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On the relevance of chaos for halo stars in the solar neighbourhood II

Maffione, N.P.; Gómez, F.A.; Cincotta, P.M.; Giordano, C.M.; Grand, R.J.J.; Marinacci, F.; Pakmor, R.; Simpson, C.M.; Springel, V.; Frenk, C.S.

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Authors

N.P. Maffione

F.A. Gómez

P.M. Cincotta

C.M. Giordano

R.J.J. Grand

F. Marinacci

R. Pakmor

C.M. Simpson

V. Springel



Abstract

In a previous paper based on dark matter only simulations we show that, in the approximation of an analytic and static potential describing the strongly triaxial and cuspy shape of Milky Way-sized haloes, diffusion due to chaotic mixing in the neighbourhood of the Sun does not efficiently erase phase space signatures of past accretion events. In this second paper we further explore the effect of chaotic mixing using multicomponent Galactic potential models and solar neighbourhood-like volumes extracted from fully cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, thus naturally accounting for the gravitational potential associated with baryonic components, such as the bulge and disc. Despite the strong change in the global Galactic potentials with respect to those obtained in dark matter only simulations, our results confirm that a large fraction of halo particles evolving on chaotic orbits exhibit their chaotic behaviour after periods of time significantly larger than a Hubble time. In addition, significant diffusion in phase space is not observed on those particles that do exhibit chaotic behaviour within a Hubble time.

Citation

Maffione, N., Gómez, F., Cincotta, P., Giordano, C., Grand, R., Marinacci, F., …Frenk, C. (2018). On the relevance of chaos for halo stars in the solar neighbourhood II. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(3), 4052-4067. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1297

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 15, 2018
Online Publication Date May 17, 2018
Publication Date Aug 21, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 11, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 478
Issue 3
Pages 4052-4067
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1297

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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2018 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.





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