Local variations of the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid-I: the disc of galaxies in the Auriga simulations

Abstract

The connection between the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid (SVE) and the dynamical evolution of galaxies has been a matter of debate in the last years and there is no clear consensus whether different heating agents (e.g. spiral arms, giant molecular clouds, bars and mergers) leave clear detectable signatures in the present day kinematics. Most of these results are based on a single and global SVE and have not taken into account that these agents do not necessarily equally affect all regions of the stellar disc.We study the 2D spatial distribution of the SVE across the stellar discs of Auriga galaxies, a set of high resolution magneto-hydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations, to unveil the connection between local and global kinematic properties in the disc region. We find very similar, global, ${\sigma }_z/{\sigma }_r$= 0.80$\pm$ 0.08 values for galaxies of different Hubble types. This shows that the global properties of the SVE at z=0 are not a good indicator of the heating and cooling events experienced by galaxies. We also find that similar ${\sigma }_z/{\sigma }_r$radial profiles are obtained through different combinations of ${\sigma }_z$ and ${\sigma }_r$ trends: at a local level, the vertical and radial components can evolve differently, leading to similar ${\sigma }_z/{\sigma }_r$ profiles at z=0. By contrast, the 2D spatial distribution of the SVE varies a lot more from galaxy to galaxy. Present day features in the SVE spatial distribution may be associated with specific interactions such as fly-by encounters or the accretion of low mass satellites even in the cases when the global SVE is not affected. The stellar populations decomposition reveals that young stellar populations present colder and less isotropic SVEs and more complex 2D distributions than their older and hotter counterparts.

arXiv comment13 pages, 9 Figures, Figure 1 compares simulations and observations. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Title Updated

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