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A simple model is presented of the formation of the spiral the (z,v_z) phase plane of solar-neighbourhood stars that was recently discovered in Gaia data. The key is that the frequency Omega_z at which stars oscillate vertically depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 James Binney , Ralph Schoenrich

The discovery of the phase space spirals in the Solar neighborhood in Gaia Data Release 2 has prompted various attempts to understand their origin. A source of bending waves, which has been neglected as a cause of the phase spiral, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Shuyu Wang , Anthony G. A. Brown , Victor P. Debattista , Tigran Khachaturyants

Using a single N-body simulation ($N=0.14\times 10^9$) we explore the formation, evolution and spatial variation of the phase-space spirals similar to those recently discovered by Antoja et al. in the Milky Way disk, with Gaia DR2. For the…

The phase spiral is a perturbation to the vertical phase-space distribution of stars in the Milky Way disk. We study the phase spiral's properties and how they vary with spatial position, in order to constrain its origin and evolution, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-29 Axel Widmark , Kiyan Tavangar , Josh Kalish , Kathryn V. Johnston , Jason A. S. Hunt

In 2018, the ESA \Gaia\ satellite discovered a remarkable spiral pattern ("phase spiral") in the $z-V_z$ phase plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where $z$ and $V_z$ are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Thor Tepper-Garcia

We explore the interplay between in-plane and vertical dynamics in stellar discs within the framework of the shearing box approximation. Julian and Toomre used the shearing sheet to show that leading density waves are amplified as they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Lawrence M. Widrow

Disc stars from the Gaia DR3 RVS catalogue are selected to explore the phase spiral as a function of position in the Galaxy. The data reveal a two-armed phase spiral pattern in the local $z-v_z$ plane inside the solar radius, which appears…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chengdong Li , Arnaud Siebert , Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Simon Rozier

We use the second data releases of the ESA Gaia astrometric survey and the high-resolution GALAH spectroscopic survey to analyse the structure of our Galaxy's disc components. With GALAH, we separate the alpha-rich and alpha-poor discs…

We have investigated the distributions of stellar azimuthal and radial velocity components $V_{\Phi}$ and $V_{R}$ in the vertical position-velocity plane $Z$-$V_{Z}$ across the Galactic disc of $6.34 \lesssim R \lesssim 12.34$\,kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 C. Wang , Y. Huang , H. -B. Yuan , M. -S. Xiang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -F. Wang , Y. -Q. Wu , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian , Y. Yang , M. Zhang , X. -W. Liu

We compare the distribution in position and velocity of nearby stars from the Gaia DR2 radial velocity sample with predictions of current theories for spirals in disc galaxies. Although the rich substructure in velocity space contains the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 J. A. Sellwood , Wilma Trick , Ray Carlberg , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

We develop a novel method to simultaneously determine the vertical potential, force and stellar $z-v_z$ phase space distribution function (DF) in our local patch of the Galaxy. We assume that the Solar Neighborhood can be treated as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Haochuan Li , Lawrence M. Widrow

{\it Gaia} Data Release 2 (DR2) revealed that the Milky Way contains significant indications of departures from equilibrium in the form of asymmetric features in the phase space density of stars in the Solar neighborhood. One such feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-28 Jason A. S. Hunt , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Kathryn V. Johnston , Elise Darragh-Ford

The Gaia satellite revealed a remarkable spiral pattern ('phase spiral', PS) in the z-Vz phase-plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where z and Vz are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the Galactic plane. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Timothy R. Bedding , Christoph Federrath , Oscar Agertz

The characteristics of Gaia catalogues, such as trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of stars, are discussed. Radial velocities of stars are also important for studying spatial motions. The most important results of the kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova

We study the vertical perturbations in the galactic disc of the Milky Way-size high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation named GARROTXA. We detect phase spirals in the vertical projection $Z- V_{Z}$ of disc's stellar particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-24 Begoña García-Conde , Santi Roca-Fàbrega , Teresa Antoja , Pau Ramos , Octavio Valenzuela

Context: With the data releases from the astrometric space mission Gaia, the exploration of the structure of the Milky Way has developed in unprecedented detail and unveiled many previously unknown structures in the Galactic disc and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 S. Alinder , P. J. McMillan , T. Bensby

The second data release of ESA's $Gaia$ mission revealed numerous signatures of disequilibrium in the Milky Way's disc. These signatures are seen in the planar kinematics of stars, which manifest as ridges and ripples in $R-v_{\phi}$, and…

Using the Gaia data release 2 (DR2), we analyzed the distribution of stars in the close vicinity of the Sun in the full 3D position-velocity space. We have found no evidence of incomplete phase mixing in the vertical direction of the disk,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-21 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Douglas A. Barros , Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Jacques R. D. Lépine

The Gaia Space Satellite has transformed the field of Galactic Dynamics by collecting 6D phase space information for hundreds of millions of stars. In 2018, it enabled the discovery of the Gaia Phase Spiral (Antoja et al., 2018), a clear…

Data from the Gaia mission shows prominent phase-space spirals that are the signatures of disequilibrium in the Milky Way (MW) disc. In this work, we present a novel perspective on the phase-space spiral in angular momentum (AM) space.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-09 Rashid Yaaqib , Aneesh P. Naik , Jorge Peñarrubia , Michael S. Petersen
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