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Orbit properties of massive prolate galaxies in the Illustris simulation

Authors :
Shude Mao
Hongyu Li
Xuelei Chen
Volker Springel
Dandan Xu
Yougang Wang
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We explore orbit properties of 35 prolate-triaxial galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We present a detailed study of their orbit families, and also analyse relations between the relative abundance of the orbit families and the spin parameter, triaxiality, the ratio of the angular momentum and the baryon fraction. We find that box orbits dominate the orbit structure for most prolate-triaxial galaxies, especially in the central region. The fraction of irregular orbits in the prolate-triaxial galaxies is small, and it increases with galaxy radius. Both the x-tube and z-tube orbits are important in prolate-triaxial galaxies, especially in the outer regions. The fraction of box orbits for prolate-triaxial galaxies ($0.7<br />Comment: 12 pages, 13 Figures; accepted to MNRAS

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....263cae950b7b4c0c05dfd2aae58954bc