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[PASJ Review Paper] Rotation curves are the basic tool for deriving the distribution of mass in spiral galaxies. In this review, we describe various methods to measure rotation curves in the Milky Way and spiral galaxies. We then describe…

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We present a qualitative diagnostic based on the continuous wavelet transform, for the detection of irregular behavior in time series of particle simulations. We apply the method to three qualitatively different gravitational 3-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jort Gemmeke , Simon Portegies Zwart , Chael Kruip

Due to the emergence of new high resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and the availability of new or more reliable remote sensing data, the importance of efficient spatial verification techniques is growing. Wavelet…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Michael Weniger , Florian Kapp , Petra Friederichs

We present rotation curves derived for a sample of 62 late-type dwarf galaxies that have been observed as part of the Westerbork HI Survey of Spiral and Irregular Galaxies (WHISP) project. The rotation curves were derived by interactively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Swaters , R. Sancisi , T. S. van Albada , J. M. van der Hulst

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

Can the present dynamics of spiral galaxies tell us something about the merging history, the formation and evolution of disks? Galaxy interactions thicken or destroy disks; the simultaneous presence of thick and thin disks is a tracer of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

We use an automated galaxy morphology analysis method to quantitatively measure the spirality of galaxies classified manually as elliptical. The data set used for the analysis consists of 60,518 galaxy images with redshift obtained by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Levente Dojcsak , Lior Shamir

Recent high-resolution observations have shown stellar winds to harbour complexities which strongly deviate from spherical symmetry, generally assumed as standard wind model. One such morphology is the archimedean spiral, generally believed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ward Homan , Leen Decin , Alex de Koter , Allard Jan van Marle , Robin Lombaert , Wouter Vlemmings

A technique is introduced for deriving the gaseous rotation curves of edge-on spiral galaxies. The entire major axis position-velocity (XV) diagram is modeled with a set of rings in a least-squares sense, allowing for the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

Rotation curves of spiral galaxies are known with reasonable precision for a large number of galaxies with similar morphologies. The data implies that non-Keplerian fall--off is seen. This implies that (i) large amounts of dark matter must…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 C. Rodrigo-Blanco , J. Pérez-Mercader

We measure the Galactic rotation curve and its first two vertical derivatives in the first and fourth quadrants of the Milky Way using the 21 cm VGPS and SGPS. We find tangent velocities of the atomic gas as a function of galactic longitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. S. Levine , Carl Heiles , Leo Blitz

Observations reveal that mature spiral galaxies consist of stars, gases and plasma approximately distributed in a thin disk of circular shape, usually with a central bulge. The rotation velocities quickly increase from the galactic center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 C. F. Gallo , James Q. Feng

Subjective classification of spiral galaxies is not sufficient for studying the effect of bars on their physical characteristics. In reality the problem is to comprehend the complex correlations in a multivariate parametric space.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-13 Prasenjit Banerjee , Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

The dark matter distribution of the Milky Way remains among the major unsolved problems about our home galaxy. The masses of other spiral galaxies can be determined from their rotation curves through long-slit spectroscopy. But for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Peter M. Frinchaboy , Steven R. Majewski

We estimate the vertical gradient of rotational velocity for several spiral galaxies in the framework of a global thin-disc model, using the approximation of quasi-circular orbits. We obtain gradients having a broad range of values, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-04-27 Joanna Jałocha , Łukasz Bratek , Marek Kutschera , Piotr Skindzier

Recent JWST observations have revealed the prevalence of spiral structures at $z > 1$. Unlike in the local Universe, the origin and the consequence of spirals at this epoch remain unexplored. We use public JWST/NIRCam data from the…

To address questions about the physical nature and origin of spiral arms in galaxies, it is necessary to measure their dynamical properties, such as the angular speed, $\Omega_p$, or the corotation radius. Observations suggest that galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-19 Alexander A. Marchuk

Galactic rotation curve is a powerful indicator of the state of the gravitational field within a galaxy. The flatness of these curves indicates the presence of dark matter in galaxies and their clusters. In this paper, we focus on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Gayatri Mohan , Umananda Dev Goswami

We discuss a model for the Milky Way obtained by fitting the observed terminal velocities with the radial acceleration relation. The resulting stellar surface density profile departs from a smooth exponential disk, having bumps and wiggles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Stacy McGaugh

Spiral shocks are potentially a major source of turbulence in the interstellar medium. To address this problem quantitatively, we use numerical simulations to investigate gas flow across spiral arms in vertically stratified,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker