Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularization in rotating discs: A semi-analytical description
Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularization in rotating discs: A semi-analytical description
We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction (DF) on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that DF efficiently circularizes the orbit of co-rotating perturbers, while it constantly increases the eccentricity of counter-rotating ones until their angular momenta reverse, then once again promoting circularization. Such ‘drag toward circular co-rotation’ could shape the distribution of orientations of kinematically decoupled cores in disc galaxies, naturally leading to the observed larger fraction of co-rotating cores.
Galaxies: nuclei, Galaxies: structure, Gravitation, Methods: numerical, Stars: kinematics and dynamics
3053-3059
Bonetti, Matteo
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Bortolas, Elisa
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Lupi, Alessandro
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Dotti, Massimo
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De Jesus Raimundo, Sandra
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11 May 2020
Bonetti, Matteo
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Bortolas, Elisa
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Lupi, Alessandro
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Dotti, Massimo
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De Jesus Raimundo, Sandra
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Bonetti, Matteo, Bortolas, Elisa, Lupi, Alessandro, Dotti, Massimo and De Jesus Raimundo, Sandra
(2020)
Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularization in rotating discs: A semi-analytical description.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494 (2), .
(doi:10.1093/mnras/staa964).
Abstract
We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction (DF) on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that DF efficiently circularizes the orbit of co-rotating perturbers, while it constantly increases the eccentricity of counter-rotating ones until their angular momenta reverse, then once again promoting circularization. Such ‘drag toward circular co-rotation’ could shape the distribution of orientations of kinematically decoupled cores in disc galaxies, naturally leading to the observed larger fraction of co-rotating cores.
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Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularisation in rotating discs a semi-analytical description
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 April 2020
Published date: 11 May 2020
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Numerical calculations have been made possible through a CINECA-INFN agreement, providing access to resources on GALILEO and MARCONI at CINECA. AL acknowledges support from the European Research Council No. 740120 ‘INTERSTELLAR’. EB acknowledges support from the Swiss National Science Foundation under the Grant 200020 178949. SIR gratefully acknowledges support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark via grant numbers DFF 4002-00275 and 8021-00130. MD acknowledges Giuseppe Lodato for pointing out that the expression ‘angular momentum flip’ could be misleading (see footnote 1).
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© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Galaxies: nuclei, Galaxies: structure, Gravitation, Methods: numerical, Stars: kinematics and dynamics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/444016
ISSN: 1365-2966
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