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This study investigates the structural parameters of the thin-disk population by analyzing the spatial distribution of evolved stars in the solar neighbourhood. From the $\it Gaia$ Data Release 3 database, about 39.1 million stars within 1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-09 S. Iyisan , S. Bilir , O. Onal Tas , O. Plevne

We explore the morphological and dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters in simulations using scalar and vector-valued Minkowski valuations and the concept of fundamental plane relations. In this context, three questions are of fundamental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 C. Beisbart , R. Valdarnini , T. Buchert

We analyze the fractal dimension of open clusters using 3D spatial data from Gaia DR3 for 93 open clusters from Pang et al. (2024) and 127 open clusters from Hunt & Reffert (2024) within 500 pc. The box-counting method is adopted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Chang Qin , Xiaoying Pang , Mario Pasquato , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Antonella Vallenari

The gas-stars instability criterion for infinitesimally thin disc was applied to the galaxy NGC 628. Instead of using the azimuthally averaged profiles of data the maps of the gas surface densities (THINGS, HERACLES), of the velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-24 A. A. Marchuk

Since molecules are ubiquitous in space, the study of the 'Molecular Universe' could unfold the mystery of the existing Interstellar medium. Star formation is linked to the chemical evolution processes. Thus, an analysis of the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Bratati Bhat

The interstellar medium contains filamentary structure over a wide range of scales. Understanding the role of this structure, both as a conduit of gas across the scales and a diagnostic tool of local physics, is a major focus of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-24 A. Hacar , S Clark , F. Heitsch , J. Kainulainen , G. Panopoulou , D. Seifried , R. Smith

Linear [Q/H]-[O/H] relations, Q = Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ni, are inferred from a sample (N=67) of recently studied FGK-type dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood including different populations. Regression line slope and intercept…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-24 R. Caimmi

The strong time-dependence of the dynamics of galactic bars yields a complex and rapidly evolving distribution of dense gas and star forming regions. Although bars mainly host regions void of any star formation activity, their extremities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Renaud , F. Bournaud , E. Emsellem , O. Agertz , E. Athanassoula , F. Combes , B. Elmegreen , K. Kraljic , F. Motte , R. Teyssier

Context. Simulating stellar dynamics in a molecular cloud environment is numerically challenging due to the strong coupling between young stars and their surrounding gas, and the large range of length and time scales. Aims. This paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 Yann Bernard , Estelle Moraux , Daniel J. Price , Frédérique Motte , Fabien Louvet , Isabelle Joncour

Fractal dimension curves of urban growth can be modeled with sigmoid functions, including logistic function and quadratic logistic function. Different types of logistic functions indicate different spatial dynamics. The fractal dimension…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Xiaoming Man , Yanguang Chen

We look at chaotic systems evolving in fractal phase space. The entropy change in time due to the fractal geometry is assimilated to the information growth through the scale refinement. Due to the incompleteness, at any scale, of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Q. A. Wang , A. Le Mehaute

The distributions of a galaxy's gas and stars in chemical space encodes a tremendous amount of information about that galaxy's physical properties and assembly history. However, present methods for extracting information from chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Mark R. Krumholz , Yuan-Sen Ting

The effects of the Galactic bar on the velocity distribution of old disc stars in the Solar neighbourhood are investigated using high-resolution 2D test particle simulations. A detailed orbital analysis reveals that the structure of the U-V…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Fux

Rotation is of key importance for the evolution of hot massive stars, however, the rotational velocities of these stars are difficult to determine. Based on our own data for 31 Galactic O stars and incorporating similar data for 86 OB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Markova , J. Puls , S. Simón-Díaz , A. Herrero , H. Markov , N. Langer

There is a general agreement that galaxy structures exhibit fractal properties, at least up to some small scale. However the presence of an eventual crossover towards homogenization, as well as the exact value of the fractal dimension, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francesco Sylos Labini

We have performed a high mass and force resolution simulation of an idealized galaxy forming from dissipational collapse of gas embedded in a spherical dark matter halo. The simulation includes star formation and effects of stellar…

We have investigated the accuracy and reliability of six methods used to determine the length of stellar bars in galaxies or N-body simulations. All these methods use ellipse fitting and Fourier decomposition of the surface brightness. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Leo Michel-Dansac , Herve Wozniak

The spatial distributions of cities fall into two groups: one is the simple distribution with characteristic scale (e.g. exponential distribution), and the other is the complex distribution without characteristic scale (e.g. power-law…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Yanguang Chen , Jian Feng

We take into account redshift-space distortion measurements to investigate the growth of cosmological large-scale structures within the framework of modified symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity. After comparing the predictions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Shambel Sahlu , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Amare Abebe

The Slowly Pulsating B-type (SPB) stars are the upper main-sequence stars on the HR diagram. Their oscillations are high-order, low-degree g-mode and can be used to probe the structure of the radiative zone where is near the outer boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Tao Wu , Yan Li , Zhen-min Deng