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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 478, Issue 3, Pages 4052-4067Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1297
Keywords
chaos; diffusion; methods: numerical; Galaxy: evolution
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) de la Republica Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro (Sede Andina UNRN)
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata (FCAG UNLP)
- European Research Council under ERC-StG grant [EXAGAL-308037]
- German Science Foundation [SFB-881]
- Klaus Tschira Foundation
- STFC [ST/P000541/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In a previous paper based on dark matter only simulations we show that, in the approximation of an analytic and static potential describing the strongly triaxial and cuspy shape of Milky Way-sized haloes, diffusion due to chaotic mixing in the neighbourhood of the Sun does not efficiently erase phase space signatures of past accretion events. In this second paper we further explore the effect of chaotic mixing using multicomponent Galactic potential models and solar neighbourhood-like volumes extracted from fully cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, thus naturally accounting for the gravitational potential associated with baryonic components, such as the bulge and disc. Despite the strong change in the global Galactic potentials with respect to those obtained in dark matter only simulations, our results confirm that a large fraction of halo particles evolving on chaotic orbits exhibit their chaotic behaviour after periods of time significantly larger than a Hubble time. In addition, significant diffusion in phase space is not observed on those particles that do exhibit chaotic behaviour within a Hubble time.
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