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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…

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

Recent studies using the Gaia DR3 data have revealed a two-armed phase spiral in the $Z-V_Z$ phase space in the inner disk. In this study, we present new features of the two-armed phase spiral revealed by the Gaia Data and a new mechanism…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Junxian Lin , Zhao-Yu Li , Rui Guo , Jason A. S. Hunt , Teresa Antoja , Chengye Cao

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

Context: The Milky Way's history of recent disturbances is vividly demonstrated by a structure in the vertical phase-space distribution known as the Gaia phase spiral. A one-armed phase spiral has been seen widely across the Milky Way disc,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Simon Alinder , Paul McMillan , Thomas Bensby

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

We aim to study the phase spiral in the Milky Way (MW) with Gaia DR3. We used an edge detection algorithm to find the border of the phase spiral, allowing us to robustly quantify its shape at different positions and for different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-26 T. Antoja , P. Ramos , B. García-Conde , M. Bernet , C. F. P. Laporte , D. Katz

Gaia DR2 has revealed new small-scale and large-scale patterns in the phase-space distribution of stars in the Milky Way. In cylindrical Galactic coordinates $(R,\phi,z)$, ridge-like structures can be seen in the \vphiR{} plane and…

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

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

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 mapped the number density and mean vertical velocity of the Milky Way's stellar disk out to roughly two kiloparsecs from the Sun using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and complementary photo-astrometric distance information from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Axel Widmark , Lawrence M. Widrow , Aneesh Naik

Gaia DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the kinematics of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, and has highlighted the degree of features in the Galactic disc. We confront the data with a range of bar and spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Jason A. S. Hunt , Mathew W. Bub , Jo Bovy , J. Ted Mackereth , Wilma H. Trick , Daisuke Kawata

Decoding the key dynamical processes that shape the Galactic disk structure is crucial for reconstructing the Milky Way's evolution history. The second Gaia data release unveils a novel wave pattern in the $L_Z-\langle V_R\rangle$ space,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Chengye Cao , Zhao-Yu Li , Ralph Schönrich , Teresa Antoja

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

$Gaia$ DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the positions and motions of stars in our Galaxy, and has highlighted the degree of disequilibria in the disc. As we collect data over a wider area of the disc it becomes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Jason A. S. Hunt , Kathryn V. Johnston , Alex R. Pettitt , Emily C. Cunningham , Daisuke Kawata , David W. Hogg

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…

We use numerical simulations to model Gaia DR3 data with the aim of constraining the Milky Way bar and spiral structure parameters. We show that both the morphology and the velocity field in Milky Way-like galactic disc models are strong…

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

Gaia DR2 has revealed breathing motions in the Milky Way, with stars on both sides of the Galactic mid-plane moving coherently towards or away from it. The generating mechanism of these breathing motions is thought to be spiral density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-18 Soumavo Ghosh , Victor P. Debattista , Tigran Khachaturyants
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