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Nuclear rings are long-lived structures, allowing the molecular gas inside to become sufficiently dense to initiate star formation. This makes them a crucial element in the study of secular evolution. However, the morphology of nuclear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 P. Jiménez-Sánchez , S. Comerón , A. Prieto , J. H. Knapen

In this and in a previous paper (Romero-Gomez et al. 2006) we propose a theory to explain the formation of both spirals and rings in barred galaxies using a common dynamical framework. It is based on the orbital motion driven by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Romero-Gomez , E. Athanassoula , J. J. Masdemont , C. Garcia-Gomez

We bring the two color maps for the plane component magnetic field of our Galaxy in coordinates of (R;l) and (DM;l). It was shown that magnetic field has reversals of the direction in neighbor spiral arms, in agreement with known models for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-06 R. Andreasyan , S. Balayan , V. Movsisyan

We investigate the structure of the Milky Way by determining how features in a spatial map correspond to CO features in a velocity map. We examine structures including logarithmic spiral arms, a ring and a bar. We explore the available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 C. L. Dobbs , A. Burkert

This paper, the first of two, introduces an observational study of spiral structure in galaxies chosen from the SINGS survey. Near infrared (NIR) and optical data are used to produce mass surface density maps, and from these the morphology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Kendall , R. C. Kennicutt , C. Clarke

We have carried out survey observations toward the Galactic plane at l~38 deg in the 12CO and 13CO J=1-0 lines using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45-m telescope. A wide area (0.8 x 0.8 deg) was mapped with high spatial resolution (17").…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-06-06 Tsuyoshi Sawada , Tetsuo Hasegawa , Masahiro Sugimoto , Jin Koda , Toshihiro Handa

We investigate the morphology and kinematics of the Galactic spiral structure based on a new sample of O- and early B-type stars. We select 6,858 highly confident OB star candidates from the combined data of the VST Photometric H$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-11 Chen Bingqiu , Huang Yang , Hou Ligang , Tian Hao , Li Guangxing , Yuan Haibo , Wang Haifeng , Wang Chun , Tian Zhijia , Liu Xiaowei

We combine optical and radio observations to trace the spiral structure in the Third Quadrant of the Milky Way. The optical observations consist of a large sample of young open clusters and associations, whereas the radio observations…

We present a panoptic view of the stellar structure in the Galactic disk's outer reaches commonly known as the Monoceros Ring, based on data from Pan-STARRS1. These observations clearly show the large extent of the stellar overdensities on…

We start from the author's metric for a rotating and accelerating Universe and we calculate the force acting on a particle in it. This force consists of two parts: one is derived from a potential, and the other describes a Coriolis force…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Evangelos Chaliasos

The solar neighborhood contains disc stars that have recently crossed spiral arms in the Galaxy. We propose that boundaries in local velocity distributions separate stars that have recently crossed or been perturbed by a particular arm from…

The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey provides high-quality broad-band optical images of a large sample of nearby galaxies for detailed study of their structure. To probe the physical nature and possible cosmological evolution of spiral arms, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Si-Yue Yu , Luis C. Ho , Aaron J. Barth , Zhao-Yu Li

In the present work we investigate the properties of 18 embedded clusters (ECs). The sample includes 11 previously known clusters and we report the discovery of 7 ECs on WISE images, thus complementing our recent list of 437 new clusters.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-09 Denilso Camargo , Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica

The distribution of young open clusters in the Galactic plane suggests the existence of the outer ring R1R2' in the Galaxy. The solar position angle theta_b providing the best agreement between the observed and model distribution is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Anna Mel'nik , Pertti Rautiainen , Elena Glushkova , Andrei Dambis

We have studied a sample of Galactic classical Cepheids with their distance estimates taken from Skowron et al. (2019), where they were determined based on the period-luminosity relation. In this paper the Skowron et al. (2019) distances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-23 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova

Models of the Galaxy with analytical Ferrers bars can reproduce the residual velocities of OB-associations in the Sagittarius, Perseus and Local System stellar-gas complexes located within 3 kpc solar neighborhood. Ferrers ellipsoids with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-12 Anna M. Melnik

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

The outer regions of galaxies are expected to contain important clues about the way in which galaxies are assembled. Although quantitative study of these parts has been severely limited in the past, breakthroughs are now being made thanks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Annette Ferguson

Based on 32162 molecular clouds from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project, we obtain new face-on molecular gas maps of the northern outer Galaxy. The total molecular gas surface density map reveals three segments of spirals,…

We investigate the possibility of describing the spiral pattern of the Milky Way in terms of a model of superposition 2- and 4-armed wave harmonics (the simplest description, besides pure modes). Two complementary methods are used: a study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. R. D. Lepine , Yu. N. Mishurov , S. Yu. Dedikov