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Title:
The morphology of galactic rings exterior to evolving bars: test-particle simulations
Authors:
Bagley, Micaela; Minchev, Ivan; Quillen, Alice C.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; ), AB(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; ), AC(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; )
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 395, Issue 1, pp. 537-553. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
05/2009
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
galaxies: evolution , galaxies: spiral
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14575.x
Bibliographic Code:
2009MNRAS.395..537B

Abstract

The morphology of the outer rings of early-type spiral galaxies is compared to integrations of massless collisionless particles initially in nearly circular orbits. Particles are perturbed by a quadrupolar gravitational potential corresponding to a growing and secularly evolving bar. We find that outer rings with R1R2 morphology and pseudo-rings are exhibited by the simulations even though they lack gaseous dissipation. Simulations with stronger bars form pseudo-rings earlier and more quickly than those with weaker bars. We find that the R1 ring, perpendicular to the bar, is fragile and dissolves after a few bar rotation periods if the bar pattern speed increases by more than ~8 per cent, bar strength increases (by >~140 per cent) after bar growth or the bar is too strong (QT > 0.3). If the bar slows down after formation, pseudo-ring morphology persists and the R2 ring perpendicular to the bar is populated due to resonance capture. The R2 ring remains misaligned with the bar and increases in ellipticity as the bar slows down. The R2 ring becomes scalloped and does not resemble any ringed galaxies if the bar slows down more than 3.5 per cent suggesting that bars decrease in strength before they slow down this much. We compare the morphology of our simulations to B-band images of nine ringed galaxies from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey, and we find a reasonable match in morphologies to R1R2' pseudo-rings seen within a few bar rotation periods of bar formation. Some of the features previously interpreted in terms of dissipative models may be due to transient structure associated with recent bar growth and evolution.
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