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We use high-resolution HI data from the WHISP survey to study the HI and angular momentum properties of a sample of 114 late-type galaxies. We explore the specific baryonic angular momentum -- baryonic mass ($j_b - M_b$) relation, and find…

We investigate the role of stellar mass in shaping the intrinsic thickness of galaxy discs by determining the probability distribution of apparent axis ratios (b/a) for two different samples that probe the faint end of the galaxy luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Sanchez-Janssen , J. Mendez-Abreu , J. A. L. Aguerri

The neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) content of spiral galaxies has been observed to vary with environment, with more HI-deficient spirals residing in high density environments. This can be attributed to environmental effects such as ram…

Rotation curves constrain a galaxy's underlying mass density profile, under the assumption that the observed rotation produces a centripetal force that exactly balances the inward force of gravity. However, most rotation curves are measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. J. Dalcanton , A. Stilp

We investigate the possibility that the observed rotation of galaxies can be accounted for by invoking a massive baryonic disc with no need for non-baryonic dark matter or a massive halo. There are 5 primary reasons for suggesting this: 1.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-23 Jonathan Davies

Stellar-feedback driven outflows are predicted to play a fundamental role in the baryon cycle of low-mass galaxies. However, observational constraints of winds in nearby dwarf galaxies are limited as outflows are transient, intrinsically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Kristen B. W. McQuinn , Liese van Zee , Evan D. Skillman

We use the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the galaxy mass-morphology relation, as measured by the rotational support of the stellar component of simulated galaxies. For isolated galaxies with stellar mass in the range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 Bruno M. Celiz , Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Volker Springel

Context. Understanding the dwarf galaxy population in low density environments is crucial for testing the LCDM cosmological model. The increase in diversity towards low mass galaxies is seen as an increase in the scatter of scaling…

This study focuses on stars with masses above the Kraft break in the \textit{Kepler} field. Their rotational angular momenta are essentially the same as those at the zero-age main sequence. The angular momentum dissipation experienced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu-Fu Shen , Yan Xu , Yi-Bo Wang , Xiu-Lin Huang , Xing-Xing Hu , Qi Yuan

The rotation dynamics of spiral galaxies is modeled using a sum of two mass distributions: a spherical bulge and a thin disk. The density functions representing these mass distributions are calculated from the total angular momentum of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-09 Louis Marmet

Gaia EDR3 has provided proper motions of Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies with an unprecedented accuracy, which allows us to investigate their orbital properties. We found that the total energy and angular momentum of MW dwarf galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-03 Yang Y. , Hammer F. , Li H. , Pawlowski M. S. , Wang J. L. , Babusiaux C. , Mamon G. A. , Bonifacio P. , Jiao Y. , Wang H.

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

White dwarfs rotate. The angular momentum in single white dwarfs must originate early in the life of the star, but also must be modified (and perhaps severely modified) during the many stages of evolution between birth as a main--sequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven D. Kawaler

We study the z=0 gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum content of isolated galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning $M_{\star}=10^{6-11}M_{\odot}$. Gas becomes increasingly…

Galactic outflows are believed to play an important role in regulating star formation in galaxies, but estimates of the outflowing mass and momentum have historically been based on uncertain assumptions. Here, we measure the mass, momentum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 John Chisholm , Christy A. Tremonti , Claus Leitherer , Yanmei Chen

Using high-resolution N-body simulations we study the stellar properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies resulting from the tidally induced morphological transformation of disky dwarfs on a cosmologically motivated eccentric orbit around the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Lucio Mayer , Simone Callegari

Gravitational potential fluctuations driven by bursty star formation can kinematically 'heat up' dark matter at the centres of dwarf galaxies. A key prediction of such models is that, at a fixed dark matter halo mass, dwarfs with a higher…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 J. I. Read , M. G. Walker , P. Steger

In Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) framework, the dynamical mass of a galaxy is fully determined by its baryonic matter distribution. We fit the distribution of cold and hot gas halos, focusing on hot gas, around SDSS central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Li Ma , Ziwen Zhang , Huiyuan Wang , Xufen Wu

We study the orbits in the MOND theory within a dwarf galaxy of mass Md at a distance of ~100kpc from a neighboring galaxy of mass Mg, such as ours. It is assumed that a second mass m<<Md is gravitationally bound to Md by a previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Muller , Reuven Opher

We study the effects of radial flows on Galactic chemical evolution. A simple analytic scheme is developed prescribing the coupling of infall from the intergalactic medium and radial flows within the disc based on angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-21 Thomas Bilitewski , Ralph Schönrich