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A substantial fraction of the warps in spiral galaxies may result from bending instabilities if the disks are essentially self-gravitating. With N-body simulations, we show that galaxies with self-gravitating disks as thick as HI disks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yves Revaz , Daniel Pfenniger

We run N-body smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a Milky Way sized galaxy. The code takes into account hydrodynamics, self-gravity, star formation, supernova and stellar wind feedback, radiative cooling and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

We perform 3D SPH simulations of warped, non-coplanar gravitationally unstable discs to show that as the warp propagates through the self-gravitating disc, it heats up the disc rendering it gravitationally stable. Thus losing their spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru

Motivated by observations of disk galaxies with counter-rotating stars, we have run two-dimensional, collisionless N-body simulations of disk galaxies with significant counter-rotating components. For all our simulations the initial value…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Neil F. Comins , Richard V. E. Lovelace , Thomas Zeltwanger , Peter Shorey

Protoplanetary disks can exhibit asymmetric temperature variations due to phenomena such as shadows cast by the inner disk or localized heating by young planets. We investigate the disk features induced by these asymmetric temperature…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Zhaohuan Zhu , Shangjia Zhang , Ted Johnson

We present the numerical study of the formation of spiral structure in the context of violent relaxation. Initial conditions are the out-of-equilibrium disks of self-gravitating particles in rigid rotation. By that mechanism, robust and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Tirawut Worrakitpoonpon

The ``galactic shocks'' \citep{fujimoto68,roberts69} is investigated using a full three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, taking into account self-gravity of the ISM, radiative cooling, and star formation followed by energy feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiichi Wada

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations have demonstrated that the structure of a protoplanetary disc may be strongly affected by a planet orbiting in a plane that is misaligned to the disc. When the planet is able to open a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Rebecca Nealon , Christophe Pinte , Richard Alexander , Daniel Mentiplay , Giovanni Dipierro

The manifold theory of barred-spiral structure provides a dynamical mechanism explaining how spiral arms beyond the ends of galactic bars can be supported by chaotic flows extending beyond the bar's co-rotation zone. We discuss its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 C. Efthymiopoulos , P. E. Kyziropoulos , R. I. Paez , K. Zouloumi , G. A. Gravvanis

Protoplanetary disks observed in millimeter continuum and scattered light show a variety of substructures. Various physical processes in the disk could trigger such features -- one of which that has been previously theorized for passive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Prakruti Sudarshan , Mario Flock , Alexandros Ziampras , David Melon Fuksman , Tilman Birnstiel

Theories of stellar spiral arms in disk galaxies can be grouped into two classes based on the longevity of a spiral arm. Although the quasi-stationary density wave theory supposes that spirals are rigidly-rotating, long-lived patterns, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Junichi Baba , Kana Morokuma-Matsui , Fumi Egusa

We present results from a detailed dynamical analysis of five high surface brightness, late type spirals, studied with the aim to quantify the luminous-to-dark matter ratio inside their optical radii. The galaxies' stellar light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thilo Kranz , Adrianne Slyz , Hans-Walter Rix

Aims: Density waves are often considered as the triggering mechanism of star formation in spiral galaxies. Our aim is to study relations between different star formation tracers (stellar UV and near-IR radiation and emission from HI, CO and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Peeter Tenjes , Taavi Tuvikene , Antti Tamm , Rain Kipper , Elmo Tempel

Context: Vertically hydrostatic protoplanetary disk models are based on the assumption that the main heating source, stellar irradiation, does not vary much with time. However, it is known that accreting young stars are variable sources of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. D. Schneider , C. P. Dullemond , B. Bitsch

Gaia data have revealed vertically asymmetric phase-space structures in the Milky Way (MW) disc, such as phase spirals, indicating vertical oscillations. These oscillations exhibit two distinct modes: the bending mode and the breathing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Tetsuro Asano , Michiko S. Fujii , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

Galaxies moving through the gas of the intracluster medium (ICM) experience ram pressure stripping, which can leave behind a gas tail. When a disk galaxy receives the wind edge-on, however, the characteristic signature is not a typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Rubens E. G. Machado , Caroline F. O. Grinberg , Elvis A. Mello-Terencio

The dynamics of thin liquid films flowing over a spinning disc is studied through a combination of experiments and direct numerical simulations. We consider a comprehensive range of interfacial flow regimes from waveless through to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-18 Jason Stafford , Nwachukwu Uzo , Enrico Piccoli , Camille Petit , Omar K. Matar

The vertical phase-space spirals in the Milky Way are clear evidence of disequilibrium. However, they are challenging to study because phase mixing signals evolve under the influence of many different dynamical processes and can be driven…

Hydrodynamic simulations suggest that galactic gas disks form when coplanar gas spirals into the inner regions of the disk. We recently presented a simple "modified accretion disk" model of viscous galactic disks in which star-formation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Enci Wang , Simon J. Lilly

Within the standard hierarchical structure formation scenario, Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes have hundreds of dark matter subhaloes with mass $\gtrsim 10^8 \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$. Over the lifetime of a galactic disc a fraction of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-12 Shaoran Hu , Debora Sijacki