Bending Instability of Stellar Disks: The Stabilizing Effect of a Compact Bulge

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2004-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412063v1

Astron.Lett. 31 (2005) 15-29

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages including 10 figures. To be published in Astronomy Letters (v.31, No. 1, pp. 15-29 2005)

Scientific paper

10.1134/1.1854793

The saturation conditions for bending modes in inhomogeneous thin stellar disks that follow from an analysis of the dispersion relation are compared with those derived from $N$-body simulations. In the central regions of inhomogeneous disks, the reserve of disk strength against the growth of bending instability is smaller than that for a homogeneous layer. The spheroidal component (a dark halo, a bulge) is shown to have a stabilizing effect. The latter turns out to depend not only on the total mass of the spherical component, but also on the degree of mass concentration toward the center. We conclude that the presence of a compact (not necessarily massive) bulge in spiral galaxies may prove to be enough to suppress the bending perturbations that increase the disk thickness. This conclusion is corroborated by our $N$-body simulations in which we simulated the evolution of almost equilibrium, but unstable finite-thickness disks in the presence of spheroidal components. The final disk thickness at the same total mass of the spherical component (dark halo + bulge) has been found to be much smaller than that in the simulations where a concentrated bulge is present.

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