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This paper continues a series reporting different aspects of the behaviour of disc galaxy simulations that support spiral instabilities. The focus in this paper is to demonstrate how linear spiral instabilities saturate and decay, and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 J A Sellwood , R G Carlberg

Using 2D nonlinear simulations, we study the generation and nonlinear evolution of spiral structure in a star-forming multi-component gravitating disk. We confirm in agreement with previous studies the destabilizing role of a cold gaseous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Korchagin , Christian Theis

The turbulent dynamics of nearby and extragalactic gas structures can be studied with the column density power spectrum, which is often described by a broken power-law.In an extragalactic context, the breaks in the power spectra have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Bastian Körtgen , Nickolas Pingel , Nicholas Killerby-Smith

{\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 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…

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Axel Widmark , Jason A. S. Hunt , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Giacomo Monari

We present a subgrid-scale model for the Multi-phase Interstellar medium, Star formation, and Turbulence (MIST) and explore its behaviour in high-resolution large-eddy simulations of isolated disc galaxies. MIST follows the evolution of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Harald Braun , Wolfram Schmidt , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

We examine the idea that dynamical parameters can be estimated by identifying locations in the solar neighbourhood where simulated velocity distributions match the observed local distribution. Here, the dynamical influence of both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dalia Chakrabarty

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

Originally introduced in the fluid mechanics community, dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamics of nonlinear systems. However, existing DMD theory deals primarily with sequential time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jonathan H. Tu , Clarence W. Rowley , Dirk M. Luchtenburg , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We examine the chemical properties of 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of an M33-like disc galaxy which have been shown to be consistent with the morphological characteristics and bulk scaling relations expected of late-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Pilkington , B. K. Gibson , C. B. Brook , F. Calura , G. S. Stinson , R. J. Thacker , L. Michel-Dansac , J. Bailin , H. M. P. Couchman , J. Wadsley , T. R. Quinn , A. Maccio

We present a new method for inferring the gravitational potential of the Galactic disk, using the time-varying structure of a phase-space spiral in the $(z,w)$-plane (where $z$ and $w$ represent vertical position and vertical velocity). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-30 Axel Widmark , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Pablo F. de Salas

We study the dynamical evolution of spiral structure in the stellar disks of isolated galaxies using high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations that treat the evolution of gas, stars, and dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sukanya Chakrabarti

This article is devoted to the study of the dynamical behavior of a collisionless kinetic gas in d=1,2,3 space dimensions which is trapped in a rotationally symmetric potential well. Although at the microscopic level the trajectories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Paola Rioseco , Olivier Sarbach

We present three-dimensional self-gravitating smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of an isothermal gaseous disc interacting with an embedded planet. Discs of varying stability are simulated with planets ranging from 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Fabio Governato

We examine the decay of perturbations in an infinite homogeneous self-gravitating model with a Maxwellian distribution function (DF) when weak collisions are present. In collisionless systems within the stable parameter range, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Ilia G. Shukhman

This paper shows how a self-consistent dynamical model can be obtained by fitting the gravitational potential of the Milky Way to the stellar kinematics and densities from Gaia data. Using the Besancon Galaxy Model we derive a potential and…

We demonstrate the application of the Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) for the diagnostic analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a magnetized plasma in resistive magnetohydrodynamics. The DMD method is an ideal spatio-temporal matrix…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Roy Taylor , J. Nathan Kutz , Kyle Morgan , Brian Nelson

The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Chiba

We use hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the response of geometrically thin, self-gravitating, singular isothermal disks of gas to imposed rigidly rotating spiral potentials. By minimizing reflection-induced feedback from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Chakrabarti , G. Laughlin , F. H. Shu