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The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) of the Milky Way is a dense, rotating stellar system in the central 200 pc. The NSD is thought to be primarily fuelled by bar-driven gas inflows from the inner Galactic disc. As part of the LEGARE project, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 E. Spitoni , M. Schultheis , F. Matteucci , N. Ryde , G. Cescutti , A. Saro , M. C. Sormani , B. Thorsbro

The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) is a rotating, disc-like structure in the Galactic Center, believed to have a distinct star formation. However, its formation history and evolutionary links to other structures in the Galactic Center remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 N. Ryde , G. Nandakumar , R. Albarracin , M. Schultheis , A. Rojas-Arriagada , M. Zoccali

We review our current understanding of nuclear stellar discs (NSDs), rotating, and flattened stellar structures found in the central regions of both early- and late-type galaxies. We examine their demographics, kinematics, stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 Mathias Schultheis , Mattia C. Sormani , Dimitri A. Gadotti

In the absence of an interaction, central bars might be the most effective mechanism for radial motions of gas in barred spiral galaxies, which represent two-thirds of disc galaxies. The dynamical effects induced by bars in the first few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-20 O. Cavichia , M. Mollá , R. D. D. Costa , W. J. Maciel

Since stellar populations enhance particular element abundances according to the yields and lifetimes of the stellar progenitors, the chemical evolution of galaxies serves as one of the key tools that allows the tracing of galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Hensler , A. Rieschick

We study radial migration and chemical evolution in a bar-dominated disk galaxy, by analyzing the results of a fully self-consistent, high resolution N-body+SPH simulation. We find different behaviours for gas and star particles. Gas within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-09-11 M. Kubryk , N. Prantzos , E. Athanassoula

The role of gas in the mass assembly at the nuclei of galaxies is still subject to some uncertainty. Stellar nuclear discs bridge the gap between the large-scale galaxy and the central massive objects that reside there. Using a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David R. Cole , Victor P. Debattista , Peter Erwin , Samuel W. F. Earp , Rok Roskar

Nuclear Stellar Disks (NSDs), of a few tens to hundreds of parsec across, are a common and yet poorly studied feature of early-type galaxies. Still, such small disks represent a powerful tool to constrain the assembling history of galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 H. R. Ledo , M. Sarzi , M. Dotti , S. Khochfar , L. Morelli

Massive star formation exhibits an extremely rich chemistry. However, not much evolutionary details are known yet, especially at high spatial resolution. Therefore, we synthesize previously published Submillimeter Array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Beuther , Q. Zhang , E. A. Bergin , T. K. Sridharan

The nuclear stellar disc (NSD) is, together with the nuclear star cluster (NSC) and the central massive black hole, one of the main components in the central parts of our Milky Way. However, until recently, only few studies of the stellar…

An important step in understanding the formation and evolution of the Nuclear Star Cluster (NSC) is to investigate its chemistry and chemical evolution. Additionally, exploring the relationship of the NSC to the other structures in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Govind Nandakumar , Nils Ryde , Mathias Schultheis , R. Michael Rich , Paola Di Matteo , Brian Thorsbro , Gregory Mace

The abundance gradients and the radial gas profile of the Galactic disc are analysed by means of a model for the chemical evolution of galaxies. As one of the major uncertainties in models for galaxy evolution is the star formation (SF)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Portinari , C. Chiosi

The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) is a flattened high-density stellar structure that dominates the gravitational field of the Milky Way at Galactocentric radius $30\lesssim R\lesssim 300$ pc. We construct axisymmetric self-consistent…

From the decades of the theoretical studies, it is well known that the formation of the bar triggers the gas funnelling into the central sub-kpc region and leads to the formation of a kinematically cold nuclear stellar disc (NSD). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Junichi Baba , Daisuke Kawata

We study the evolution of nitrogen in the Galactic halo, thick disc, thin disc and bulge by comparing detailed chemical evolution models with recent observations. The models used in this work have already been constrained to explain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Valeria Grisoni , Francesca Matteucci , Donatella Romano

We run self-consistent simulations of Milky Way-sized, isolated disk galaxies to study formation and evolution of a stellar bar as well as a nuclear ring in the presence of gas. We consider two sets of models with cold or warm disks that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Woo-Young Seo , Woong-Tae Kim , SungWon Kwak , Pei-Ying Hsieh , Cheongho Han , Phil F. Hopkins

For several decades now, open clusters have been used to study the structure and chemical evolution of the disk of our Galaxy. Due to the fact that their ages and metallicities can be determined with relatively good precision, and since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. E. Tecce , L. J. Pellizza , A. E. Piatti

The centres of disc galaxies host a variety of structures built via both internal and external processes. In this study, we constrain the formation and evolution of these central structures, in particular nuclear rings and nuclear discs, by…

The nuclear stellar disc (NSD) is a flat dense stellar structure at the heart of the Milky Way. Recent work has shown that analogous structures are common in the nuclei of external spiral galaxies, where there is evidence of an age gradient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 F. Nogueras-Lara , M. Schultheis , F. Najarro , M. C. Sormani , D. A. Gadotti , R. M. Rich

We present a multi-zone galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model for the Milky Way that takes the most recently updated yields of major nucleosynthesis channels into account. It incorporates physical processes commonly found in previous GCE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Boquan Chen , Michael R. Hayden , Sanjib Sharma , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Chiaki Kobayashi , Amanda I. Karakas
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