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The stellar velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, is a quantity of crucial importance for spiral galaxies, where it enters fundamental dynamical processes such as gravitational instability and disc heating. Here we analyse a sample of 34 nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Keoikantse Moses Mogotsi , Alessandro B. Romeo

For understanding the nature of gaseous flows in star-forming regions of nearby galaxies it is usually utilized the relation between surface brightness in H$\alpha$ line and velocity dispersion of ionized gas known as ''surface brightness…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 Evgemii O. Vasiliev , Yuri A. Shchekinov

We present the results of our numerical experiments on stellar scattering in the galactic disc under the influence of the perturbed galactic gravitation field connected with the spiral density waves and show that the point of view according…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Yu. N. Mishurov , I. A. Acharova

We show how the existence of a relation between the star formation rate and the gas density, i.e. the Kennicutt-Schmidt law, implies a continuous accretion of fresh gas from the environment into the discs of spiral galaxies. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Filippo Fraternali , Matteo Tomassetti

The relation between early type galaxy size, surface brightness and velocity dispersion, "the fundamental plane", has long been understood as resulting from equilibrium in their largely pressure supported stellar dynamics. The dissipation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Jeremy Mould

We explore local and global dynamical differences between the kinematics of ionised gas and stars in a sample of galaxies from Data Release 3 of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We find better agreement between local (i.e., comparing on a…

Using high-precision astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and updated systemic velocities from the literature, kinematical properties of cataclysmic variables (CVs) were investigated. By constraining the data according to the total space velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 R. Canbay , T. Ak , S. Bilir , F. Soydugan , Z. Eker

The Galactic centre hosts, according to observations, a number of early-type stars. About one half of those which are orbiting the central supermassive black hole on orbits with projected radii $\gtrsim$ 0.03 pc form a coherently rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Jaroslav Haas , Ladislav Subr , Pavel Kroupa

Scattering of stars by interstellar clouds or massive clumps increases the stellar velocity dispersion and promotes a radial disk profile that is exponential. Here we show that such scattering reaches a steady-state distribution function of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Curtis Struck , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Elena DOnghia

We present evidence for a Galactic North-South asymmetry in the number density and bulk velocity of solar neighborhood stars. The number density profile, which is derived from main-sequence stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, shows a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Lawrence M. Widrow , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny , Scott Dodelson , Hsin-Yu Chen

We have pursued two different methods to analyze the old stellar population near the Galactic plane, using data from the 2MASS survey. The first method is based on the isolation of the red clump giant population in the color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lopez-Corredoira , A. Cabrera-Lavers , F. Garzon , P. L. Hammersley

We consider a thickness of stellar disks of late-type galaxies by analyzing the R and K_s band photometric profiles for two independent samples of edge-on galaxies. The main goal is to verify a hypotesis that a thickness of old stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Zasov , D. V. Bizyaev , D. I. Makarov , N. V. Tyurina

Based on results from cold dark matter N-body simulations we develop a dynamical model for the evolution of subhaloes within host haloes of galaxy groups. Only subhaloes more massive than 5 times 10^8 M_{sol} at the time of accretion are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Faltenbacher , William G. Mathews

Observations of the Galactic Centre show evidence of disc-like structures of very young stars orbiting the central super-massive black hole within a distance of a few 0.1 pc. While it is widely accepted that about half of the stars form a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ulf Löckmann , Holger Baumgardt

We study the kinematics of stars both at their formation and today within 14 Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies from the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We quantify the relative importance of cosmological disk settling and post-formation…

High redshift disc galaxies are more gas rich, clumpier, and more turbulent than local Universe galaxies. This early era of galaxy formation imprints the distribution and kinematics of the stars that we observe today, but it is not yet well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Floor van Donkelaar , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

Previous research has established a relationship between radial action and scale height in Galactic disks, unveiling a correlation between radial and vertical heating. This finding poses a challenge to our existing comprehension of heating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-13 Yunpeng Jia , Chengqun Yang , Yuqin Chen , Cuihua Du , Gang Zhao

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

For disc galaxies, a close relation exists between the distribution of light and the shape of the rotation curve. We quantify this relation by measuring the inner circular-velocity gradient d_{R}V(0) for spiral and irregular galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Lelli , Filippo Fraternali , Marc Verheijen

The behavior of the relative magnesium abundances in the thin-disk stars versus their orbital radii suggests that the star formation rate in the thin disk decreases with increasing Galactocentric distance, and there was no star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 V. A. Marsakov , M. V. Shapovalov , T. V. Borkova