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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 480, Issue 2, Pages 1912-1924Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1953
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methods: numerical; Galaxy: bulge; globular clusters: general
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- Swinburne
- Australian Government's Education Investment Fund
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We present a numerical study of the effect of an evolving bar on the kinematics of a primordial hot star cluster population in the bulge, as well as on bulge field stars originating within dissolved star clusters. We confirm that an evolving bar is able to transfer a small amount of angular momentum to the star cluster system, in good agreement with observations for Galactic bulge clusters. In the case of a realistic mass model, in which the bar slows down and grows in size, the star cluster escapers evolve in a configuration consistent with that expected for a classical bulge and share comparable kinematic properties with the spheroidal metal-poor component identified within the bulge of the Milky Way. Our results are consistent with a scenario in which the bulge of the Milky Way has a composite nature, with the star clusters belonging and contributing to a primordial pressure-supported component.
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