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Spiral arms are the defining features of broad morphological classes of disc galaxies, but their nature and influence on galaxy evolution is still under debate. A key diagnostic for their nature is the spiral arm pattern speed: the radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Robert J. J. Grand , Martin Roth

Spiral structure can occupy a significant part of the galaxy, but properly accounting for it in photometric decomposition is rarely done. This may lead to significant errors in the parameters determined. To estimate how exactly neglecting…

The rotation curve is significant to research on dark matter and the structure of the Milky Way. But it is a great challenge to measure rotation curve accurately, and different ways obtain distinct results. In this work, we use a DIY small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Hong-Yu Li , Jia-Hao Hu

There is evidence that the distribution of suspected cosmic ray sources are associated with the spiral arm structure of galaxies. It is yet not clearly understood what effect such a cosmic ray source distribution has on the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Werner , R. Kissmann , A. W. Strong , O. Reimer

We present the current standing of an investigation into the structure of the Milky Way. We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate the ISM gas in the Milky Way under the effect of a number of different gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Alex Pettitt , Clare Dobbs , David Acreman , Daniel Price

We report four trigonometric parallaxes for high-mass star-forming regions within 4 kpc of the Galactic center. These measurements were made with the VLBA as part of the BeSSeL Survey. By associating these sources kinematically with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Sanna , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten , T. M. Dame , B. Zhang , M. Sato , A. Brunthaler , L. Moscadelli , K. Immer

Spiral structure is the most distinctive feature of disk galaxies and yet debate persists about which theory of spiral structure is the correct one. Many versions of the density wave theory demand that the pitch angle is uniquely determined…

The study of the Milky Way structure is vital importance for a better understanding of the universe. This study digs deeper into the structure of Milky Way Galaxys with emphasis to its spiral arms. Multiple data sources were sought…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-25 Jawaher Alsobaie

Gas morphology and kinematics in the Milky Way contain key information for understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. We present a high resolution hydrodynamical simulation based on a realistic barred Milky Way potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Ortwin Gerhard , Jonathan P. Clarke

Isotropic and anisotropic wavelet transforms are used to decompose the images of the spiral galaxy M83 in various tracers to quantify structures in a range of scales from 0.2 to 10 kpc. We used radio polarization observations at {\lambda}6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 P. Frick , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Shukurov , M. Ehle , A. Lundgren

It has been thought for many years that the Milky Way is an overly large spiral galaxy. Using Cephied distances to 17 spiral galaxies we calculate the true linear diameters of those galaxies. These diameters are then compared to that of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. P. Goodwin , J. Gribbin , M. A. Hendry

The Galactic center of the Milky-Way harbors a massive black hole (BH) orbited by a diverse population of young and old stars. A significant fraction of the youngest stars ($\sim4-7$ Myr) reside in a thin stellar disk with puzzling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-02 Hagai B. Perets , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Yohai Meiron , Alessia Gualandris

We present new gas flow models for the Milky Way inside the solar circle. Using a mass model derived from the COBE/DIRBE maps and clump giant star counts, and using a parametric model for the spiral arm pattern in the disk, we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Englmaier , O. E. Gerhard , N. Bissantz

Near the center of our Milky Way is a bar-like structure and the so-called Expanding 3-kpc arms. We currently have limited knowledge of this important region, since we are about 8.2 kpc from the center and cannot directly observe it at…

The spiral structure of the Milky Way is not conclusive, even for the disc regions in the solar neighbourhood. Especially, the arm-like structures uncovered from the over-density maps of evolved stars are inconsistent with the commonly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-09 X. J. Shen , L. G. Hou , H. L. Liu , X. Y. Gao

The magnetic field structure of the Milky Way can offer critical insights into the origin of galactic magnetic fields. Measurements of magnetic structures of the Milky Way are still sparse in far regions of the Galactic disk and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Jun Xu , J. L. Han , Weicong Jing , The SKA Pulsar Science Working Group

Although they are the main constituents of the Galactic disk population, for half of the open clusters in the Milky Way reported in the literature nothing is known except the raw position and an approximate size. The main goal of this study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 N. V. Kharchenko , A. E. Piskunov , E. Schilbach , S. Röser , R. -D. Scholz

We explore the development of structures in molecular gas in the Milky Way by applying the analysis of the brightness distribution function (BDF) and the brightness distribution index (BDI) in the archival data from the Boston…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Tsuyoshi Sawada , Tetsuo Hasegawa , Jin Koda

We have investigated the pitch angle ($\psi$) of the spiral arms of galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS field. The sample consists of 102 face-on galaxies with a two-armed pattern at a mean redshift $\langle z \rangle \approx…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 V. P. Reshetnikov , A. A. Marchuk , I. V. Chugunov , P. A. Usachev , A. V. Mosenkov

In this paper we introduce a new method for analysing Milky Way phase-space which allows us to reveal the imprint left by the Milky Way bar and spiral arms on the stars with full phase-space data in Gaia Data Release 2. The unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 S. Khoperskov , O. Gerhard , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood , D. Katz , S. Khrapov , A. Khoperskov , M. Arnaboldi