期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 527, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015139
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: abundances; galaxies: spiral
资金
- ANR-CNRS
- AvH foundation
We have recently identified a new radial migration mechanism resulting from the overlap of spiral and bar resonances in galactic disks. Here we confirm the efficiency of this mechanism in fully self-consistent, Tree-SPH simulations, as well as high-resolution pure N-body simulations. In all barred cases we clearly identify the effect of spiral-bar resonance overlap by measuring a bimodality in the changes of angular momentum in the disk, Delta L, whose maxima are near the bar's corotation and outer Lindblad resonance. This contrasts with the smooth distribution of Delta L for a simulation with no stable bar present, where strong radial migration is induced by multiple spirals. The presence of a disk gaseous component appears to increase the rate of angular momentum exchange by about 20%. The efficiency of this mechanism is such that galactic stellar disks can extend to over 10 scale-lengths within 1-3 Gyr in both Milky Way size and low-mass galaxies (circular velocity similar to 100 km s(-1)). We also show that metallicity gradients can flatten in less than 1 Gyr rendering mixing in barred galaxies an order of magnitude more efficient than previously thought.
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