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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

{\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

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

Gaia recently revealed a two-armed spiral pattern in the vertical phase-space distribution of the inner Galactic disk (guiding radius $R_\textrm{g} \sim 6.2$ kpc), indicating that some non-adiabatic perturbation symmetric about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Rimpei Chiba , Neige Frankel , Chris Hamilton

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

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…

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

We discuss the physical mechanism by which pure vertical bending waves in a stellar disc evolve to form phase space spirals similar to those discovered by Antoja et al. ( arXiv:1804.10196) in Gaia Data Release 2. These spirals were found by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-01 Keir Darling , Lawrence M. Widrow

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 Gaia satellite revealed a remarkable spiral pattern ('phase spiral', PS) in the z-Vz phase-plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where z and Vz are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the Galactic plane. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Timothy R. Bedding , Christoph Federrath , Oscar Agertz

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…

A simple model is presented of the formation of the spiral the (z,v_z) phase plane of solar-neighbourhood stars that was recently discovered in Gaia data. The key is that the frequency Omega_z at which stars oscillate vertically depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 James Binney , Ralph Schoenrich

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…

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

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

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 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…

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

We develop a novel method to simultaneously determine the vertical potential, force and stellar $z-v_z$ phase space distribution function (DF) in our local patch of the Galaxy. We assume that the Solar Neighborhood can be treated as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Haochuan Li , Lawrence M. Widrow

We compare the distribution in position and velocity of nearby stars from the Gaia DR2 radial velocity sample with predictions of current theories for spirals in disc galaxies. Although the rich substructure in velocity space contains the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 J. A. Sellwood , Wilma Trick , Ray Carlberg , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix
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