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We have applied our method for weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals to the Gaia EDR3 proper motion sample. For stars in distant regions of the Galactic disk, the latitudinal proper motion has a close projection with vertical…

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

The Gaia mission has triggered major developments in the field of Galactic dynamics in recent years, which we discuss in this review. The structure and kinematics of all Galactic components - disc, bar/bulge and halo - are now mapped in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-17 Jason A. S. Hunt , Eugene Vasiliev

Gaia DR2 has delivered full-sky 6-D measurements for millions of stars, and the quest to understand the dynamics of our Galaxy has entered a new phase. Our aim is to reveal and characterize the kinematic sub-structure of the different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Ramos , T. Antoja , F. Figueras

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

We apply the vertical Jeans equation to the Milky Way disk, in order to study non-axisymmetric variations in the thin disk surface density. We divide the disk plane into area cells with a 100 pc grid spacing, and use four separate subsets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 Axel Widmark , Aneesh P. Naik

We review the implications of the Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue for studying the dynamics of Milky Way globular clusters, focusing on two separate topics. The first one is the analysis of the full 6-dimensional phase-space distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Eugene Vasiliev

Star clusters provide unique advantages for investigating Galactic spiral arms, particularly due to their precise ages, positions, and kinematic properties, which are further enhanced by ongoing updates from the astrometric data. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 Xiaochen Liu , Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang

Among the various implications of the spiral arms, it has been observed in the Milky Way disc that the distribution of radial actions from the Gaia Data Release 3 exhibits structures that may be related to the spiral arms. Our goal is to…

The evolution of the Milky Way disk, which contains most of the stars in the Galaxy, is affected by several phenomena. For example, the bar and the spiral arms of the Milky Way induce radial migration of stars and can trap or scatter stars…

Matter distribution models of the Milky Way galaxy are usually stationary, although there are known to be wave-like perturbations in the disc at $\sim10\%$ level of the total density. Modelling of the overall acceleration field by allowing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Rain Kipper , Peeter Tenjes , Elmo Tempel , Roberto de Propris

The second data release from ESA's Gaia mission has revealed many ridge-like structures in the velocity distribution of the Milky Way. We show that these can arise naturally from winding transient spiral structure that is commonly seen in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Jason A. S. Hunt , Jack Hong , Jo Bovy , Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand

We study the dynamics of tidally induced spiral arms in our Galaxy in the context of its encounters with Sagittarius. We built toy models of the interaction between a host and a satellite galaxy using orbital integrations after a tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Antoja , P. Ramos , F. López-Guitart , F. Anders , M. Bernet , C. Laporte

The velocity distribution of stars in the Solar neighbourhood is inhomogeneous and rich with stellar streams and kinematic structures. These may retain important clues of the formation and dynamical history of the Milky Way. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Iryna Kushniruk , Thiebaut Schirmer , Thomas Bensby

To illustrate the potential of GDR2, we provide a first look at the kinematics of the Milky Way disc, within a radius of several kiloparsecs around the Sun. We benefit for the first time from a sample of 6.4 million F-G-K stars with full 6D…

Context: Gaia DR3 time series data may contain spurious signals related to the time-dependent scan angle. Aims: We aim to explain the origin of scan-angle dependent signals and how they can lead to spurious periods, provide statistics to…

We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with a focus on the halo-disk interface in the local volume. To exploit various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Deokkeun An , Timothy C. Beers , Young Sun Lee , Thomas Masseron

Context: In our Paper I, by using statistical deconvolution methods, extended kinematics maps of Gaia-DR2 data have been produced in a range of heliocentric distances that are a factor of two to three larger than those analyzed previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 M. Lopez-Corredoira , F. Garzon , H. -F. Wang , F. Sylos Labini , R. Nagy , Z. Chrobakova , J. Chang , B. Villarroel

The dynamical effects on the stellar motion produced by the Galactic central bar and the spiral arms perturbations are investigated separately and compared. The stars from the Gaia DR3 catalog are selected in the region of observable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 Willian Y. Nacafucasaco , Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Douglas Barros , Jacques Lépine

Recent studies have shown that the passage of a massive satellite through the disk of a spiral galaxy can induce vertical wobbles in the disk and produce features such as in-plane rings and phase-space spirals. Here we analyze a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Haines , Elena D'Onghia , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte , Lars Hernquist

We explore the origin of phase-space substructures revealed by the second Gaia data release in the disc of the Milky Way, such as the ridges in the $V_{\phi}$-$r$ plane, the undulations in the $V_{\phi}$-$r$-$V_r$ space and the streams in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 F. Fragkoudi , D. Katz , W. Trick , S. D. M. White , P. Di Matteo , M. C. Sormani , S. Khoperskov , M. Haywood , A. Hallé , A. Gómez