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The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

In this work, we explore the motion of a twisted particle possessing intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) as it traverses a weak stellar gravitational field, which we approximate using a polytropic model. We disregard the spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Dan-Dan Lian , Peng-Ming Zhang

The secular behavior of an orbit under the gravitational perturbation due to a two-dimensional uniform disk is studied in this paper, through analytical and numerical approaches. We develop the secular approximation of this problem and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Tao Liu , Xue-Qing Xu , Xin-Hao Liao

The motion of a stellar compact object around a supermassive black hole can be approximated by the motion of a spinning test particle. The equations of motion describing such systems are in general non-integrable, and therefore, chaotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Correlations between stellar chemistry and kinematics have long been used to gain insight into the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. Orbital angular momentum is a key physical parameter and it is often estimated from three-dimensional…

We probe the feasibility of describing the structure of a multi-component axisymmetric galaxy with a dynamical model based on the Jeans equations while taking into account a third integral of motion. We demonstrate that using the third…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Rain Kipper , Peeter Tenjes , Olga Tihhonova , Antti Tamm , Elmo Tempel

The migration of growing protoplanets depends on the thermodynamics of the ambient disc. Standard modelling, using locally isothermal discs, indicate in the low planet mass regime an inward (type-I) migration. Taking into account…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Willy Kley , Bertram Bitsch , Hubert Klahr

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

We present the rotation velocities V and velocity dispersions sigma along the principal axes of seven elliptical galaxies less luminous than M_B= -19.5. These kinematics extend beyond the half-light radii for all systems in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hans-Walter Rix , Marcella Carollo , Ken Freeman

Differentially rotating plasma disks, around compact objects, that are imbedded in a ``seed'' magnetic field are shown to develop vertically localized ballooning modes that are driven by the combined radial gradient of the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Bruno Coppi

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We study the azimuthal structure of the stellar disks of 18 face-on spiral galaxies, using K-band photometry to trace the stellar surface mass density. Assuming the disks are co-planar, we characterize their deviation from axisymmetry by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hans-Walter Rix , Dennis Zaritsky

In general relativity, the motion of an extended test body is influenced by its proper rotation, or spin. We present a covariant and physically self-consistent Hamiltonian framework to study this motion, up to quadratic order in the body's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Paul Ramond

Galactic disks lie at the heart of many of the most pressing astrophysical puzzles. There are sophisticated kinetic theories that describe some aspects of galaxy disk dynamics, but extracting quantitative predictions from those theories has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Chris Hamilton , Shaunak Modak , Scott Tremaine

We present an estimate of the third integral of motion for axisymmetric three-dimensional potentials. This estimate is based on a Staeckel approximation and is explicitly written as a function of the potential. We tested this scheme for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 O. Bienaymé , A. C. Robin , B. Famaey

Using local three dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations, the nonlinear outcome of gravitational instability in an irradiated protoplanetary disc is investigated in a parameter space of the surface density $\Sigma$ and the radius…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Shigenobu Hirose , Ji-Ming Shi

We investigate for order and chaos the dynamical system of a spinning test particle of mass $m$ moving in the spacetime background of a Kerr black hole of mass M. This system is approximated in our investigation by the linear in spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Matthaios Katsanikas , Panos A. Patsis , Jonathan Seyrich

Large spectroscopic and astrometric surveys have revealed complex wave-like features in the Milky Way disk, suggesting that its kinematic and chemical structures are shaped by time-dependent perturbations. Recent studies have reported…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Jifei Wang , Zhuohan Li , Chengdong Li , Yuqin Chen , Chengqun Yang , Zixi Guo , Zhou Fan , Hongrui Gu , Maoli Bu

We present kinematic measurements of thin and thick disk components in a sample of nine edge-on galaxies. We extract stellar and ionized gas rotation curves at and above the galaxies' midplanes using the Ca II triplet absorption features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Yoachim , Julianne J. Dalcanton

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Álvaro Villalobos , Amina Helmi