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Using the potential from N-body simulations, we construct the Galactic bar models with the Schwarzschild method. By varying the pattern speed and the position angle of the bar, we find that the best-fit bar model has pattern speed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Yougang Wang , Shude Mao , Richard J. Long , Juntai Shen

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

We provide a purely dynamical global map of the non-axisymmetric structure of the Milky Way disk. For this, we exploit the information contained within the in-plane motions of disk stars from Gaia DR3 to adjust a model of the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Y. R. Khalil , B. Famaey , G. Monari , M. Bernet , A. Siebert , R. Ibata , G. F. Thomas , P. Ramos , T. Antoja , C. Li , S. Rozier , M. Romero-Gómez

We present a suite of direct $N$-body simulations of the Hyades open cluster and its tidal stream in a Milky Way potential that includes a rotating bar and spiral arms. Using the high-resolution code PETAR and an AGAMA-based multi-component…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Zi-yi Zhou , Long Wang , Tereza Jerabkova , Zhenghao He

We construct a model for the Milky Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter halo. All components are modelled as $N$-body systems with up to 8 billion equal-mass particles and integrated up to an age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Michiko S. Fujii , Jeroen Bédorf , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart

The escape velocity profile of the Milky Way offers a crucial and independent measurement of its underlying mass distribution and dark matter properties. Using a sample of stars from Gaia DR3 with 6D kinematics and strict quality cuts, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Cian Roche , Lina Necib , Tongyan Lin , Xiaowei Ou , Tri Nguyen

We present a new model for the gas dynamics in the galactic disk inside the Sun's orbit. Quasi-equilibrium flow solutions are determined in the gravitational potential of the deprojected COBE NIR bar and disk, complemented by a central cusp…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Englmaier , Ortwin Gerhard

Using 3D hydrodynamic calculations we simulate formation of molecular clouds in the Galaxy. The simulations take into account molecular hydrogen chemical kinetics, cooling and heating processes. Comprehensive gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

Co-moving groups of stars (streams) are well known in the velocity space of the disc near the Sun. Many are thought to arise from resonances with the Galactic bar or spiral arms. In this work, we search for similar moving groups in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam M. Dillamore , Jason L. Sanders , Vasily Belokurov , Hanyuan Zhang

The large-scale gaseous shocks in the bulge of M31 can be naturally explained by a rotating stellar bar. We use gas dynamical models to provide an independent measurement of the bar pattern speed in M31. The gravitational potentials of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-14 Zi-Xuan Feng , Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Ortwin Gerhard , Roberto Saglia , Matias Blana , Hui Li , Yingjie Jing

The distribution of moving groups in the solar neighborhood has been used to constrain dynamical properties of the Milky Way for decades. The kinematic bimodality between the main mode (Hyades, Pleiades, Coma Berenices, and Sirius) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Scott Lucchini , Elena D'Onghia , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri

Using simulations of box/peanut- (B/P-) shaped bulges, we explore the nature of the X-shape of the Milky Way's bulge. An X-shape can be associated with a B/P-shaped bulge driven by a bar. By comparing in detail the simulations and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-28 Esko Gardner , Victor P. Debattista , Annie C. Robin , Sergio Vásquez , Manuela Zoccali

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

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with the Schechter characteristic luminosity $L_*$, thus an important anchor point of the Hubble sequence of all spiral galaxies. Yet the true appearance of the Milky Way has remained elusive for centuries.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-21 Juntai Shen , Xing-Wu Zheng

Identifying the structure of our Galaxy has always been fraught with difficulties, and while modern surveys continue to make progress building a map of the Milky Way, there is still much to understand. The arm and bar features are important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alex R. Pettitt , Sarah E. Ragan , Martin C. Smith

Using observational data on the kinematical properties and density distributions of the subsystems of the Milky Way galaxy, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of its disk. The dynamics of the disk is studied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 V. I. Korchagin , S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Khoperskov

We present mass models of the Milky Way created to fit observational constraints and to be consistent with expectations from theoretical modelling. The method used to create these models is that demonstrated in McMillan (2011), and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Paul J. McMillan

We present a new method for fitting simple hydrodynamical models to the (l,v) distribution of atomic and molecular gas observed in the Milky Way. The method works by matching features found in models and observations. It is based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Mattia C. Sormani , John Magorrian

In this paper we analyse the methodology to derive the bar pattern speed from dynamical simulations. The results are robust to the changes in the vertical-scale height and in the mass-to-light (M/L) ratios. There is a small range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-08 I. Perez , K. C. Freeman , R. Fux , A. Zurita

We use hydrodynamical simulations to construct a new coherent picture for the gas flow in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), the region of our Galaxy within $R\leq 500\, \mathrm{pc}$. We relate connected structures observed in $(l,b,v)$ data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-13 Matthew Ridley , Mattia C. Sormani , Robin G. Treß , John Magorrian , Ralf S. Klessen