Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages; 4 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20079316
{} {To quantify the amount of chaos that exists in the local phase space.} {A sample of orbits from four different models of the Solar neighbourhood phase space are analysed by a new chaos identification (and quantification) technique. While three of the used models bear the signature of the perturbation due to both the Galactic bar and the spiral pattern, the last of the models is a bar only one. We explore the models by inter-comparing the corresponding values of chaos strength that is induced at the various energy levels .}{(1) We find that of all the viable models that have been demonstrated to successfully reproduce the local phase space structure, i.e. those that include the bar as well as the spiral, bear strong chaoticity, though the model that implies the highest degree of chaos is the one in which overlap of the major resonances of the bar and the spiral occurs. The bar only model is found to display regularity. (2) We advance chaos to be primarily responsible for the splitting of the Hyades-Pleiades mode (the larger mode) of the local velocity distribution}{}
Chakrabarty Dalia
Sideris Ioannis V.
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