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Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon

The Milky Way spiral arms are well established from star counts as well as from the locus of molecular clouds and other young objects, however, they have only recently started to be observed from a kinematics point of view. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-15 Luis Martinez-Medina , Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Antonio Peimbert

ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks in dust continuum emission reveal a variety of annular structures. Attributing the existence of such features to embedded planets is a popular scenario, supported by studies using hydrodynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Alexandros Ziampras , Richard P. Nelson , Roman R. Rafikov

Gap-opening planets can generate dust-trapping vortices that may explain some of the latest discoveries of high-contrast crescent-shaped dust asymmetries in transition discs. While planet-induced vortices were previously thought to have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Michael Hammer , Paola Pinilla , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Min-Kai Lin

In this paper, we look to analyse the spiral features of grand-design, multiarmed, and flocculent spiral galaxies using deep optical imaging from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. We explore the resulting distributions of various characteristics…

We study the gravitational instability and fragmentation of primordial protostellar discs by using high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. We follow the formation and evolution of spiral arms in protostellar discs, examine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Shigeki Inoue , Naoki Yoshida

We hypothesise that dust rings in protoplanetary discs formed by an embedded planet should have properties that reflect the planet's mass. We use 2D hydrodynamical simulations of planet-disc interactions to investigate this, focusing on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Amena Faruqi , Jessica Speedie , Ralph E. Pudritz , Farzana Meru

We test whether the spiral patterns apparent in many large disk galaxies should be thought of as dynamical features that are stationary in a co-rotating frame for > t_{dyn}, as implied by the density wave approach for explaining spiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kelly Foyle , Hans-Walter Rix , Clare Dobbs , Adam Leroy , Fabian Walter

We propose a new theory to explain the formation of spiral arms and of all types of outer rings in barred galaxies. We have extended and applied the technique used in celestial mechanics to compute transfer orbits. Thus, our theory is based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-31 M. Romero-Gomez , E. Athanassoula , J. J. Masdemont , C. Garcia-Gomez

It has been suggested that the gaps and cavities recently discovered in transitional disks are opened by planets. To explore this scenario, we combine two-dimensional two fluid (gas + particle) hydrodynamical calculations with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ruobing Dong , Zhaohuan Zhu , Barbara Whitney

Spiral arms, rings and large scale asymmetries are structures observed in high resolution observations of protoplanetary disks, and it appears that some of the disks showing spiral arms in scattered light also show asymmetries in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 P. Cazzoletti , E. F. van Dishoeck , P. Pinilla , M. Tazzari , S. Facchini , N. van der Marel , M. Benisty , A. Garufi , L. Pérez

Most stars form in multiple star systems. For a better understanding of their formation processes, it is important to resolve the individual protostellar components and the surrounding envelope and disk material at the earliest possible…

Theoretical studies on the response of interstellar gas to a gravitational potential disc with a quasi-stationary spiral arm pattern suggest that the gas experiences a sudden compression due to standing shock waves at spiral arms. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Fumi Egusa , Erin Mentuch Cooper , Jin Koda , Junichi Baba

Many protoplanetary disks exhibit annular gaps in dust emission, which may be produced by planets. Simulations of planet-disk interaction aimed at interpreting these observations often treat the disk thermodynamics in an overly simplified…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

Super-Earths exist around subsolar-metallicity host stars with a frequency comparable to that around solar-metallicity stars, suggesting efficient assembly of dust grains even in metal-deficient environments. In this study, we propose a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

We investigate how the detectability of signatures of self-gravity in a protoplanetary disc depends on its temporal evolution. We run a one-dimensional model for secular timescales to follow the disc mass as a function of time. We then…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Cassandra Hall , Ruobing Dong , Ken Rice , Tim J. Harries , Joan Najita , Richard Alexander , Sean Brittain

We investigate the use of spiral arm pitch angles as a probe of disk galaxy mass profiles. We confirm our previous result that spiral arm pitch angles (P) are well-correlated with the rate of shear (S) in disk galaxy rotation curves, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc S. Seigar , James S. Bullock , Aaron J. Barth , Luis C. Ho

Isotropic and anisotropic wavelet transforms are used to decompose the images of the spiral galaxy M83 in various tracers to quantify structures in a range of scales from 0.2 to 10 kpc. We used radio polarization observations at {\lambda}6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 P. Frick , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Shukurov , M. Ehle , A. Lundgren

Context. The SAO 206462 (HD 135344B) disk is one of the few known transitional disks showing asymmetric features in scattered light and thermal emission. Near-infrared scattered-light images revealed two bright outer spiral arms and an…

The origin and maintenance of spiral structure in galaxies, the correlation between different types of spiral structure and several proposed mechanisms for their generation, and the evolution of spiral arms of galaxies with time are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-29 V. P. Reshetnikov , A. A. Marchuk , I. V. Chugunov , P. A. Usachev , A. V. Mosenkov