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Grand, RJJ, Springel, V, Kawata, D, Minchev, I, Sánchez-Blázquez, P, Gómez, FA, Marinacci, F, Pakmor, R and Campbell, DJR (2016) Spiral-induced velocity and metallicity patterns in a cosmological zoom simulation of a Milky Way-sized galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 460 (1). L94-L98. ISSN 1745-3925
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Abstract
We use a high-resolution cosmological zoom simulation of a MilkyWay-sized halo to study the observable features in velocity and metallicity space associated with the dynamical influence of spiral arms. For the first time, we demonstrate that spiral arms, that form in a disc in a fully cosmological environment with realistic galaxy formation physics, drive large-scale systematic streaming motions. In particular, on the trailing edge of the spiral arms the peculiar galactocentric radial and azimuthal velocity field is directed radially outward and azimuthally backward, whereas it is radially inward and azimuthally forward on the leading edge. Owing to the negative radial metallicity gradient, this systematic motion drives, at a given radius, an azimuthal variation in the residual metallicity that is characterized by a metal-rich trailing edge and a metal-poor leading edge.We show that these signatures are theoretically observable in external galaxies with integral field unit instruments such as VLT/MUSE, and if detected, would provide evidence for large-scale systematic radial migration driven by spiral arms.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2023 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2023 10:57 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnrasl/slw086 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19351 |
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