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Spiral density wave theory attempts to describe the spiral pattern in spiral galaxies in terms of a long-lived wave structure with a constant pattern speed in order to avoid the winding dilemma. The pattern is consequently a rigidly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand , Mark Cropper

We study the presence and importance of stellar migration in the evolution of 17 Milky-Way like disk galaxies with stellar mass $10 < \textrm{log}(M_{*}/{\rm M}_\odot) < 11$ from the Auriga suite of zoom-in cosmological hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Periklis Okalidis , Robert J. J. Grand , Robert M. Yates , Volker Springel

Models of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy are extended to include radial migration of stars and flow of gas through the disc. The models track the production of both iron and alpha elements. A model is chosen that provides an excellent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney

We investigate the role of radial migration history of stars in chemical evolution of a disk galaxy, in particular in understanding the origin of their bimodal distribution on the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane. For this purpose, we examine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Daisuke Toyouchi , Masashi Chiba

This letter studies the formation of azimuthal metallicity variations in the disks of spiral galaxies in the absence of initial radial metallicity gradients. Using high-resolution $N$-body simulations, we model composite stellar discs, made…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-16 S. Khoperskov , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood , F. Combes

Spiral density wave theory attempts to describe the spiral pattern in spiral galaxies in terms of a long-lived wave structure with a constant pattern speed in order to avoid the winding dilemma. The pattern is consequently a rigidly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

We develop and apply a model to quantify the global efficiency of radial orbit migration among stars in the Milky Way disk. This model parameterizes the possible star formation and enrichment histories, radial birth profiles, and combines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Neige Frankel , Hans-Walter Rix , Yuan-Sen Ting , Melissa K. Ness , David W. Hogg

In the solar-neighbourhood, older stars have larger random velocities than younger ones. It is argued that the increase in velocity dispersion with time is predominantly a gradual process rather than one induced by discrete events such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Binney

Rotation has a number of important effects on the evolution of stars. Apart from structural changes because of the centrifugal force, turbulent mixing and meridional circulation caused by rotation can dramatically affect a star's chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Adrian T. Potter , Christopher A. Tout , Ines Brott

Frankel et al (2020) reported that the rate of diffusion in angular momentum by stars in the disk of the Milky Way was about ten times faster than the rate of heating, which places a stringent requirement on the nature of disk star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-31 J A Sellwood , J Binney

Most stars are born in the crowded environments of gradually forming star clusters. Dynamical interactions between close-passing stars and the evolving UV radiation fields from proximate massive stars are expected to sculpt the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-20 Aayush Gautam , Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan

The analysis of the kinematics of solar neighbourhood stars shows that the low and high metallicity tails of the thin disc are populated by objects which orbital properties suggest an origin in the outer and inner galactic disc,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Misha Haywood

The properties and star formation processes in the far-outer disks of nearby spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies are reviewed. The origin and structure of the generally exponential profiles in stellar disks is considered to result from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter

Major mergers or/and the repeated minor mergers lead to dynamical heating of disks of galaxies. We analyze the available data on the velocity dispersion of stellar disks of S-S0 galaxies, including the new observational data obtained at 6m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 A. Zasov , A. Saburova , I. Katkov

Context: According to numerical simulations, stars are not always kept at their birth galactocentric distances but migrate. The importance of this radial migration in shaping galactic light distributions is still unclear. However, if it is…

Globular clusters (GCs), the oldest stellar systems observed in the Milky Way, have for long been considered single stellar populations. As such, they provided an ideal laboratory to understand stellar dynamics and primordial star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Sergey Khoperskov , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

Spiral patterns are important agents of galaxy evolution. In this review, I describe how the redistribution of angular momentum by recurrent transient spiral patterns causes the random speeds of stars to rise over time, metallicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-14 J. A. Sellwood

The long-term evolution of stellar orbits bound to a massive centre is studied in order to understand the cores of star clusters in central regions of galaxies. Stellar trajectories undergo tiny perturbation, the origin of which is twofold:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Vokrouhlicky , V. Karas

The presence of giant gaseous planets that reside in close proximity to their host stars may be a consequence of large-scale radial migration through the proto-planetary nebulae. Within the context of this picture, significant orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Konstantin Batygin , Fred C. Adams

We analyse disc heating and radial migration in N-body models of growing disc galaxies with thick and thin discs. Similar to thin-disc-only models, galaxies with appropriate non-axisymmetric structures reproduce observational constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Aumer , James Binney , Ralph Schönrich