The formation of disk galaxies in a cosmological context: Populations, metallicities and metallicity gradients

Details The formation of disk galaxies in a cosmological context: Populations, metallicities and metallicity gradients The formation of disk galaxies in a cosmological context: Populations, metallicities and metallicity gradients

1993-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312010v1

Astron.Astrophys. 281 (1994) L97-L100

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, compressed uu-encoded postscript file, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters in press

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We present first results concerning the metallicities and stellar populations of galaxies formed in a cosmologically motivated simulation. The calculations include dark matter, gas dynamics, radiation processes, star formation, supernovae feedback, and metal enrichment. A rotating, overdense sphere with a mass of $8\,10^{11}\,$\Msol\ serves as initial model. Converging and Jeans unstable regions are allowed to form stars, which get their metallicity from the gas they are formed from. Via supernovae, metal enriched gas is given back to the interstellar medium. The forming galaxy shows the main properties of spiral galaxies: A metal rich bulge, a metal poor stellar halo and a disk of nearly solar composition. Halo and bulge consist predominantly of old stars ($>10.5\,$Gyrs). The disk has a metallicity gradient of $\dd(\log Z) / \dd r = - 0.05\,$kpc$^{-1}$, whereas the halo shows none. The models also exhibit a correlation between the metallicity of Pop~II stars and the power of small scale fluctuations. The stars of the bulge form from gas which is initially located in the largest maxima of the primordial density fluctuations, whereas the halo stars originate from gas accumulated in less pronounced maxima.

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