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We use a sample of 559 disc galaxies extracted from the eXtended GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (xGASS) to study the connection between baryonic angular momentum, mass and atomic gas fraction in the local Universe. Baryonic angular momenta are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Jennifer A. Hardwick , Luca Cortese , Danail Obreschkow , Barbara Catinella

We investigate the gravitational collapse of rapidly rotating relativistic supermassive stars by means of a 3+1 hydrodynamical simulations in conformally flat spacetime of general relativity. We study the evolution of differentially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Motoyuki Saijo

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 compare both the Milky Way and M31 to local external disk galaxies within the same mass range, using their relative locations in the planes formed by Vflat vs. MK (the Tully-Fisher relation), j_disk (specific angular momentum) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-20 M. Puech , F. Hammer , L. Chemin , H. Flores , M. Lehnert

We investigate the angular momentum evolution of four disk galaxies residing in Milky Way-sized halos formed in cosmological zoom-in simulations with various sub-grid physics and merging histories. We decompose these galaxies kinematically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Aleksandra Sokolowska , Pedro R. Capelo , S. Michael Fall , Lucio Mayer , Sijing Shen , Silvia Bonoli

I review recent progresses in the dynamics and the evolution of self-gravitating accretion discs. Accretion discs are a fundamental component of several astrophysical systems on very diverse scales, and can be found around supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lodato

In this letter we study the mean sizes of Halpha clumps in turbulent disk galaxies relative to kinematics, gas fractions, and Toomre Q. We use 100~pc resolution HST images, IFU kinematics, and gas fractions of a sample of rare, nearby…

We present a sample of 86,111 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the catalogue of the MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for SDSS DR7 to investigate the evolution of mass-metallicity (MZ) relation. We find that: under the $\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Yu-Zhong Wu , Wei Zhang , Yong-Heng Zhao

We conduct a systematic study of the angular momentum problem in numerical simulations of disk galaxy formation. We investigate the role of numerical resolution using a semi-cosmological setup which combines an efficient use of the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Franziska Piontek , Matthias Steinmetz

We investigate the susceptibility of gaseous, magnetized galactic disks to formation of self-gravitating condensations using two-dimensional, local models. We focus on two issues: (1) determining the threshold condition for gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We have studied numerically the evolution of protostellar disks around intermediate and upper mass T Tauri stars (0.25 M_sun < M_st < 3.0 M_sun) that have formed self-consistently from the collapse of molecular cloud cores. In the T Tauri…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Major mergers or/and the repeated minor mergers lead to dynamical heating of disks of galaxies. We analyze the available data on the velocity dispersion of stellar disks of S-S0 galaxies, including the new observational data obtained at 6m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 A. Zasov , A. Saburova , I. Katkov

We develop a model for the distribution of the ISM and star formation in galaxies based on recent studies that indicate that galactic disks stabilise to a constant stability parameter, which we combine with prescriptions of how the phases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-21 Zheng Zheng , Gerhardt Meurer , Timothy Heckman , David Thilker , Martin Zwaan

To date, most simulations of the chemistry in protoplanetary discs have used 1+1D or 2D axisymmetric $\alpha$-disc models to determine chemical compositions within young systems. This assumption is inappropriate for non-axisymmetric,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 M. G. Evans , J. D. Ilee , A. C. Boley , P. Caselli , R. H. Durisen , T. W. Hartquist , J. M. C. Rawlings

In this empirical work, we aim to quantify the systematic uncertainties in stellar mass $(M_\star)$ estimates made from spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting through stellar population synthesis (SPS), for galaxies in the local…

The stellar metallicity gradients of disc galaxies provide information on the disc assembly, star formation processes and chemical evolution. They also might store information on dynamical processes which could affect the distribution of…

Gravitational instabilities play a primary role in shaping the clumpy structure and powering the star formation activity of gas-rich high-redshift galaxies. Here we analyse the stability of such systems, focusing on the size and mass ranges…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Alessandro B. Romeo , Oscar Agertz

We study gravitational instabilities in disks, with special attention to the most massive clumps that form because they are expected to be the progenitors of globular-type clusters. The maximum unstable mass is set by rotation and depends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-11 Andres Escala , Richard B. Larson

We use numerical simulations to investigate the orientation of the angular momentum axis of disk galaxies relative to their surrounding large scale structure. We find that this is closely related to the spatial configuration at turnaround…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Matthias Steinmetz

We study global star formation thresholds in the outer parts of galaxies by investigating the stability of disk galaxies embedded in dark halos. The disks are self-gravitating, contain metals and dust, and are exposed to UV radiation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joop Schaye