Linear response of rotating and flattened stellar clusters: the oblate Kuzmin-Kutuzov Stäckel family
arXiv:2412.15033 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/add5e5
Abstract
This paper investigates the linear response of a series of spheroidal stellar clusters, the Kuzmin-Kutuzov Stäckel family, which exhibit a continuous range of flattening and rotation, extending from an isochrone sphere to a Toomre disk. The method successfully replicates the growing modes previously identified in published -body simulations. It relies on the efficiency of the matrix method to quantify systematically the effects of rotation and flattening on the eigenmodes of the galaxy. We identify two types of bi-symmetric instabilities for the flatter models - the so-called bending and bar-growing modes - the latter of which persists even for very round models. As anticipated, in its least unstable configurations, the system becomes flatter as its rotational speed increases. More realistic equilibria will be required to achieve a better match to the main sequence of fast-slow rotators. The corresponding code is made public.
arXiv comment20 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ
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