Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-02-23
Astron.Astrophys.296:380,1995
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, PostScript file including figures, to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We construct analytical phase-space solutions for perturbations of flat disks by performing a power series expansion for the radius and the velocity coordinates. We show that this approach translates into an elegant mathematical formulation which is easy to use for a wide variety of distribution functions, for as far as resonances do not play a role, such as is the case for potentials which are close to quadratic. As a testcase, the method is applied on the Kalnajs disks. The results obtained are in full agreement with the analytical solutions of the mode analysis. The strongest advantages of this method are its independence of the mathematical complexity of the unperturbed distribution, the degree of detail with which the solutions can be calculated and its computational straightforwardness. On the contrary, power series solutions are not suitable for describing regions where resonant orbits occur, which we therefore exclude in this paper. We used the technique to analyse perturbations in the central regions of a galaxy, tracking the dynamical consequences of a Galactic bar on the kinematics of the solar neighbourhood (Hipparcos). We showed how the orientation and strength of the bar is related to the properties of the velocity ellipsoid in our model.
Dejonghe Herwig
Vauterin P.
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