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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 454, 期 3, 页码 3049-3059出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2188
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; MHD; turbulence; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: centre; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
资金
- MEXT of Japan [24224005]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H05694, 23740153] Funding Source: KAKEN
By performing a global magnetohydrodynamical simulation for the Milky Way with an axisymmetric gravitational potential, we propose that spatially dependent amplification of magnetic fields possibly explains the observed noncircular motion of the gas in the Galactic centre region. The radial distribution of the rotation frequency in the bulge region is not mono-tonic in general. The amplification of the magnetic field is enhanced in regions with stronger differential rotation, because magnetorotational instability and field-line stretching are more effective. The strength of the amplified magnetic field reaches greater than or similar to 0.5 mG, and radial flows of the gas are excited by the inhomogeneous transport of angular momentum through turbulent magnetic field that is amplified in a spatially dependent manner. In addition, the magnetic pressure-gradient force also drives radial flows in a similar manner. As a result, the simulated position-velocity diagram exhibits a time-dependent asymmetric parallelogram-shape owing to the intermittency of the magnetic turbulence; the present model provides a viable alternative to the bar-potential-driven model for the parallelogram shape of the central molecular zone. This is a natural extension into the central few 100 pc of the magnetic activity, which is observed as molecular loops at radii from a few 100 pc to 1 kpc. Furthermore, the time-averaged net gas flow is directed outward, whereas the flows are highly time dependent, which we discuss from a viewpoint of the outflow from the bulge.
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