Nonlinear Effects in Models of the Galaxy: 1. Midplane Stellar Orbits in the Presence of 3D Spiral Arms

Abstract

With the aim of studying the nonlinear stellar and gaseous response to the gravitational potential of a galaxy such as the Milky Way, we have modeled 3D galactic spiral arms as a superposition of inhomogeneous oblate spheroids and added their contribution to an axisymmetric model of the Galactic mass distribution. Three spiral loci are proposed here, based in different sets of observations. A comparison of our model with a tight-winding approximation shows that the self-gravitation of the whole spiral pattern is important in the middle and outer galactic regions. As a first step to full 3D calculations the model is suitable for, we have explored the stellar orbital structure in the midplane of the Galaxy. We present the standard analysis in the pattern rotating frame, and complement this analysis with orbital information from the Galactic inertial frame. Prograde and retrograde orbits are defined unambiguously in the inertial frame, then labeled as such in the Poincaré diagrams of the non-inertial frame. In this manner we found a sharp separatrix between the two classes of orbits. Chaos is restricted to the prograde orbits, and its onset occurs for the higher spiral perturbation considered plausible in our Galaxy.

23 pages, 22 Figures. Latex. Submitted to ApJ

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