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D. Reynaud
& D. Downes
e-mail:
reynaud@iraux2.iram.fr
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble, FRANCE
Barred spirals have become interesting subjects of study with high resolution millimeter interferometers. The bar and the center of these galaxies is often rich in molecular gas, which is detectable at millimeter wavelengths. Gas may be concentrated in clouds, streaming towards the galactic center because of dissipative processes.
In the usual description of the dynamics of molecular gas in a barred
potential, e.g. Combes (1988), the azimuthal part of the barred potential is
described by a function. Then in a frame rotating with the
potential, the periodic orbits are ellipses either parallel to the bar (
)
or perpendicular (
), depending on the radius of the orbit. The orientation
(
or
) of ellipses changes by
at radii corresponding to
each Lindblad resonance. (A Lindblad resonance in a potential occurs at a
radius where epicyclic and circular orbital periods are in a rational fraction,
so that the orbits are closed in the frame rotating with the potential. The
existence and location of these resonances are only functions of the galactic
gravitational potential. Usually there are two inner Lindblad resonances (ILR)
near the galactic center, a corotation close to the ends of the bar, and an
outer Lindblad resonance (OLR) near the ends of the spiral arms.) Because of
dissipative processes, gas streamlines following these elliptical orbits
gradually change their orientation by
between two resonances. A
ring of stars or gas is often found at the inner Lindblad resonance(s). Orbits
inside the ILR and
outside may induce a torsion of the bar at the
radius of the ILR.
We observed the molecular gas in the bar of NGC 1530, a barred SBb spiral in
the line. We used the IRAM Interferometer on Plateau de
Bure between 1993 October and 1994 March. Each of the four 15 m antennas had an
SIS receiver with about 80 K noise temperature. The synthesized beam was
. The primary beam of each antenna is
at 115 GHz, so
to cover the 1.5 arcmin bar of NGC 1530, we made a mosaic of five partially
overlapping fields along the bar, resulting in a total coverage of
. We smoothed to a velocity resolution of
, which
gives a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio. The maps had useful data over a
total velocity range of
. The deconvolution of the
images was done with a CLEAN algorithm, especially adapted for mosaics.
Table 1: Characteristics of NGC 1530
NGC 1530, one of the largest and brightest barred galaxies in the northern sky,
is relatively nearby (Table 1). Its inclination of to the plane of
the sky allows us to observe the structures in the galactic disk and to get
good radial velocity information. The bar is long and strong, indicating a
substantial non-axisymmetric perturbation of the inner gravitational potential.
Most of the CO emission comes from the nuclear region and from the bar,
indicating that most of the gas in these parts of the galaxy is molecular.
images made with a
beam with the IRAM 30m telescope
show a bright feature near the nucleus, elongated perpendicular to the bar. The
interferometer resolves this feature, as described below.
Figure 1: Central region contour maps, at (thick)
and
(thin)
Such double features have already been detected in other SB galaxies with the Owens Valley millimeter interferometer (Kenney et al. (1992)). The twin peaks are interpreted as the traces of two shocks that form when gas streamlines cross the inner Lindblad resonance.
Table 2: Characteristics of the two main central clouds
For Table 2, linewidths and CO source sizes were measured at the
half-power level. Cloud masses were estimated with the standard conversion
factor of 5 ; e.g. Solomon & Barrett (1991).
Figure 2: Extended bar contour map at
Figure 3: NGC 1530 contour maps, between and
)
NGC 1530 shows strong CO emission in its center and along the bar. Non-circular
orbits may be the cause of the observed double peak structures near the
nucleus. This double structure is observed in the place where rectilinear parts
of the bar ( orbits) change over to perpendicular
orbits. These
orbits may be inside a ring traced in individual channel maps
(Figure 3). These points seem to illustrate the strength of
the non-axisymmetric perturbation in NGC 1530.