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The Galactic disk is expected to be spatially, kinematically, and chemically clustered on many scales due to both star formation and non-axisymmetries in the Galactic potential. In this work we calculate the spatial and kinematic two-point…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Kareem El-Badry

We use K-giant stars selected from the LAMOST DR5 to study the variation of the rotational velocity of the galactic halo at different space positions. Modelling the rotational velocity distribution with both the halo and disk components, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Yougang Wang , Yan Xu , Chengqun Yang , Bo Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue

In this letter we study the mean sizes of Halpha clumps in turbulent disk galaxies relative to kinematics, gas fractions, and Toomre Q. We use 100~pc resolution HST images, IFU kinematics, and gas fractions of a sample of rare, nearby…

We recently developed an automated method, auto-GMM to decompose simulated galaxies. It extracts kinematic structures in an accurate, efficient, and unsupervised way. We use auto-GMM to study the stellar kinematic structures of disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson , Dongyao Zhao , Lars Hernquist

We present a case study of stellar clumps in G04-1, a clumpy, turbulent disk galaxy located at $z$ = 0.13 from the DYNAMO sample, using adaptive optics enabled K-band imaging ($\sim2.25$ kpc/arcsec) with Keck/NIRC2. We identify 15 stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Heidi A. White , Deanne B. Fisher , Roberto G. Abraham , Karl Glazebrook , Danail Obreschkow

The spin of dark halos has been shown to significantly affect bar formation and evolution in disk galaxies. To understand the physical role of the halo spin on bar formation, we run $N$-body simulations of isolated, Milky Way-sized galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Dajeong Jang , Woong-Tae Kim

High-resolution N--body simulations show a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed through dissipationless hierarchical clustering. Independent of halo mass, power spectrum, and cosmological parameters, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Julio F. Navarro

A dynamical characterization of dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies from their observed effects on galactic disks (i.e. Galactoseismology) has remained an elusive goal. Here, we present preliminary results from spectroscopic observations…

Recent observations have suggested that circumstellar disks may commonly form around young stellar objects. Although the formation of circumstellar disks can be a natural result of the conservation of angular momentum in the parent cloud,…

Massive stellar clumps in high redshift galaxies interact and migrate to the center to form a bulge and exponential disk in <1 Gyr. Here we consider the fate of intermediate mass black holes (BHs) that might form by massive-star coalescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Frederic Bournaud , Debra Meloy Elmegreen

We numerically investigate evolution of gaseous halos around disk galaxies in different environments ranging from small groups to rich clusters in order to understand galaxy evolution in these environments. Our simulations self-consistently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kenji Bekki

I studied giant discy galaxies with optical radii more than 30 kpc. The comparison of these systems with discy galaxies of moderate sizes revealed that they tend to have higher rotation velocities, B-band luminosities, HI masses and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Anna Saburova

We present a comprehensive study of the kinematic properties of the different Galactic disk populations, as defined by the chemical abundance ratios and stellar ages, across a large disk volume (4.5 $\leq$ R $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and $|Z|$ $\leq$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Weixiang Sun , Yang Huang , Han Shen , Chun Wang , Huawei Zhang , Zhijia Tian , Xiaowei Liu , Biwei Jiang

We present results of numerical modeling made for the galactic stellar disk embedded in the spherical halo. The non-linear dynamics of bending instabilities developed in the disk is studied. The axisymmetrical bending mode is considered as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bizyaev , A. Khoperskov , N. Tiurina

I summarize recent observations of the kinematics of hot tracers in elliptical galaxy halos (globular clusters, planetary nebulae, and integrated stellar light), and what these tell us about the dynamics, dark matter content, and formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Terry Bridges

We explore the initial conditions for fragments in the extended regions ($r\gtrsim 50$ AU) of gravitationally unstable disks. We combine analytic estimates for the fragmentation of spiral arms with 3D SPH simulations to show that initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Aaron C. Boley , Tristen Hayfield , Lucio Mayer , Richard H. Durisen

We investigate the gravitational interactions between live stellar disks and their dark matter halos, using LCDM haloes similar in mass to that of the Milky Way taken from the Aquarius Project. We introduce the stellar disks by first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jackson DeBuhr , Chung-Pei Ma , Simon D. M. White

We examine the nature of kpc-scale clumps seen in high-redshift galaxies using a suite of cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. We identify rest-frame UV clumps in mock HST images smoothed to 500 pc resolution, and compare them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-16 Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We study the dynamical evolution of disk and halo globular clusters in the Milky Way using a series of Fokker-Planck calculations combined with parametric statistical models. Our sample of 113 clusters with velocity data is predicted to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chigurupati Murali , Martin D. Weinberg

We present Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations for spiral galaxies modelled as a stellar disk and a two-phase clumpy dust distribution. We divide the volume occupied by the dust into a three-dimensional grid and assign each cell a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simone Bianchi , Andrea Ferrara , Jon Davies , Paul Alton