Milky Way globular clusters on cosmological timescales. I. Evolution of the orbital parameters in time-varying potentials

Abstract

Context. Recent observational data show that the Milky Way (MW) galaxy contains about 170 globular clusters (GCs). A fraction of them is likely formed in dwarf galaxies accreted onto the MW in the past, while the remaining of clusters are formed in-situ. Therefore, different parameters, including orbits, of the globular clusters is a valuable tool for studying the Milky Way evolution. However, since the evolution of the 3D mass distribution of the MW is poorly constrained, the orbits of the clusters are usually calculated in static potentials. Aims. In this work, we study the evolution of the GCs in several external potentials, where we aim to quantify the effects of the evolving galaxy potential on the orbits of the GCs. Methods. For the orbits calculation we used five MW-like potentials from IllustrisTNG-100 simulation. The orbits of 159 GCs were integrated using a high-order N-body parallel dynamic code phi-GPU, with initial conditions obtained from recent Gaia DR3 catalogues. Results. We provide a classification of the GCs orbits according to their 3D shapes and association with different components of the MW (disk, halo, bulge). We also found that the globular clusters in the external potentials have roughly similar energy-angular momentum distributions at the present time. However, both total energy and total angular momentum of the GCs are not conserved due to time-varying nature of the potentials. In some extreme cases, the total energy can change up to 40% (18 objects) over the last 5 Gyr of evolution. We found that the in-situ formed GCs are less affected by the evolution of the TNG potentials as compared to the clusters which are likely formed ex-situ. Therefore, our results suggest that time-varying potentials significantly affect the orbits of the GC, thus making it vital for understanding the formation of the MW.

arXiv comment19 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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