the outer disk. We predict that the abundance gradients along the Galactic disk have increased in
time during the first billion years of the disk evolution and remained almost constant in the last ~5Gyrs.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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《New Astronomy》2002,7(7):395-433
The stellar initial mass function at high redshift is an important defining property of the first stellar systems to form and may also play a role in various dark matter problems. We here determine the faint stellar luminosity function in an apparently dark-matter-dominated external galaxy in which the stars formed at high redshift. The Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy is a system with a particularly simple stellar population—all of the stars being old and metal-poor—similar to that of a classical halo globular cluster. A direct comparison of the faint luminosity functions of the UMi dSph and of similar metallicity, old globular clusters is equivalent to a comparison of the initial mass functions and is presented here, based on deep HST WFPC2 and STIS imaging data. We find that these luminosity functions are indistinguishable, down to a luminosity corresponding to ∼0.3 M⊙. Our results show that the low-mass stellar IMF for stars that formed at very high redshift is apparently invariant across environments as diverse as those of an extremely low-surface-brightness, dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy and a dark-matter-free, high-density globular cluster within the Milky Way. 相似文献
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The present-day chemical and dynamical properties of the Milky Way are signatures of the Galaxy's formation and evolution.
Using a self consistent chemodynamical evolution code we examine these properties within the currently favoured paradigm for
galaxy formation – hierarchical clustering within a CDM cosmology. Our Tree N-body/Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code includes
a self-consistent treatment of gravity, hydrodynamics, radiative cooling, star formation, supernova feedback and chemical
enrichment. Two models are described which explore the role of small-scale density perturbations in driving the evolution
of structure within the Milky Way. The relationship between metallicity and kinematics of halo stars are quantified and the
implications for galaxy formation discussed. While high-eccentricity halo stars have previously been considered a signature
of `rapid collapse', we suggest that many such stars may have come from recently accreted satellites.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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《New Astronomy》2007,12(1):11-19
We present a dynamical model for an active galaxy. Our model is a mass model with a disk, nucleus, and halo components. Numerical calculations and theoretical evidence show, that for a fixed value of mass of the galaxy the stellar velocities in the central region decrease as the mass of halo increases. Furthermore, the motion tends to be regular while, when the halo component is absent, the majority of orbits are chaotic. The dynamical evolution of the system is also studied when mass is transported from the halo to the disk and the nucleus. Our results are compared to the recently obtained observation data for active galaxies. 相似文献
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Pierre Ocvirk Ariane Lançon Christophe Pichon Philippe Prugniel Damien Le Borgne Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange Michel Fioc Caroline Soubiran Eric Thiébaut 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,284(2):933-936
We present inversion techniques which aim at recovering the composite nature and the kinematics of a stellar population from
its high resolution absorption line spectrum. The originality of the combined inversion is its potential to recover both the
stellar content and the kinematics simultaneously. These techniques use new synthetic high resolution spectra produced by
PéGASE and minimization algorithms. We apply them to mock data representing the bulge and disk population of the inner region
of spiral galaxies.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Results of spectroscopic and photometric studies for the locally isolated lenticular galaxy NGC 4124 are presented. A model of the mass distribution consistent with photometric data has been constructed on the basis of a kinematic analysis. In this model, the halo mass within the optical radius is almost half the diskmass. The disk is shown to be in a dynamical state close to amarginally stable one. This rules out dynamical disk heating for the galaxy through a strong external action or a merger with a massive system. However, the presence of a gaseous disk inclined to the main plane of the galaxy in the central kiloparsec region suggests probable cannibalization of a small satellite that also produced a late starburst in the central region. This is confirmed by the younger mean age (～2 Gyr) of the stellar population in the galaxy’s central region than the disk age (5–7 Gyr). 相似文献