3D Barred Model of the Milky Way Including Gas
Abstract
We present a 3D N-body simulation of the Milky Way including 4*105 star- and dark-like particles and 2*104 gas particles, initially distributed according to an axisymmetric, observationally constrained, mass model. The whole system is self-gravitating and the gas hydrodynamics is solved using the SPH method. The simulation leads to the spontaneous formation of a central bar that strongly affects the gas dynamics. We compute (l-V) diagrams for both the gaseous and the stellar particles as a function of the angle of the bar with respect to the observer and compare the results for the gas with HI and CO observations.
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