Baba, Junichi;
Kawata, Daisuke;
Schönrich, Ralph;
(2022)
Age distribution of stars in boxy/peanut/X-shaped bulges formed without bar buckling.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
10.1093/mnras/stac598.
(In press).
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Abstract
Some barred galaxies, including the Milky Way, host a boxy/peanut/X-shaped bulge (BPX-shaped bulge). Previous studies suggested that the BPX-shaped bulge can either be developed by bar buckling or by vertical inner Lindblad resonance (vILR) heating without buckling. In this paper, we study the observable consequence of an BPX-shaped bulge built up quickly after bar formation via vILR heating without buckling, using an N-body/hydrodynamics simulation of an isolated Milky Way-like galaxy. We found that the BPX-shaped bulge is dominated by stars born prior to bar formation. This is because the bar suppresses star formation, except for the nuclear stellar disc (NSD) region and its tips. The stars formed near the bar ends have higher Jacobi energy, and when these stars lose their angular momentum, their non-circular energy increases to conserve Jacobi energy. This prevents them from reaching the vILR to be heated to the BPX region. By contrast, the NSD forms after the bar formation. From this simulation and general considerations, we expect that the age distributions of the NSD and BPX-shaped bulge formed without bar buckling do not overlap each other. Then, the transition age between these components betrays the formation time of the bar, and is testable in future observations of the Milky Way and extra-galactic barred galaxies.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Age distribution of stars in boxy/peanut/X-shaped bulges formed without bar buckling |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac598 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac598 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Galaxy: bulge, Galaxy: bar, Galaxy: center, Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146039 |
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