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STELLAR KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS ON GALACTIC STRUCTURE MODELS REVISITED: BAR AND SPIRAL ARM RESONANCES
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| Author | Antoja, T. Valenzuela, O. Pichardo, B. Moreno, E. Figueras, F. Fernández, D. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Journal: The Astrophysical Journal We study the phase space available to the local stellar distribution using a Galactic potential consistent with several recent observational constraints. We find that the induced phase space structure has several observable consequences. The spiral arm contribution to the kinematic structure in the solar neighborhood may be as important as the one produced by the Galactic bar. We suggest that some of the stellar kinematic groups in the solar neighborhood, such as the Hercules structure and the kinematic branches, can be created by the dynamical resonances of self-gravitating spiral arms and not exclusively by the Galactic bar. A structure coincident with the Arcturus kinematic group is developed when a hot stellar disk population is considered, which introduces a new perspective on the interpretation of its extragalactic origin. A bar-related resonant mechanism can modify this kinematic structure. We show that particles in the dark matter disk-like structure predicted by recent lambda cold dark matter galaxy formation experiments, with similar kinematics to the thick disk, are affected by the same resonances, developing phase space structures or dark kinematic groups that are independent of the Galaxy assembly history and substructure abundance. We discuss the possibility of using the stellar phase space groups as constraints to nonaxisymmetric models of the Milky Way structure. |
| Related Links | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L78/pdf |
| Ending Page | L82 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | L78 |
| ISSN | 0004637X |
| DOI | 10.1088/0004-637x/700/2/l78 |
| Journal | The Astrophysical Journal |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 700 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2009-07-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics Phase Space Galaxy Formation Galaxy Evolution Dark Matter Cold Dark Matter Galaxy Disk Milky Way |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science |
