期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 401, 期 3, 页码 1826-1831出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15752.x
关键词
Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: interactions
资金
- UK's Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC Grant) [ST/F002432/1]
- Commonwealth Cosmology Initiative
- STFC [ST/G003025/1, ST/F002432/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G003025/1, ST/F002432/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We analyse the kinematics and chemistry of the bulge stars of two simulated disc galaxies using our chemodynamical galaxy evolution code GCD+. First, we compare stars that are born inside the galaxy with those that are born outside the galaxy and are accreted into the centre of the galaxy. Stars that originate outside the bulge are accreted into it early in its formation within 3 Gyr so that these stars have high [alpha/Fe] as well as a high total energy reflecting their accretion to the centre of the galaxy. Therefore, higher total energy is a good indicator for finding accreted stars. The bulges of the simulated galaxies formed through multiple mergers separated by about a Gyr. Since [alpha/Fe] is sensitive to the first few Gyr of star formation history, stars that formed during mergers at different epochs show different [alpha/Fe]. We show that the [Mg/Fe] against star formation time relation can be very useful to identify a multiple merger bulge formation scenario, provided there is sufficiently good age information available. Our simulations also show that stars formed during one of the merger events retain a systematically prograde rotation at the final time. This demonstrates that the orbit of the ancient merger that helped to form the bulge could still remain in the kinematics of bulge stars.
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