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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 772, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/772/1/36
关键词
galaxies: bulges; galaxies: evolution; methods: numerical
资金
- NSF [OIA-1124453]
- NASA [NNX12AF87G]
- ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Marie Curie Actions for People COFUND Program
- Office of Integrative Activities
- Office Of The Director [1124453] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [75186, NNX12AF87G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We investigate the formation and evolution of the pseudobulge in Eris, a high-resolution N-body + smoothed particle hydrodynamic cosmological simulation that successfully reproduces a Milky-Way-like massive late-type spiral in an cold dark matter universe. At the present epoch, Eris has a virial mass M-vir similar or equal to 8 x 10(11) M-circle dot, a photometric stellar mass M-* = 3.2 x 10(10) M-circle dot, a bulge-to-total ratio B/T = 0.26, and a weak nuclear bar. We find that the bulk of the pseudobulge forms quickly at high redshift via a combination of non-axisymmetric disk instabilities and tidal interactions or mergers, both occurring on dynamical timescales, not through slow secular processes at lower redshift. Its subsequent evolution is not strictly secular either, and is closely intertwined with the evolution of the stellar bar. In fact, the structure that we recognize as a pseudobulge today evolved from a stellar bar that formed at high redshift due to tidal interactions with satellites, was destroyed by minor mergers at z similar to 3, re-formed shortly after, and weakened again following a steady gas inflow at z less than or similar to 1. The gradual dissolution of the bar ensued at z similar to 1 and continues until the present without increasing the stellar velocity dispersion in the inner regions. In this scenario, the pseudobulge is not a separate component from the inner disk in terms of formation path; rather, it is the first step in the inside-out formation of the baryonic disk, in agreement with the fact that pseudobulges of massive spiral galaxies typically have a dominant old stellar population. If our simulations do indeed reproduce the formation mechanisms of massive spirals, then the progenitors of late-type galaxies should have strong bars and small photometric pseudobulges at high redshift.
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