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In earlier papers in this series we determined the intrinsic stellar disc kinematics of fifteen intermediate to late type edge-on spiral galaxies using a dynamical modeling technique. From the photometry we find that intrinsically more…

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We have observationally quantified the effect of gravitational torques on stars in disk galaxies due to the stellar distribution itself and explored whether these torques are efficient at transporting angular momentum within a Hubble Time.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Foyle , H. -W. Rix , S. Zibetti

We study dynamics of bars in models of disk galaxies embeded in realistic dark matter halos. We find that disk thickness plays an important, if not dominant, role in the evolution and structure of the bars. We also make extensive numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Klypin , O. Valenzuela , P. Colin , T. Quinn

Internal waves propagating in stellar radiative zones can lead to efficient angular momentum transport, that should occur throughout the whole lifetime of stars. They thus play a key role in shaping the internal rotation profile of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Q. André , S. Mathis , L. Amard

We identify migrating stars in an N-body simulation of a Milky-Way-like disk. Outward migration can occur when a star in a low eccentricity orbit lags a short-lived local spiral arm density peak. We interpret short lived local density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-27 Justin Comparetta , Alice C. Quillen

Using the RAdial Velocity Experiment fourth data release (RAVE DR4), and a new metallicity calibration that will be also taken into account in the future RAVE DR5, we investigate the existence and the properties of super-solar metallicity…

Near the corotation resonance of a transient spiral arm, stellar orbital angular momenta may be changed without inducing significant kinematic heating, resulting in what has come to be known as radial migration. When radial migration is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-22 Kathryne J. Daniel , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

The rotation of horizontal branch stars places important constraints on angular momentum evolution in evolved stars and therefore rotational mixing on the giant branch. Prompted by new observations of rotation rates of horizontal branch…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Sills , M. Pinsonneault

We run N-body smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a Milky Way sized galaxy. The code takes into account hydrodynamics, self-gravity, star formation, supernova and stellar wind feedback, radiative cooling and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

We study mass transfers between debris discs during stellar encounters. We carried out numerical simulations of close flybys of two stars, one of which has a disc of planetesimals represented by test particles. We explored the parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Lucie Jilkova , Adrian S. Hamers , Michael Hammer , Simon Portegies Zwart

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 $<$ $R$ $<$ 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize the median, dispersion and skewness of the distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Yaqian Wu , Maosheng Xiang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Chengdong Li , Yaguang Li , Yang Huang

We compute different sets of stellar evolutionary tracks in order to quantify the energy, mass, and metals yielded by massive main-sequence and post-main-sequence winds. Our aim is to investigate the impact of binary systems and of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-26 Yvonne A. Fichtner , Luca Grassitelli , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Cristiano Porciani

A prerequisite for the formation of stars and planetary systems is that angular momentum is transported in some way from the inner regions of the accretion disc. Tidal effects may play an important part in this angular momentum transport.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pfalzner

We investigate the kinematic signatures induced by spiral and bar structure in a set of simulations of Milky Way-sized spiral disc galaxies. The set includes test particle simulations that follow a quasi-stationary density wave-like…

We employ measurements of the [alpha/Fe] ratio derived from low-resolution (R~2000) spectra of 17,277 G-type dwarfs from the SEGUE survey to separate them into likely thin- and thick-disk subsamples. Both subsamples exhibit strong gradients…

We consider the inner $\sim$ AU of a protoplanetary disk (PPD), at a stage where angular momentum transport is driven by the mixing of a radial magnetic field into the disk from a T-Tauri wind. Because the radial profile of the imposed…

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We present a numerical Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) study of the dependence of stellar mass and angular momentum- loss rates on the orbital distance to close-in giant planets. We find that the mass loss rate drops by a factor of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 O. Cohen , J. J Drake , V. L. Kashyap , I. V. Sokolov , T. I. Gombosi

Meridional circulation in stratified stellar/planetary interiors in the presence of stable molecular weight gradients remains poorly understood, thereby affecting angular momentum transport in evolutionary models. We extend the downward…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Deepayan Banik , Kristen Menou , Evan H. Anders

We investigate the migration of low-mass planets ($5 M_{\oplus}$ and $20 M_{\oplus}$) in accretion discs threaded with a magnetic field using 2D MHD code in polar coordinates. We observed that, in the case of a strong azimuthal magnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 M. L. Comins , M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , R. V. E. Lovelace

More than half of all stars are part of binaries, and many form in a common circumbinary disc. The interaction with the binary shapes the disc to feature a large eccentric inner cavity and spirals in the inner disc. The shape of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Richard A. Booth , Richard P. Nelson , Christoph M. Schäfer , Wilhelm Kley