Bulges or Bars from Secular Evolution?
Author(s) -
Victor P. Debattista,
C. M. Carollo,
Lucio Mayer,
Ben Moore
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/386332
Subject(s) - instability , scaling , bar (unit) , physics , galaxy , bulge , astrophysics , buckling , kinematics , geometry , classical mechanics , mechanics , mathematics , meteorology , thermodynamics
We use high resolution collisionless $N$-body simulations to study thesecular evolution of disk galaxies and in particular the final properties ofdisks that suffer a bar and perhaps a bar-buckling instability. Although wefind that bars are not destroyed by the buckling instability, when we decomposethe radial density profiles of the secularly-evolved disks into inner S\'ersicand outer exponential components, for favorable viewing angles, the resultingstructural parameters, scaling relations and global kinematics of the barcomponents are in good agreement with those obtained for bulges of late-typegalaxies. Round bulges may require a different formation channel ordissipational processes.Comment: Accepted to ApJL. 4 figures, 2 in color Corrected minor typos and reference lis
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