The VPOS around the Milky Way
by Marcel S. Pawlowski
Description:
Animated version of Figure 5 in Pawlowski et al. (2012) for talks etc.. The movies rotate the view over 360 degree, showing different objects around the Milky Way galaxy (seen edge-on, cyan line). The y-axis points towards the Galactic north pole. The 11 classical satellites are shown as yellow dots, the 13 new satellites are represented by the smaller green dots, young halo globular clusters are plotted as blue squares. The red curves connect the anchor points of streams of stars and gas, the (light-red) shaded regions illustrating the planes defined by these and the Galactic centre. Note that the stream coordinates are magnified by a factor of 3 to ease the comparison.
One can clearly see when the view is edge-on to the VPOS: The extend of all types of objects becomes minimal, also the streams align preferentially with this structure. From standard dark matter cosmology, a much more spheroidal distribution of objects around the Milky Way is expected. We therefore propose the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way to be Tidal Dwarf Galaxies.
Further Information
"The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way" --- M. S. Pawlowski, J. Pflamm-Altenburg, P. Kroupa, (2012), MNRAS, accepted
Please refer to this paper when using/showing the videos.
Classical satellites
http://marcelpawlowski.com/mov<wbr></wbr>iefiles/VPOSclass.mov
plus faint satellites
http://marcelpawlowski.com/mov<wbr></wbr>iefiles/VPOSclassfaint.mov
plus young halo globular clusters
http://marcelpawlowski.com/mov<wbr></wbr>iefiles/VPOSclassfaintgc.mov
plus streams (3 times magnified)
http://marcelpawlowski.com/mov<wbr></wbr>iefiles/VPOSall.mov
Combination of all four
http://marcelpawlowski.com/mov<wbr></wbr>iefiles/VPOS.m4v
SPH Movies
von Ingo Thies
Beschreibung
This archive contains animations from SPH calculations on induced brown dwarf formation. The calculations have been performed by the DRAGON code by Simon Goodwin, using a radiative transfer algorithm by Dimitris Stamatellos. See Thies et al. (2010) for more details.
Weitere Informationen
Thies, Kroupa, Goodwin, Stamatellos & Whitworth, 2010 ApJ, accepted --- "Tidally induced brown dwarf and planet formation in circumstellar discs"
Making counter-orbiting tidal debris
by Marcel S. Pawlowski
Beschreibung:
Movies of two galaxy interactions calculated with the code SUPERBOX++. They have been discussed in the paper "Making Counter-Orbiting Tidal Debris: The Origin of the Milky Way Disc of Satellites?". Pro- and retrograde particles (green and red, respectively) checked and marked for every step. Target galaxy particles are blue.
Weitere Informationen:
Making counter-orbiting tidal debris - The origin of the Milky Way disc of satellites? - M. S. Pawlowski, P. Kroupa and K. S. de Boer, (2011), A&A, 532, A118
Fly-by model 5deg200vel |
Fly-by model 5deg200vel |
Merger models 7.5deg100vel |
Merger models 7.5deg100vel |