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We analyze the kinematics of Andromeda's disk as a function of stellar age by using photometry from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey and spectroscopy from the Spectroscopic and Photometric Landscape of Andromeda's…

Recent observations of our neighbouring galaxy M31 have revealed that its disk was shaped by widespread events. The evidence for this includes the high dispersion ($V/\sigma$ $\le$ 3) of stars older than 2 Gyr, and a global star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Hammer , Y. B. Yang , J. L. Wang , R. Ibata , H. Flores , M. Puech

The stellar kinematics of galactic disks are key to constraining disk formation and evolution processes. In this paper, for the first time, we measure the stellar age-velocity dispersion correlation in the inner 20 kpc (3.5 disk scale…

We present the first asymmetric drift (AD) measurements for unresolved stellar populations of different characteristic ages above and below 1.5 Gyr. These measurements sample the age-velocity relation (AVR) in galaxy disks. In this first…

The Andromeda galaxy was observed by the Guoshoujing Telescope (GSJT, formly named the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope -- LAMOST) during the 2009 commissioning phase. Due to the absence of standard stars for flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hu Zou , Yanbin Yang , Tianmeng Zhang , Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Ali Luo , Haotong Zhang , Zhongrui Bai , Yongheng Zhao

The nearest giant spiral, M31, exhibits a kinematically hot stellar disc, a global star formation episode ~2-4 Gyr ago, and conspicuous substructures in its stellar halo that are suggestive of a recent accretion event. Recent chemodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 C. Tsakonas , M. Arnaboldi , S. Bhattacharya , F. Hammer , Y. Yang , O. Gerhard , R. F. G. Wyse , D. Hatzidimitriou

We measure the age-velocity relationship from the lag between ionized gas and stellar tangential speeds in ~500 nearby disk galaxies from MaNGA in SDSS-IV. Selected galaxies are kinematically axisymmetric. Velocity lags are asymmetric…

We present an analysis of the proper motion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), based on the Early Third Data Release of the Gaia mission. We use the Gaia photometry to select young blue main sequence stars, and apply several quality cuts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-06 J. -B. Salomon , R. Ibata , C. Reylé , B. Famaey , N. I. Libeskind , A. W. McConnachie , Y. Hoffman

We present new mass estimates for Andromeda (M31) using the orbital angular momenta of four satellite galaxies (M33, NGC 185, NGC 147, IC 10) derived from existing proper motions, distances, and line-of-sight velocities. We infer two masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-17 Ekta Patel , Kaisey S. Mandel

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the most nearby giant spiral galaxy, an opportunity to study with high resolution dynamical phenomena occurring in nuclear disks and bulges, able to explain star formation quenching, and galaxy evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Lucie Cros , Françoise Combes , Anne-Laure Melchior , Thomas Martin

We analyze the merger and assembly histories of Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31)-like galaxies to quantify how, and how often, disk galaxies of this mass can survive recent major mergers (stellar mass ratio $\ge$ 1:4). For this, we use…

We conduct a comparative analysis of galaxy kinematics using IllustrisTNG simulations and integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) observations. We identify 2,342 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the TNG100 simulation and 236 ETGs from the TNG50…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Wenyu Zhong , Min Du , Shengdong Lu , Yunpeng Jin , Kai Zhu

We present a study of kinematic asymmetries from the integral field spectroscopic surveys MAGPI and SAMI. By comparing the asymmetries in the ionsied gas and stars, we aim to disentangle the physical processes that contribute to kinematic…

In this work an ensemble of simulated Local Group analogues is used to constrain the properties of the mass assembly history of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) galaxies. These objects have been obtained using the constrained…

We probe the feasibility of describing the structure of a multi-component axisymmetric galaxy with a dynamical model based on the Jeans equations while taking into account a third integral of motion. We demonstrate that using the third…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Rain Kipper , Peeter Tenjes , Olga Tihhonova , Antti Tamm , Elmo Tempel

We study the relation between stellar ages and vertical velocity dispersion (the age-velocity relation, or AVR) in a sample of seven simulated disc galaxies. In our simulations, the shape of the AVR for stars younger than 9 Gyr depends…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-05 Marie Martig , Ivan Minchev , Chris Flynn

The interaction between an accreting satellite and the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been studied analytically and numerically, using a high-resolution N-body simulation with $4\times10^7$ particles. For the first time, we show the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masao Mori , R. Michael Rich

We perform analysis of the three-dimensional kinematics of Milky Way disk stars in mono-age populations. We focus on stars between Galactocentric distances of $R=6$ and 14 \,kpc, selected from the combined LAMOST DR4 red clump giant stars…

A significant fraction of nearby late-type galaxies are lopsided. We study the asymmetry of the stellar component in a sample of well-resolved disky galaxies selected from the last snapshot of the Illustris TNG100 simulation based on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Ewa L. Lokas

Within disk galaxies, the velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, of stars increases with age, $\tau$, as measured in the Milky Way (MW) and nearby galaxies. This relation provides a key window into galactic formation history, tracing both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-16 Fiona McCluskey , Andrew Wetzel , Sarah Loebman , Jorge Moreno
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