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We present the numerical study of the formation of spiral structure in the context of violent relaxation. Initial conditions are the out-of-equilibrium disks of self-gravitating particles in rigid rotation. By that mechanism, robust and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Tirawut Worrakitpoonpon

We propose an explanation of features of spiral galaxies: spiral arms and observed flat rotation curves, without the presence of an exotic form of matter. The formalism is based on Boltzmanns transport equation for the collisional matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-29 Bogdan Lobodzinski

We study the dynamics of tidally induced spiral arms in our Galaxy in the context of its encounters with Sagittarius. We built toy models of the interaction between a host and a satellite galaxy using orbital integrations after a tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Antoja , P. Ramos , F. López-Guitart , F. Anders , M. Bernet , C. Laporte

We compare the stellar motion around a spiral arm created in two different scenarios, transient/co-rotating spiral arms and density-wave-like spiral arms. We generate Gaia mock data from snapshots of the simulations following these two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-17 D. Kawata , J. A. S. Hunt , R. J. J. Grand , A. Siebert , S. Pasetto , M. Cropper

We propose a new dynamical picture of galactic stellar and gas spirals, based on hydrodynamic simulations in a `live' stellar disk. We focus especially on spiral structures excited in a isolated galactic disk without a stellar bar. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Keiichi Wada , Junichi Baba , Takayuki R. Saitoh

I review the observational evidence for spiral structure in the accretion discs of cataclysmic variables (CVs). Doppler tomography is ideally suited to resolve and map such co-rotating patterns and allows a straightforward comparison with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Steeghs

High-resolution observations of Class II protoplanetary disks frequently reveal annular structures that may indicate the presence of embedded planets. In this study, we model brightness profiles and geometries for 16 dusty disks in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Masataka Aizawa , Takayuki Muto , Munetake Momose

Recent observations of gaps and non-axisymmetric features in the dust distributions of transition disks have been interpreted as evidence of embedded massive protoplanets. However, comparing the predictions of planet-disk interaction models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Aaron Boley , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Neal Turner

Leading spiral arms are a rare phenomenon. We present here one of the very few convincing candidates of spiral arms opening counter-intuitively in the same direction as the galaxy disk is rotating. This detection in a luminous IR galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-16 Petri Vaisanen , Stuart Ryder , Seppo Mattila , Jari Kotilainen

High-resolution, near-infrared observations have revealed prominent, two-armed spirals in a multitude of systems, such as MWC~758, SAO~206462, and V1247~Ori. Alongside the classical theory of disk-companion interaction, shadow-based driving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Dhruv Muley , León-Alexander Hühn , Haochang Jiang , David Melon Fuksman

Self-gravitating protostellar discs are unstable to fragmentation if the gas can cool on a time scale that is short compared to the orbital period. We use a combination of hydrodynamic simulations and N-body orbit integrations to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage , I. A. Bonnell , M. R. Bate , S. V. Jeffers , S. G. Vine

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

Theoretical models of spiral arms suggest that the spiral arms provoke a vertical bulk motion in disc stars. By analysing the breathing motion, a coherent asymmetric vertical motion around the mid-plane of the Milky Way disc, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Tetsuro Asano , Daisuke Kawata , Michiko S. Fujii , Junichi Baba

At the time of formation, protoplanetary discs likely contain a comparable mass to their host protostars. As a result, gravitational instabilities (GIs) are expected to play a pivotal role in the early phases of disc evolution. However, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. G. Evans , T. W. Hartquist , P. Caselli , A. C. Boley , J. D. Ilee , J. M. C. Rawlings

There are two theories of stellar spiral arms in isolated disc galaxies that model stellar spiral arms with different longevities: quasi-stationary density wave theory, which characterises spirals as rigidly rotating, long-lived patterns…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Junichi Baba , Kana Morokuma-Matsui , Yusuke Miyamoto , Fumi Egusa , Nario Kuno

Star clusters provide unique advantages for investigating Galactic spiral arms, particularly due to their precise ages, positions, and kinematic properties, which are further enhanced by ongoing updates from the astrometric data. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 Xiaochen Liu , Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang

The ``galactic shocks'' \citep{fujimoto68,roberts69} is investigated using a full three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, taking into account self-gravity of the ISM, radiative cooling, and star formation followed by energy feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiichi Wada

Spiral-driven instabilities may drive gas inflow to enhance central star formation in disk galaxies. We investigate this hypothesis using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in a sample of 2779 nearby unbarred star-forming main-sequence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 Si-Yue Yu , Dewang Xu , Luis C. Ho , Jing Wang , Wei-Bo Kao

HD 142527 A is a young and massive Herbig Ae/Be star surrounded by a highly structured disc. The disc shows numerous morphological structures, such as spiral arms, a horseshoe region of dust emission, a set of shadows cast by an inner disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 M. Nowak , S. Rowther , S. Lacour , F. Meru , R. Nealon , D. J. Price

Gas in disk galaxies interacts nonlinearly with an underlying stellar spiral potential to form galactic spiral shocks. While numerical simulations typically show that spiral shocks are unstable to wiggle instability (WI) even in the absence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Woong-Tae Kim , Yonghwi Kim , Jeong-Gyu Kim
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