Global structures in a composite system of two scale-free discs with a coplanar magnetic field

Details Global structures in a composite system of two scale-free discs with a coplanar magnetic field Global structures in a composite system of two scale-free discs with a coplanar magnetic field

2006-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607328v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:81-112,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

35 pages, 24 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10766.x

We investigate a theoretical MHD disc problem involving a composite disc system of gravitationally coupled stellar and gaseous discs with a coplanar magnetic field in the presence of an axisymmetric dark matter halo. The two discs are expediently approximated as razor-thin, a ring-like magnetic field, and a power-law rotation curve in radius . By imposing the scale-free condition, we construct analytically stationary global MHD perturbation configurations for both aligned and logarithmic spiral patterns. MHD perturbation configurations in a composite system of partial discs in the presence of an axisymmetric dark matter halo are also considered. We derive analytically the stationary MHD dispersion relations for both aligned and unaligned perturbation structures and analyze the corresponding phase relationships between surface mass densities and the magnetic field. Compared with earlier results, we obtain three solution branches corresponding to super fast MHD density waves, fast MHD density waves and slow MHD density waves, respectively. By evaluating the unaligned $m=0$ case, we determine the marginal stability curves where the two unstable regimes corresponding to Jeans collapse instability and ring fragmentation instability are identified. We find that the aligned $m=0$ case is simply the limit of the unaligned $m=0$ case with the radial wavenumber $\xi\to0$. We further show that a composite system of partial discs behaves much differently from a composite system of full discs in certain aspects. Our formalism provides a useful theoretical framework in the study of stationary global perturbation configurations for MHD disc galaxies with bars, spirals and barred spirals.

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