Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-04-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/310789
We show that non-chaotic multiply-periodic particle orbits can exist in a galaxy-like potential where a small fast-tumbling nuclear bar is nested inside a main bar which has a slower pattern speed. We introduce the concept of a loop: a one-dimensional curve such that particles distributed along it at some initial instant return to the same curve (as viewed in the rotating frame of one of the bars) after the bars return to the same relative position. Just as particles following regular orbits in a simply-barred potential are trapped around closed periodic orbits, so regular orbits in a doubly-barred potential oscillate about stable loops. We find both loops which remain aligned with the inner bar and loops aligned with the outer bar: particles trapped around these loops could form the building blocks for a long-lived, self-consistent, doubly-barred galaxy. In a realistic doubly-barred galaxy potential, we demonstrate the existence of stable loops which support the structure of the inner bar. We use the epicyclic approximation to preview the pattern of gas flow in a doubly-barred potential.
Maciejewski Witold
Sparke Linda S.
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