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We investigate the dynamical response of stellar orbits in a rotating barred galaxy potential to the perturbation by a nuclear gaseous ring. The change in 3D periodic orbit families is examined as the gas accumulates near the inner Lindblad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Heller , I. Shlosman

Context: The Milky Way's history of recent disturbances is vividly demonstrated by a structure in the vertical phase-space distribution known as the Gaia phase spiral. A one-armed phase spiral has been seen widely across the Milky Way disc,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Simon Alinder , Paul McMillan , Thomas Bensby

A method is proposed for the determination of the position and inclination angles of the plane of a spiral galaxy based on the assumption that every spiral arm is a monotonic function of the radius versus azimuthal angle. This method may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Poltorak , A. M. Fridman

Motivated by the ergodic closing lemma of Ma\~n\'e, we investigate the $C^\infty$ closing lemma in higher-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, with a focus on the statistical behavior of periodic orbits generated by $C^\infty$-small…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Erman Cineli , Sobhan Seyfaddini , Shira Tanny

We study the orbit behavior of a four dimensional smooth symplectic diffeomorphism $f$ near a homoclinic orbit $\Gamma$ to an 1-elliptic fixed point under some natural genericity assumptions. 1-elliptic fixed point has two real eigenvalues…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-26 L. Lerman , A. Markova

In the present work we consider a diatomic granular crystal, consisting of alternating aluminum and steel spheres, where the first sphere is an aluminum one. The combination of dissipation, driving of the boundary, and intrinsic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 C. Hoogeboom , Y. Man , N. Boechler , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , I. G. Kevrekidis , C. Daraio

Recent progress toward classifying low-dimensional chaos measured from time series data is described. This classification theory assigns a template to the time series once the time series is embedded in three dimensions. The template…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Nicholas B. Tufillaro

We study transient spiral structures in an isothermal, thin, galactic disc. We find no instability that can grow everywhere from infinitesimal disturbances, but spiral structure does grow in the disc due to an arbitrarily strong,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-07 Richard N Henriksen

In a 2D conservative Hamiltonian system there is a formal integral $\Phi$ besides the energy H. This is not convergent near a stable periodic orbit, but it is convergent near an unstable periodic orbit. We explain this difference and we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-13 G. Contopoulos , C. Efthymiopoulos , M. Katsanikas

Gaseous substructures such as feathers and spurs dot the landscape of spiral arms in disc galaxies. One of the candidates to explain their formation is the wiggle instability of galactic spiral shocks. We study the wiggle instability using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Yash Mandowara , Mattia C. Sormani , Emanuele Sobacchi , Ralf S. Klessen

We consider the evolution of the unstable periodic orbit structure of coupled chaotic systems. This involves the creation of a complicated set outside of the synchronization manifold (the emergent set). We quantitatively identify a critical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Barreto , P. So , B. J. Gluckman , S. J. Schiff

We present a numerical study of the properties of the stellar velocity distribution in stellar discs which have developed a saturated, two-armed spiral structure. We follow the growth of the spiral structure deeply into the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. I. Vorobyov , Ch. Theis

The observed gas dynamics in the Milky Way can only be explained by a bar in the galactic center. Such a bar is directly visible in the near-IR maps of the bulge, where it causes a distinctive asymmetric light distribution pattern. Another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Englmaier

We investigate the dynamical one-armed spiral instability in differentially rotating stars with both eigenmode analysis and hydrodynamic simulations in Newtonian gravity. We find that the one-armed spiral mode is generated around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Motoyuki Saijo , Shin'ichirou Yoshida

Stable and unstable manifolds, originating from hyperbolic cycles, fundamentally characterize the behaviour of dynamical systems in chaotic regions. This letter demonstrates that their shifts under perturbation, crucial for chaos control,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Wenyin Wei , Jiankun Hua , Alexander Knieps , Yunfeng Liang

We investigate dynamical properties of chaotic trajectories in mushroom billiards. These billiards present a well-defined simple border between a single regular region and a single chaotic component. We find that the stickiness of chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo G. Altmann , Adilson E. Motter , Holger Kantz

This chapter provides an overview of chaotic billiard lasers as a prominent branch of quantum chaos. These lasers offer an ideal experimental platform for demonstrating the principles of quantum chaos within a physical system. We begin by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Takahisa Harayama

Magellanic spiral galaxies are a class of one-armed systems that often exhibit an offset stellar bar, and are rarely found around massive spiral galaxies. Using a set of N-body and hydrodynamic simulations we consider a dwarf-dwarf galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-25 Stephen A. Pardy , Elena D'Onghia , E. Athanassoula , Eric M. Wilcots , Kartik Sheth

Celestial bodies approximated with rigid triaxial ellipsoids in a two-body system can rotate chaotically due to the time-varying gravitational torque from the central mass. At small orbital eccentricity values, rotation is short-term…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin , Alexei V. Tkachenko , Dimitri Veras , Benoît Noyelles

Disc stars from the Gaia DR3 RVS catalogue are selected to explore the phase spiral as a function of position in the Galaxy. The data reveal a two-armed phase spiral pattern in the local $z-v_z$ plane inside the solar radius, which appears…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chengdong Li , Arnaud Siebert , Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Simon Rozier