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We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range $0.1-1.6 M_\odot$ throughout their evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial waves in convection zones, and internal gravity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Adrian J. Barker

We use N-body simulations to model the tidal disruption of a star cluster in a Milky-Way-sized dark matter halo, which results in a narrow stream comparable to (but slightly wider than) Pal-5 or GD-1. The mean Galactic dark matter halo is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan , Raymond G. Carlberg

Context. Elongated trails of infalling gas, often referred to as "streamers," have recently been observed around young stellar objects (YSOs) at different evolutionary stages. This asymmetric infall of material can significantly alter star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Aashish Gupta , Anna Miotello , Jonathan P. Williams , Til Birnstiel , Michael Kuffmeier , Hsi-Wei Yen

By decomposing velocity dispersion into non-spin and spin-induced, mean flow and dispersion are analytically solved for axisymmetric rotating and growing halos. The polar flow can be neglected and azimuthal flow is directly related to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-15 Zhijie Xu

We present a novel method to differentiate stream-like and shell-like tidal remnants of stellar systems in galactic halos using the density-based approach of the clustering algorithm AstroLink. While previous studies lean on observation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Viraj Ekanayaka , Smrithi Gireesh Babu , William H. Oliver , Geraint F. Lewis

We present a numerical study of the evolution of galaxy clustering when galaxies flow passively from high redshift, respecting the continuity equation throughout. While passive flow is a special case of galaxy evolution, it allows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hee-Jong Seo , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Idit Zehavi

In this paper we calculate the potential for a prolate spheroidal distribution as in a dark matter halo with a radially varying eccentricity. This is obtained by summing up the shell-by-shell contributions of isodensity surfaces, which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Rathulnath , Chanda J. Jog

We present a technique for constructing equilibrium triaxial N-body haloes with nearly arbitrary density profiles, axial ratios and spin parameters. The method is based on the way in which structures form in hierarchical cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ben Moore , Stelios Kazantzidis , Juerg Diemand , Joachim Stadel

A sample of roughly 1,800 halo subdwarf stars with radial velocities and proper motions is assembled, using the repeated multi-band Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric measurements in Stripe 82. Our sample of halo subdwarfs is extracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 M. C. Smith , N. W. Evans , J. An

Stellar streams -- formed from tidally stripped globular clusters or dwarf galaxies -- are sensitive tracers of a galaxy's accretion history and gravitational potential. While numerous streams are known in the Milky Way (MW), the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Sachi Weerasooriya , Tjitske Starkenburg , Emily C. Cunningham , Kathryn V Johnston

The evolution of globular clusters due to 2-body relaxation results in an outward flow of energy and at some stage all clusters need a central energy source to sustain their evolution. Henon provided the insight that we do not need to know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-17 Mark Gieles , Douglas C. Heggie , HongSheng Zhao

We study the dynamics of faint stellar substructures around the Umbrella Galaxy, NGC 4651, which hosts a dramatic system of streams and shells formed through the tidal disruption of a nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy. We elucidate the…

We study the evolution of streams in a time-dependent spherical gravitational potential. Our goal is to establish what are the imprints of this time evolution on the properties of streams as well as their observability. To this end, we have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Hans J. T. Buist , Amina Helmi

This paper aims to retrieve the ghost streams under the pre-assumption that all the globular clusters in our Galaxy were formed in the very early merge events. The results are based on two speculations: that the specific energy and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Shuang Gao , Bi-Wei Jiang , Yong-Heng Zhao

We have mapped two regions at the northern tip of the Magellanic Stream in neutral hydrogen 21-cm emission using the Arecibo telescope. The new data are used to study the morphology and properties of the Stream far away from the Magellanic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Stanimirovic , J. M. Dickey , M. Krco , A. Brooks

The accretion of massive star clusters via dynamical friction has previously been established to be a likely scenario for the build up of nuclear stellar clusters (NSCs). A remaining issue is whether strong external tidal perturbation may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Long Wang , D. N. C. Lin

In cold dark matter cosmological models, structures form and grow by merging of smaller units. Numerical simulations have shown that such merging is incomplete; the inner cores of halos survive and orbit as "subhalos" within their hosts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Diemand , M. Kuhlen , P. Madau , M. Zemp , B. Moore , D. Potter , J. Stadel

We identify shell-like tidal structures in flattened haloes that appear stream-like under different projections. This projection dependence demonstrates how changes in the host halo directly impact the formation and classification of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Smrithi Gireesh Babu , Viraj Ekanayaka , William H. Oliver , Geraint F. Lewis

Recent years have seen the discovery of many tidal streams through the Galaxy. Relatively straightforward observations of a stream allow one to deduce three phase-space coordinates of an orbit. An algorithm is presented that reconstructs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James Binney