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Previous observations have suggested non-random distribution of spin directions of galaxies at scales far larger than the size of a supercluster. Here I use $\sim1.7\cdot10^5$ spiral galaxies from SDSS and $3.3\cdot10^4$ spiral galaxies…

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We investigate the properties and evolution of star particles in two simulations of isolated spiral galaxies, and two galaxies from cosmological simulations. Unlike previous numerical work, where typically each star particle represents one…

We determine the arrangement of spins in the ground state of the XY model with quenched, random fields, on a fully connected graph. Two types of disordered fields are considered, namely randomly oriented magnetic fields, and randomly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-01 Rajiv G Pereira , Ananya Janardhanan , Mustansir Barma

The distribution of spin direction of ~6.4*10^4 spiral galaxies with spectra was examined. The analysis shows a statistically significant cosmological-scale asymmetry between galaxies with opposite spin direction. The data also reveals that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 Lior Shamir

Advances in asteroseismology of solar-like stars, now provide a unique method to estimate the stellar inclination $i_{\star}$. This enables to evaluate the spin-orbit angle of transiting planetary systems, in a complementary fashion to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Shoya Kamiaka , Othman Benomar , Yasushi Suto

Recent observations using several different telescopes and sky surveys showed patterns of asymmetry in the distribution of galaxies by their spin directions as observed from Earth. These studies were done with data imaged from the Northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lior Shamir

We homogeneously measured the elliptical shapes of 163 globular clusters (GCs) using the on-sky distribution of their cluster members and the third data release of the ESA mission Gaia (DR3). The astrometry enables the differentiation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-02 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson

A survey of 329 nearby galaxies (redshift z < 0.045) has been conducted to study the distribution of mass and light within spiral galaxies over a range of environments. The 18 observed clusters and groups span a range of richness, density,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicole P. Vogt , Martha P. Haynes , Terry Herter , Riccardo Giovanelli

Here we present an ensemble study of spin-orbit alignment in 51 close double star systems. We determine spin-orbit angles, obliquities, in 39 of these systems making use of recently improved apsidal motion rate measurements and apsidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Marcus L. Marcussen , Simon H. Albrecht

One of the largest uncertainties in stellar structure and evolution theory is the transport of angular momentum in the stellar interiors. Asteroseismology offers a powerful tool for measuring the internal rotation frequencies of pulsating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 May G. Pedersen

We present an analysis of the spatial orientations of galaxies in the 247 optically selected rich Abell clusters, having in the considered area at least 100 members. We investigated the relation between angles giving information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Paulina Piwowarska , Elena Panko , Piotr Flin

Spin vectors of 60 galaxies in the ``Ursa Major Filament'' are obtained from CCD images and spectroscopic determinations of the directions of rotation. These data are used to remove the four-fold degeneracy introduced by the project ed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Cheongho Han

There has been growing evidence that the rich star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds contain significant fractions of rapidly rotating stars. In this work, we aim to constrain these fractions by studying the colour-magnitude diagrams of…

We have reanalyzed a data set of 99 low redshift ($ z < 0.1 $) Abell clusters and determined their shapes. For this, three different measures are used. We use Monte-Carlo simulations to investigate the errors in the methods. The corrected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. A. M. de Theije , P. Katgert , E. van Kampen

Although the 55 Cnc system contains multiple, closely packed planets that are presumably in a coplanar configuration, we use numerical simulations to demonstrate that they are likely to be highly inclined to their parent star's spin axis.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nathan A. Kaib , Sean N. Raymond , Martin J. Duncan

Several recent observations using large datasets of galaxies showed non-random distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies, even when the galaxies are too far from each other to have gravitational interaction. Here, a dataset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lior Shamir

We derived the three-dimensional velocities of individual stars in a sample of 62 Galactic globular clusters using proper motions from the second data release of the Gaia mission together with the most comprehensive set of line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. Sollima , H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker

The DESI Legacy Survey is a digital sky survey with a large footprint compared to other Earth-based surveys, covering both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This paper shows the distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Lior Shamir

Exploiting the slitless spectroscopy taken as part of the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), we present an extended analysis of the spatial distribution of star formation in 76 galaxies in 10 clusters at 0.3< z <0.7. We use 85…

Various models of structure formation can account for various aspects of the galaxy formation process on different scales, as well as for various observational features of structures. Thus, the investigation of galaxies orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Paulina Pajowska , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu , Joanna Popiela , Elena Panko , Piotr Flin