Invariant manifolds and the response of spiral arms in barred galaxies

Details Invariant manifolds and the response of spiral arms in barred galaxies Invariant manifolds and the response of spiral arms in barred galaxies

2008-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/0811.4521v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 Pages

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200810149

The unstable invariant manifolds of the short-period family of periodic orbits around the unstable Lagrangian points $L_1$ and $L_2$ of a barred galaxy define loci in the configuration space which take the form of a trailing spiral pattern. In the present paper we investigate this association in the case of the self-consistent models of Kaufmann & Contopoulos (1996) which provide an approximation of real barred-spiral galaxies. We also examine the relation of `response' models of barred-spiral galaxies with the theory of the invariant manifolds. Our main results are the following: The invariant manifolds yield the correct form of the imposed spiral pattern provided that their calculation is done with the spiral potential term turned on. We provide a theoretical model explaining the form of the invariant manifolds that supports the spiral structure. The azimuthal displacement of the Lagrangian points with respect to the bar's major axis is a crucial parameter in this modeling. When this is taken into account, the manifolds necessarily develop in a spiral-like domain of the configuration space, delimited from below by the boundary of a banana-like non-permitted domain, and from above either by rotational KAM tori or by cantori forming a stickiness zone. We construct `spiral response' models on the basis of the theory of the invariant manifolds and examine the connection of the latter to the `response' models (Patsis 2006) used to fit real barred-spiral galaxies, explaining how are the manifolds related to a number of morphological features seen in such models.

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