Orbital dynamics of three-dimensional bars: I. The backbone of 3D bars. A fiducial case

Details Orbital dynamics of three-dimensional bars: I. The backbone of 3D bars. A fiducial case Orbital dynamics of three-dimensional bars: I. The backbone of 3D bars. A fiducial case

2002-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204077v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 333 (2002) 847

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05468.x

In this series of papers we investigate the orbital structure of 3D models representing barred galaxies. In the present introductory paper we use a fiducial case to describe all families of periodic orbits that may play a role in the morphology of three-dimensional bars. We show that, in a 3D bar, the backbone of the orbital structure is not just the x1 family, as in 2D models, but a tree of 2D and 3D families bifurcating from x1. Besides the main tree we have also found another group of families of lesser importance around the radial 3:1 resonance. The families of this group bifurcate from x1 and influence the dynamics of the system only locally. We also find that 3D orbits elongated along the bar minor axis can be formed by bifurcations of the planar x2 family. They can support 3D bar-like structures along the minor axis of the main bar. Banana-like orbits around the stable Lagrangian points build a forest of 2D and 3D families as well. The importance of the 3D x1-tree families at the outer parts of the bar depends critically on whether they are introduced in the system as bifurcations in $z$ or in $\dot{z}$.

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