Formation of giant low surface brightness galaxies through disc instability

Details Formation of giant low surface brightness galaxies through disc instability Formation of giant low surface brightness galaxies through disc instability

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.328..353n&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 2, pp. 353-358.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Evolution, Galaxies: Formation, Galaxies: Kinematics And Dynamics, Galaxies: Spiral, Galaxies: Structure

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It is shown that the giant low surface brightness galaxies (GLSBs), characterized by a large but diffuse disc component, can result from ordinary spiral galaxies through dynamical evolution. Numerical simulations indicate that the formation of a bar in a gravitationally unstable disc with high surface density induces non-circular motions and radial mixing of disc matter, leading to the flattening of the disc density profile. The resulting decrease in the disc central surface brightness is ~1.5 magnitude, while the disc scalelength is nearly doubled, transforming a typical high surface brightness galaxy to a GSLB. This scenario seems promising especially for the GSLBs possessing a significant bulge, which are difficult to incorporate into the traditional Hubble sequence. Namely, because this disc transmutation can operate even if a moderate bulge component exists, the GSLBs with a bulge are argued to have resulted from the high surface brightness galaxies which had already possessed a bulge. The current picture naturally explains other observed characteristics of the GSLBs as well, including the propensity for having grand-design spiral arms and a bar, a high incidence of active nuclei, and galaxy environments.

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