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We present three-dimensional self-gravitating smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of an isothermal gaseous disc interacting with an embedded planet. Discs of varying stability are simulated with planets ranging from 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Fabio Governato

Using observational data, we build numerical N-body, hydrodynamical and combined equilibrium models for the spiral galaxy NGC 5247. The models turn out to be unstable towards spiral structure formation. We simulate scenarios of spiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov , I. S. Khrykin , V. I. Korchagin , D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , T. Girard , W. van Altena , D. Maitra

We present hydrodynamic simulations of the inner few parsecs of the Milky Way's Galactic Center that, for the first time, combine a realistic treatment of stellar winds and the circumnuclear disk as they interact with the gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Siddhant Solanki , Sean M. Ressler , Lena Murchikova , James M. Stone , Mark R. Morris

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

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

We use high resolution collisionless $N$-body simulations to study the secular evolution of disk galaxies and in particular the final properties of disks that suffer a bar and perhaps a bar-buckling instability. Although we find that bars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor P. Debattista , C. Marcella Carollo , Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore

The results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of galactic disks, which are submerged into nonaxisymmetric dark massive halo are discussed. Galaxy disks dynamics in the nonaxisymmetric (triaxial) dark halo were investigated in detail…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-15 Alexander Khoperskov , Mikhail Eremin , Sergej Khoperskov , Marija Butenko , Sergej Khrapov

The Gaia satellite revealed a remarkable spiral pattern ('phase spiral', PS) in the z-Vz phase-plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where z and Vz are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the Galactic plane. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Timothy R. Bedding , Christoph Federrath , Oscar Agertz

We present a set of global, self-consistent N-body/SPH simulations of the dynamic evolution of galactic discs with gas and including magnetic fields. We have implemented a description to follow the evolution of magnetic fields with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Kotarba , H. Lesch , K. Dolag , T. Naab , P. H. Johansson , F. A. Stasyszyn

By means of 3D hydrodynamical simulations, in a separate paper we have discussed the properties of non-axisymmetric density wave trains in the outermost regions of galaxy disks, based on the picture that self-excited global spiral modes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 S. A. Khoperskov , G. Bertin

We generate synthetic HI Galactic plane surveys from spiral galaxy simulations which include stellar feedback processes. Compared to a model without feedback we find an increased scale height of HI emission (in better agreement with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 David M. Acreman , Clare L. Dobbs , Christopher M. Brunt , Kevin A. Douglas

The nuclei of galaxies often host small stellar discs with scale-lengths of a few tens of parsecs and luminosities up to 10^7 Lsun. To investigate the formation and properties of nuclear stellar discs (NSDs), we look for their presence in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Portaluri , E. M. Corsini , L. Morelli , M. Hartmann , E. Dalla Bontà , Victor P. Debattista , A. Pizzella

We develop diagnostics based on gas kinematics to identify the presence of a bar in an edge-on spiral galaxy and determine its orientation. We use position-velocity diagrams (PVDs) obtained by projecting edge-on two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Athanassoula , M. Bureau

We study the effect of mergers on the morphology of galaxies by means of the simulated merger tree approach first proposed by Moster et al. This method combines N-body cosmological simulations and semi-analytic techniques to extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Rahul Kannan , Andrea V. Maccio' , Fabio Fontanot , Benjamin P. Moster , Wouter Karman , Rachel S. Somerville

We present here a self-consistent, tridimensional model of a disc galaxy composed by a number of ellipsoidal distributions of matter having different flattening and density profile. The model is self-consistent and takes into account the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 E. Pignatelli , G. Galletta

We present a new model of the three-dimensional distribution of molecular gas in the Milky Way Galaxy, based on CO line data. Our analysis is based on a gas-flow simulation of the inner Galaxy using smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Martin Pohl , Peter Englmaier , Nicolai Bissantz

Different ways of the determination of masses of galactic disks, based on the kinematic data, are briefly discussed. The analysis of the rotation curves which reach maximum inside of a disk, and N-body modeling, reproducing the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Zasov , A. V. Khoperskov , N. V. Tyurina

To date, most numerical simulations of molecular clouds, and star formation within them, assume a uniform density sphere or box with an imposed turbulent velocity field. In this work, we select molecular clouds from galactic scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Ramon Rey-Raposo , Clare Dobbs , Ana Duarte-Cabral

A combined N--body/SPH code is presented which benefits from the high speed of the special purpose hardware GRAPE (GRAvity PipE). Besides gravitational forces, GRAPE also returns the list of neighbours and can, therefore, be used to speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Steinmetz

N-body dynamical simulations are used to analyze the conditions for the gravitational stability of a three-dimensional stellar disk in the gravitational field of two rigid spherical components--a bulge and a halo whose central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Khoperskov , A. V. Zasov , N. V. Tyurina