Populating Stellar Orbits Inside a Rotating, Gaseous Bar
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v1
Abstract
In an effort to better understand the formation and evolution of barred galaxies, we have examined the properties of equatorial orbits in the effective potential of one model of a rapidly rotating, steady-state gas-dynamical bar that has been constructed via a self-consistent hydrodynamical simulation. Using a ``Restriction Hypothesis'' to determine initial conditions, we find that a significant fraction of orbits in this potential are quasi-ergodic and that regular orbits have a ``bowtie'' shape in contrast to the more typical x1 orbits. This bowtie orbit should give a boxy-peanut shape to such systems.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101389,
title = {Populating Stellar Orbits Inside a Rotating, Gaseous Bar},
author = {Eric Barnes and Joel E. Tohline},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101389},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 29 pages, 29 gif figures