no code implementations • 10 Dec 2020 • Daisuke Kawata, Junichi Baba, Jason A. S. Hunt, Ralph Schönrich, Ioana Ciucǎ, Jennifer Friske, George Seabroke, Mark Cropper
Using a numerical simulation of an isolated barred disc galaxy, we first demonstrate that the resonances of the inner bar structure induce more prominent features in the action space distribution for the kinematically hotter stars, which are less sensitive to the local perturbation, such as the transient spiral arms.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
