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Effects of Magnetic Fields on Bar Substructures in Barred Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Woong-Tae Kim*
Affiliation:
Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU), Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea email: wkim@astro.snu.ac.kr
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Abstract

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To study the effects of magnetic fields on the properties of bar substructures, we run two-dimensional, ideal MHD simulations of barred galaxies under the influence of a non-axisymmetric bar potential. In the bar regions, magnetic fields reduce density compression in the dust-lane shocks, while removing angular momentum further from the gas at the shocks. This evidently results in a smaller and more distributed ring, and a larger mass inflows rate to the galaxy center in models with stronger magnetic fields. In the outer regions, an MHD dynamo due to the combined action of the bar potential and background shear operates, amplifying magnetic fields near the corotation resonance. In the absence of spiral arms, the amplified fields naturally shape into trailing magnetic arms with strong fields and low density. The reader is refereed to Kim & Stone (2012) for a detailed presentation of the simulation outcomes.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

References

Kim, W.-T. & Stone, J. M. 2012, ApJ, 751, 124CrossRefGoogle Scholar