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A new model for the luminosity distribution in the inner Milky Way is found, using a non-parametric penalized maximum-likelihood algorithm to deproject a dereddened COBE/DIRBE L-band map of the inner Galaxy. The model is also constrained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolai Bissantz , Ortwin Gerhard

Context. We study a series of response models to investigate the formation of specific morphological features in the central 1 kpc region of the gas component in barred spiral galaxies. Aims. We aim to understand how structures, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Stavros Pastras , Panos A. Patsis , E. Athanassoula

We develop a method for constraining the potential of the Milky Way using stellar streams with a known progenitor. The method expresses the stream in angle-action coordinates and integrates the orbits of the stars backwards in time to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-10 C. G. Palau , W. Wang , J. Han

Observational evidence shows that low-redshift galaxies are surrounded by extended haloes of multiphase gas, the so-called 'circumgalactic medium' (CGM). To study the survival of relatively cool gas (T < 10^5 K) in the CGM, we performed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 L. Armillotta , F. Fraternali , J. K. Werk , J. X. Prochaska , F. Marinacci

We present a novel method for constraining the length of the Galactic bar using 6D phase space information to directly integrate orbits. We define a pseudo-length for the Galactic bar, named $R_{Freq}$, based on the maximal extent of…

Aims: we studied the global distribution and kinematics of the extra-planar neutral gas in the Milky Way. Methods: we built 3D models for a series of Galactic HI layers, projected them for an inside view, and compared them with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Antonino Marasco , Filippo Fraternali

We run hydrodynamical simulations of a 2D isothermal non self-gravitating inviscid gas flowing in a rigidly rotating externally imposed potential formed by only two components: a monopole and a quadrupole. We explore systematically the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-03 Mattia C. Sormani , James Binney , John Magorrian

With a help of hydrodynamical models, we explore fundamental modes of gas flow in central parts of a galaxy potential with non-axisymmetric perturbations of various strengths. Our grid-based algorithm allows us to get a detailed picture of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

We compare molecular gas properties in the starbursting center of NGC253 and the Milky Way Galactic Center (GC) on scales of ~1-100 pc using dendograms and resolution-, area- and noise-matched datasets in CO (1-0) and CO (3-2). We find that…

The structure of the interstellar medium in the central kpc region of a galaxy with a weak bar-like potential is investigated taking into account realistic cooling and heating processes and the self-gravity of the gas. Using high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Wada , J. Koda

We investigate the possibility of describing the spiral pattern of the Milky Way in terms of a model of superposition 2- and 4-armed wave harmonics (the simplest description, besides pure modes). Two complementary methods are used: a study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. R. D. Lepine , Yu. N. Mishurov , S. Yu. Dedikov

We present a study of dense gas emission in the Milky Way in order to serve as a basis for comparison with extragalactic results. This study combines new observations of HCN, CS, and CO in individual GMCs and in the Milky Way plane with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tamara T. Helfer , Leo Blitz

Aims. We constrain the dynamical perturbations of the spiral arms in the Milky Way disk, based on the non-axisymmetric streaming motions of RGB stars revealed by APOGEE and \textit{Gaia}. Methods. We develop a revised steady-state…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xi-Can Tang , Zhi Li , Iulia T. Simion , Hao Tian , Zhijian Luo , Shuting Fan , Zi-Qi Li

In the absence of an interaction, central bars might be the most effective mechanism for radial motions of gas in barred spiral galaxies, which represent two-thirds of disc galaxies. The dynamical effects induced by bars in the first few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-20 O. Cavichia , M. Mollá , R. D. D. Costa , W. J. Maciel

We use numerical simulations to model Gaia DR3 data with the aim of constraining the Milky Way bar and spiral structure parameters. We show that both the morphology and the velocity field in Milky Way-like galactic disc models are strong…

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

(abridged) We investigate the detailed response of gas to the formation of transient and long-lived dynamical structures induced in the early stages of a disk-disk collision, and identify observational signatures of radial gas inflow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daisuke Iono , Min S. Yun , J. Christopher Mihos

In the density wave theory of spiral structure, the grand-design two-armed spiral pattern is taken to rotate rigidly in a galactic disc with a constant, definite pattern speed. The observational measurement of the pattern speed of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 Soumavo Ghosh , Chanda J Jog

We have observed an N-body/Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulation of a Milky Way like barred spiral galaxy. We present a simple method that samples N-body model particles into mock Gaia stellar observations and takes into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Jason A. S. Hunt , Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand , Ivan Minchev , Stefano Pasetto , Mark Cropper

In this work, we derive a spatially resolved map of the line-of-sight velocity of the interstellar medium and use it, along with a second map of line-of-sight velocity from Paper I of this series, to determine the nature of gaseous spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Kirill Tchernyshyov , J. E. G. Peek , Gail Zasowski