Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 754, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/754/1/48
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM; instabilities; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; turbulence
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Funding
- National Science Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- NSF [CAREER-0955300]
- NASA [NNX09AK31G]
- Chandra Space Telescope Grant
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0955300] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [NNX09AK31G, 114137] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Observations of disk galaxies at z similar to 2 have demonstrated that turbulence driven by gravitational instability can dominate the energetics of the disk. We present a one-dimensional simulation code, which we have made publicly available, that economically evolves these galaxies from z similar to 2 to z similar to 0 on a single CPU in a matter of minutes, tracking column density, metallicity, and velocity dispersions of gaseous and multiple stellar components. We include an H-2-regulated star formation law and the effects of stellar heating by transient spiral structure. We use this code to demonstrate a possible explanation for the existence of a thin and thick disk stellar population and the age-velocity-dispersion correlation of stars in the solar neighborhood: the high velocity dispersion of gas in disks at z similar to 2 decreases along with the cosmological accretion rate, while at lower redshift the dynamically colder gas forms the low velocity dispersion stars of the thin disk.
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