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Galaxy surveys have suggested that rapid and sustained decrease in the star-formation rate, "quenching", in massive disk galaxies is frequently related to the presence of a bar. Optical and near-IR observations reveal that nearly 60% of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 S. Khoperskov , M. Haywood , P. Di Matteo , M. D. Lehnert , F. Combes

We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r<20 and proper-motion measurements derived from SDSS and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000 stars with radial-velocity measurements from the SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 N. A. Bond , Z. Ivezic , B. Sesar , M. Juric , J. Munn

We investigate models of the Milky Way disc taking into account simultaneously the bar and a two-armed quasi-static spiral pattern. Away from major resonance overlaps, the mean stellar radial motions in the plane are essentially a linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Christian Boily

In this paper we model the vertical structure of mass distribution of the Milky Way galaxy in the framework of a finite-width global disk model. Assuming the Galactic rotation curve only, we test inside the solar orbit the predictions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-23 Joanna Jałocha , Szymon Sikora , Łukasz Bratek , Marek Kutschera

We consider a toy model for the supermassive compact object at the galactic center that does not require the presence of a black hole. We assume a matter distribution of weakly interacting particles with a density profile inferred from dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-20 Kuantay Boshkayev , Daniele Malafarina

A brief review is given of different methods used to determine the pattern speeds of the Galactic bar and spiral arms. The Galactic bar rotates rapidly, with corotation about halfway between the Galactic center and the Sun, and outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-15 Ortwin Gerhard

Evidence for the majority of the supermassive black holes in the local universe has been obtained dynamically from stellar motions with the Schwarzschild orbit superposition method. However, there have been only a handful of studies using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Jacob Pilawa , Emily R. Liepold , Chung-Pei Ma

Stellar kinematics provide a window into the gravitational field, and therefore into the distribution of all mass, including dark matter. Deep Potential is a method for determining the gravitational potential from a snapshot of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Taavet Kalda , Gregory M. Green , Soumavo Ghosh

We use the adiabatic compression theory to build a physically well - motivated Milky Way mass model in agreement with the observational data. The visible mass of the Galaxy is distributed in a spheroidal bulge and a multi - components disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. F. Cardone , M. Sereno

We present a suite of direct $N$-body simulations of the Hyades open cluster and its tidal stream in a Milky Way potential that includes a rotating bar and spiral arms. Using the high-resolution code PETAR and an AGAMA-based multi-component…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Zi-yi Zhou , Long Wang , Tereza Jerabkova , Zhenghao He

A model of the Galaxy with the outer ring R1R2 can explain the observed distribution of the radial, VR, and azimuthal, VT, velocity components along the Galactocentric distance, R, derived from the Gaia EDR3 data. We selected stars from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-16 A. M. Melnik , A. K. Dambis , E. N. Podzolkova , L. N. Berdnikov

In this paper we use a modification of the Newtonian gravitational potential with a non-linear Yukawa-like correction, as it was proposed by C. Will earlier to obtain new bounds on graviton mass from the observed orbits of S-stars around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-16 Predrag Jovanović , Vesna Borka Jovanović , Duško Borka , Alexander F. Zakharov

In the present work we have developed a three-dimensional gravitational model of barred galaxies, in order to study orbital and escape dynamics of the stars inside their central barred region. Our gravitational model is composed of four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Debasish Mondal , Tanuka Chattopadhyay

The pattern speed in one of the fundamental parameters that determines the structure of barred galaxies. This quantity is usually derived from indirect methods or by employing model assumptions. The number of bar pattern speeds derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joris Gerssen , Konrad Kuijken , Michael R. Merrifield

Classical Cepheids (CCs) are important probes for the large-scale warp structure of the Milky Way. Using Gaia DR3 CCs, we establish an optimal time-dependent warp model, where the warp height increases with radius following a power-law, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-10 Xiaoyue Zhou , Xiaodian Chen , Licai Deng , Shu Wang , Jiyu Wang , Jianxing Zhang

Galactic bars are found in the majority of disc galaxies. They rotate nearly rigidly with an angular frequency called pattern speed. Previous idealised simulations have shown that bar pattern speed decreases with time due to dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Marcin Semczuk , Walter Dehnen , Ralph Schönrich , E. Athanassoula

The Milky Way is widely considered to exhibit features of a rotational bar or quadrupole bar. In either case, the feature of the resonance of the Galactic bar should be present in the properties of the chemistry and kinematics, over a large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) is a flattened high-density stellar structure that dominates the gravitational field of the Milky Way at Galactocentric radius $30\lesssim R\lesssim 300$ pc. We construct axisymmetric self-consistent…

One of the challenges related to stellar bars is to accurately determine the length of the bar in a disc galaxy. In the literature, a wide variety of methods have been employed to measure the extent of a bar. However, a systematic study on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-19 Soumavo Ghosh , Paola Di Matteo

We present improved estimates of several global properties of the Milky Way, including its current star formation rate (SFR), the stellar mass contained in its disk and bulge+bar components, as well as its total stellar mass. We do so by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-25 Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman