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A complete map of the 3D distribution of molecular (CO) gas was constructed using a realistic dynamical model of the gas flow in the barred potential of the Milky Way. The map shows two prominent spiral arms starting at the bar ends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Peter Englmaier , Martin Pohl , Nicolai Bissantz

Identifying the structure of our Galaxy has always been fraught with difficulties, and while modern surveys continue to make progress building a map of the Milky Way, there is still much to understand. The arm and bar features are important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alex R. Pettitt , Sarah E. Ragan , Martin C. Smith

We report calculations of the stellar and gaseous response to a Milky Way mass distribution model including a spiral pattern with a locus as traced by K-band observations, over imposed on the axisymmetric components in the plane of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Martos , X. Hernandez , M. Yanez , E. Moreno , B. Pichardo

We re-examine past suggestions of a close link between terrestrial climate change and the Sun's transit of spiral arms in its path through the Milky Way galaxy. These links produced concrete fits, deriving the unknown spiral pattern speed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew C. Overholt , Adrian L. Melott , Martin K. Pohl

We test the idea that bar pattern speeds decrease with time owing to angular momentum exchange with a dark matter halo. If this process actually occurs, then the locations of the corotation resonance and other resonances should generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Yun Hee Lee , Myeong-Gu Park , Ho Seong Hwang , Hong Bae Ann , Haeun Chung , Taehyun Kim

We present new gas flow models for the Milky Way inside the solar circle. Using a mass model derived from the COBE/DIRBE maps and clump giant star counts, and using a parametric model for the spiral arm pattern in the disk, we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Englmaier , O. E. Gerhard , N. Bissantz

Physics of the gravitational effect of the galactic bar and spiral structure is presented. Physical equations differ from the conventionally used equations. Application to the motion of the Sun is treated. The speed of the Sun is taken to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-01 J. Klacka , M. Jurci , J. Durzo , R. Nagy

The rotation velocity of the spiral pattern of the Galaxy is determined by direct observation of the birthplaces of open clusters of stars in the galactic disk as a function of their age. Our measurement does not depend on any specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. S. Dias , J. R. D. Lépine

This paper presents a new approach to studying galactic structures. They are considered as the low-frequency normal modes in a disc of orbits precessing at different angular speeds. Such a concept is an adequate alternative to the commonly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Polyachenko

In this paper we introduce a new method for analysing Milky Way phase-space which allows us to reveal the imprint left by the Milky Way bar and spiral arms on the stars with full phase-space data in Gaia Data Release 2. The unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 S. Khoperskov , O. Gerhard , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood , D. Katz , S. Khrapov , A. Khoperskov , M. Arnaboldi

The knowledge of the positions of the corotation resonance in spiral arms is a key way to estimate their pattern speed, which is a fundamental parameter determining the galaxy dynamics. Various methods for its estimation have been…

Observations and simulations of barred spiral galaxies have shown that, in general, the spiral arms rotate at a different pattern speed to that of the bar. The main conclusion from the bibliography is that the bar rotates faster than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 M. Harsoula , C. Efthymiopoulos , G. Contopoulos , A. C. Tzemos

We present a revised method for simultaneous determination of the pattern speed and star formation timescale of spiral galaxies, its application, and results for CO and Ha images of nearby spiral galaxies. Out of 13 galaxies, we were able…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Fumi Egusa , Kotaro Kohno , Yoshiaki Sofue , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Shinya Komugi

We consider the nature of orbits near the solar neighborhood which are perturbed by local spiral arms and the Milky Way bar. We present a simplified Hamiltonian model which includes resonant terms from both types of perturbations and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Quillen

We have obtained two-dimensional velocity fields in the ionized gas of a set of 8 double-barred galaxies, at high spatial and spectral resolution, using their H$\alpha$ emission fields measured with a scanning Fabry-Perot spectrometer.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joan Font , John E. Beckman , Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel , Kambiz Fathi , Benoît Epinat , Philippe Amram

We investigate pattern speeds in spiral galaxies where the structure is induced by an interaction with a companion galaxy. We perform calculations modeling the response of the stellar and/or gaseous components of a disc. Generally we do not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-08 C. L. Dobbs

We present gas flow models for the Milky Way based on high-resolution grid-based hydrodynamical simulations. The basic galactic potential we use is from a N-body model constrained by the density of red clump giants in the Galactic bulge. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Zhi Li , Ortwin Gerhard , Juntai Shen , Matthieu Portail , Christopher Wegg

The dynamical effects on the stellar motion produced by the Galactic central bar and the spiral arms perturbations are investigated separately and compared. The stars from the Gaia DR3 catalog are selected in the region of observable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 Willian Y. Nacafucasaco , Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Douglas Barros , Jacques Lépine

Spiral arms are the defining features of broad morphological classes of disc galaxies, but their nature and influence on galaxy evolution is still under debate. A key diagnostic for their nature is the spiral arm pattern speed: the radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Robert J. J. Grand , Martin Roth

We use the largest open clusters catalogue in the post-Gaia era to provide the observational view of the Galactic disk. By compiling the physical parameters like age, distance, and kinematic information, we investigate the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Yogesh C. Joshi , Sagar Malhotra