Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
We study, using direct orbit integrations, the kinematic response of the outer stellar disk to the presence of a central bar, as in the Milky-Way. We find that the bar's outer Lindblad resonance (OLR) causes significant perturbations of the velocity moments. With increasing velocity dispersion, the radius of these perturbations is shifted outwards, beyond the nominal position of the OLR, but also the disk becomes less responsive. If we follow Dehnen (2000) in assuming that the OLR occurs just inside the Solar circle and that the Sun lags the bar major axis by ~20 degrees, we find (1) no significant radial motion of the local standard of rest (LSR), (2) a vertex deviation of \~10 degrees and (3) a lower ratio sigma_2/sigma_1 of the principal components of the velocity- dispersion tensor than for an unperturbed disk. All of these are actually consistent with the observations of the Solar-neighbourhood kinematics. Thus it seems that at least the lowest-order deviations of the local-disk kinematics from simple expectations based on axisymmetric equilibrium can be attributed entirely to the influence of the Galactic bar.
Dehnen Walter
M"uhlbauer Gerhard
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