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Formation of Late-type Spiral Galaxies: Gas Return from Stellar Populations Regulates Disk Destruction and Bulge Growth

  • Authors: Marie Martig and Frédéric Bournaud

MARTIG & BOURNAUD 2010 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 714 L275.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Kinematics in the two simulations. The left panel shows the rotation curves. The prominent bulge in the fiducial run causes a central bump in the circular velocity profile, while this profile is much flatter for the simulation including stellar mass loss. In the inset, shown is the radial velocity distribution for the galaxy seen edge-on in both simulations: the FWHM is used for comparisons with observations of the Tully–Fisher relation. The right panel shows the distribution of the ratio of the angular momentum of the stars along the z-axis to the angular momentum they would have on circular orbits: bulge stars are found around epsilon = 0 while disk stars are found around epsilon = 1. The bulge component is significantly reduced under the effect of stellar mass loss.

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