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We examine whether various characteristics of planet-driven spiral arms can be used to constrain the masses of unseen planets and their positions within their disks. By carrying out two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations varying planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

We propose a new, more realistic, description of the perturbed gravitational potential of spiral galaxies, with spiral arms having Gaussian-shaped groove profiles. We investigate the stable stellar orbits in galactic disks, using the new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 T. C. Junqueira , J. R. D. Lépine , C. A. S. Braga , D. A. Barros

Recent numerical simulations have shown long-lived axisymmetric sub- and super-Keplerian flows in protoplanetary disks. These zonal flows are found in local as well as global simulations of disks unstable to the magnetorotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Karsten Dittrich , Hubert Klahr , Anders Johansen

Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Keiichi Wada , C. A. Norman

Gaia data have revealed vertically asymmetric phase-space structures in the Milky Way (MW) disc, such as phase spirals, indicating vertical oscillations. These oscillations exhibit two distinct modes: the bending mode and the breathing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Tetsuro Asano , Michiko S. Fujii , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

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

The results of numerical simulations of a gaseous disk in the potential of a stellar spiral density wave are presented. The conditions under which straightened spiral arm segments (rows) form in the gas component are studied. These features…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov , M. A. Eremin , M. A. Butenko

Growth rates for gravitational instabilities in a thick disk of gas and stars are determined for a turbulent gas that dissipates on the local crossing time. The scale heights are derived from vertical equilibrium. The accuracy of the usual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Catastrophic collisions between proto-satellites have been proposed as a possible origin of Saturn's rings. This argument relies on the concept of the equivalent circular orbit. Here, we re-examine the post-impact dynamical evolution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ryuki Hyodo , Naoya Torii

We find that, under certain conditions, protoplanetary disks may spontaneously generate multiple, concentric gas rings without an embedded planet through an eccentric cooling instability. Using both linear theory and non-linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jiaru Li , Adam M. Dempsey , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

Most fully developed galaxies have a vivid spiral structure, but the formation and evolution of the spiral structure are still an enigma in astrophysics. In this paper, according to the standard Newtonian gravitational theory and some…

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-16 Ying-Qiu Gu

Transitional disks are protoplanetary disks with large and deep central holes in the gas, possibly carved by young planets. Dong, R., & Dawson, R. 2016, ApJ, 825, 7 simulated systems with multiple giant planets that were capable of carving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Rory Bowens , Andrew Shannon , Rebekah Dawson , Jiayin Dong

Spiral structure (both flocculent and Grand Design types) is very rarely observed in dwarf galaxies because the formation of spiral arms requires special conditions. In this work we analyze the sample of about 40 dS-galaxies found by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Anatoly V. Zasov , Alexander V. Khoperskov , Natalia A. Zaitseva , Sergey S. Khrapov

We explore the initial conditions for fragments in the extended regions ($r\gtrsim 50$ AU) of gravitationally unstable disks. We combine analytic estimates for the fragmentation of spiral arms with 3D SPH simulations to show that initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Aaron C. Boley , Tristen Hayfield , Lucio Mayer , Richard H. Durisen

High resolution N-body simulations using different codes and initial condition techniques reveal two different behaviours for the rotation frequency of transient spiral arms like structures. Whereas unbarred disks present spiral arms nearly…

Recent observations have unveiled a population of pulsars with spin periods of a few minutes to hours that lie beyond the traditional ``death line.'' If they originate from neutron stars (NSs), the existence of such ultra-long period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Savannah Cary , Wenbin Lu , Calvin Leung , Tin Long Sunny Wong

The dynamics of solid bodies in protoplanetary disks are subject to the properties of any underlying gas turbulence. Turbulence driven by disk self-gravity shows features distinct from those driven by the magnetorotational instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ji-Ming Shi , Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Eugene Chiang

I use N-body simulations with two mass species of particles to demonstrate that disk galaxy simulations are subject to collisional relaxation at a higher rate than is widely assumed. Relaxation affects the vertical thickness of the disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. A. Sellwood

Numerous protoplanetary disks exhibit shadows in scattered light observations. These shadows are typically cast by misaligned inner disks and are associated with observable structures in the outer disk such as bright arcs and spirals.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alexandros Ziampras , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Tilman Birnstiel , Myriam Benisty , Richard P. Nelson

The spiral waves detected in the protostellar disc surrounding Elias 2-27 have been suggested as evidence of the disc being gravitationally unstable. However, previous work has shown that a massive, stable disc undergoing an encounter with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Duncan H. Forgan , John D. Ilee , Farzana Meru