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We study the bar-driven dynamics in the inner part of the Milky Way by using invariant manifolds. This theory has been successfully applied to describe the morphology and kinematics of rings and spirals in external galaxies, and now, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Romero-Gomez , E. Athanassoula , T. Antoja , F. Figueras

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 regularity/chaoticity of orbits of 45 globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are subject to the greatest influence of the elongated rotating bar, is analyzed. Various methods of analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev

It has recently been proposed that if the Galactic dark matter halo were triaxial it would induce lumpiness in the velocity distribution of halo stars in the Solar Neighbourhood through orbital resonances. These substructures could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-12 Casper Hesp , Amina Helmi

The structure and kinematics of the recognized stellar components of the Milky Way are explored, based on well-determined atmospheric parameters and kinematic quantities for 32360 calibration stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate global behavior of the spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model in gravitational theory with a non-minimally coupled scalar field and a constant potential function. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

Determining the velocity field of structures such as galaxies, stars, and fluid planets is a relevant topic in astrophysics and astronomy. Depending on the shape of the astrophysical object, the internal velocity field may be obtained by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Hilario Rodrigues

The mechanism accelerating cosmic rays in the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxy clusters is identified and described. The acceleration of cosmic rays is a purely electrostatic process which operates up to the maximum energies of $10^{23}$ eV in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-10 Antonio Codino

In this paper the recent interaction model over post-Newtonian theory of gravity has been used to study the stellar dynamics. It implies space time fabric that built over the massive object gets perturbed or literally contracted in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Shubhen Biswas

Using a single N-body simulation ($N=0.14\times 10^9$) we explore the formation, evolution and spatial variation of the phase-space spirals similar to those recently discovered by Antoja et al. in the Milky Way disk, with Gaia DR2. For the…

The Milky Way is a barred galaxy whose central bulge has a box/peanut shape and consists of multiple stellar populations with different orbit distributions. This review describes dynamical and chemo-dynamical equilibrium models for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Ortwin Gerhard

We investigate the impact of dynamical streams and substructure on estimates of the local escape speed and total mass of Milky Way-mass galaxies from modelling the high velocity tail of local halo stars. We use a suite of high-resolution,…

The distribution of dark energy density in the vicinity of compact static objects is analyzed. Dark energy is assumed to be in the form of a scalar field with three parameters: the background density, the equation of state parameter and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-04 M. Tsizh , B. Novosyadlyj , Yu. Kulinich

Understanding radial migration is a crucial point to build relevant chemical and dynamical evolution models of the Milky Way disk. In this paper, we analyze a high-resolution N-body simulation of a Milky Way-type galaxy to study the role…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 S. Khoperskov , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood , A. Gomez , O. N. Snaith

In the context of increasing appreciation for the coupling between the Galactic bar and the halo, we introduce a new framework using stars trapped in resonance with the bar to probe the Galactic dark matter subhalo population. Since…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Elliot Y. Davies , Adam M. Dillamore , Vasily Belokurov , Lina Necib

Stream stars removed by tides from their progenitor satellite galaxy or globular cluster act as a group of test particles on neighboring orbits, probing the gravitational field of the Milky Way. While constraints from individual streams…

Galaxy interactions/mergers, gravitational instabilities and density waves, such as bars, are frequently invoked to trigger starbursts. These mechanisms have been explored through numerical simulations, with the help of various star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Combes

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the galactic bar on the nature of the orbital motion (chaotic or regular) of globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are subject to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

Using a dataset of stars from a barred galaxy that provides instantaneous positions and velocities in the sky, we propose a method to identify its key structures, such as the central bar and spiral arms, and to determine the bar pattern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 P. Sánchez-Martín , J. Amorós , J. J. Masdemont

The velocity distribution of stars in the Solar neighbourhood is inhomogeneous and rich with stellar streams and kinematic structures. These may retain important clues of the formation and dynamical history of the Milky Way. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Iryna Kushniruk , Thiebaut Schirmer , Thomas Bensby