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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

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

{\it Gaia} Data Release 2 (DR2) revealed that the Milky Way contains significant indications of departures from equilibrium in the form of asymmetric features in the phase space density of stars in the Solar neighborhood. One such feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-28 Jason A. S. Hunt , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Kathryn V. Johnston , Elise Darragh-Ford

The vertical phase-space spirals in the Milky Way are clear evidence of disequilibrium. However, they are challenging to study because phase mixing signals evolve under the influence of many different dynamical processes and can be driven…

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…

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: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Douglas A. Barros , Jacques R. D. Lépine

We examine the idea that dynamical parameters can be estimated by identifying locations in the solar neighbourhood where simulated velocity distributions match the observed local distribution. Here, the dynamical influence of both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dalia Chakrabarty

Large spectroscopic and astrometric surveys have revealed complex wave-like features in the Milky Way disk, suggesting that its kinematic and chemical structures are shaped by time-dependent perturbations. Recent studies have reported…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Jifei Wang , Zhuohan Li , Chengdong Li , Yuqin Chen , Chengqun Yang , Zixi Guo , Zhou Fan , Hongrui Gu , Maoli Bu

Signatures of vertical disequilibrium have been observed across the Milky Way's disk. These signatures manifest locally as unmixed phase-spirals in $z$--$v_z$ space ("snails-in-phase") and globally as nonzero mean $z$ and $v_z$ which wraps…

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…

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

The structure of spiral galaxies is essential to understanding the dynamics and evolution of disk galaxies; however, the precise nature of spiral arms remains uncertain. Two challenges in understanding the mechanisms driving spirals are how…

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

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

Aims. We constrain the dynamical perturbations of the spiral arms in the Milky Way disk, based on the non-axisymmetric streaming motions of RGB stars revealed by APOGEE and \textit{Gaia}. Methods. We develop a revised steady-state…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xi-Can Tang , Zhi Li , Iulia T. Simion , Hao Tian , Zhijian Luo , Shuting Fan , Zi-Qi Li

We have developed a simple yet surprisingly accurate analytic scheme for tracking the dynamical evolution of substructure within larger dark halos. The scheme incorporates the effects of dynamical friction, tidal mass loss and tidal heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Taylor , Arif Babul

The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with different tracers used to solve this puzzle. The astrometry of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Ye Xu , Ligang Hou , Yuanwei Wu

Planet-disk interactions can produce kinematic signatures in protoplanetary disks. While recent observations have detected non-Keplerian gas motions in disks, their origins are still being debated. To explore this, we conduct 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Kan Chen , Ruobing Dong

Observational manifestations of disturbances in a protoplanetary disk caused by a collision with a massive planet are studied. It is assumed that the planet moves along a parabolic trajectory that intersects the disk plane near the star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tatiana Demidova , Vitaliy Grigoryev

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
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