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The bar pattern speed of the LMC has been measured using Gaia data, suggesting the presence of a slow pattern, perhaps not rotating at all. Numerical simulations of interacting LMC-SMC systems were able to reproduce a bar stoppage. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 V. Araya , L. Chemin , O. Jimenez-Arranz , M. Romero-Gomez

The relevance of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method is tested to measure the bar, spiral and inner structure pattern speeds using a gaseous velocity field. The TW method is applied to various simulated barred galaxies in order to demonstrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Hernandez , H. Wozniak , C. Carignan , P. Amram , L. Chemin , O. Daigle

We use the continuity equation to derive a method for measuring the pattern speed of the Milky Way's bar/bulge from proper motion data. The method has minimal assumptions but requires complete coverage of the non-axisymmetric component in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Jason L. Sanders , Leigh Smith , N. Wyn Evans

Most secular effects produced by stellar bars strongly depend on the pattern speed. Unfortunately, it is also the most difficult observational parameter to estimate. In this work, we measured the bar pattern speed of 97 Milky-Way Analogue…

The Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method and its variations provide the most direct means to measure the pattern speeds of galactic bars. We establish a unifying framework by deriving an integral form of the continuity equation over an arbitrary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Hangci Du , Yougang Wang , Junqiang Ge , Rui Guo

We have applied the Tremaine-Weinberg method to 10 late-type barred spiral galaxies using data cubes, in H-alpha emission, from the GHAFAS and FANTOMM Fabry-Perot spectrometers. We have combined the derived bar (and/or spiral) pattern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Kambiz Fathi , John Beckman , Nuria Piñol-Ferrer , Olivier Hernandez , Inma Martinez-Valpuesta , Claude Carignan

The dynamics of a barred galaxy depends on the angular velocity or pattern speed of its bar. Indeed, it is related to the location of corotation where gravitational and centrifugal forces cancel out in the rest frame of the bar. The only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-08 E. M. Corsini

We have used the Tremaine-Weinberg method to measure the angular speed of rotation for the bar in the SB0 galaxy NGC 936. With this technique, the bar's pattern speed, Omega_p, can be derived from the luminosity and stellar-kinematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michael R. Merrifield , Konrad Kuijken

We apply the Tremaine-Weinberg method of pattern speed determination to data cubes of CO emission in six spiral galaxies from the BIMA SONG survey each with an ISM dominated by molecular gas. We compare derived pattern speeds with estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard J. Rand , John F. Wallin

A significant fraction of barred spiral galaxies exhibits peanut/X-shaped structures in their central regions. Bars are known to rotate with a single pattern speed, and they eventually slow down over time due to the dynamical friction with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-10 Pavan Vynatheya , Kanak Saha , Soumavo Ghosh

We compare distance resolved, absolute proper motions in the Milky Way bar/bulge region to a grid of made-to-measure dynamical models with well defined pattern speeds. The data are obtained by combining the relative VVV Infrared Astrometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-29 Jonathan Clarke , Ortwin Gerhard

Context: The high quality of the Gaia mission data is allowing to study the internal kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in unprecedented detail, providing insights on the non-axisymmetric structure of its disc. Aims: To define…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Ó. Jiménez-Arranz , M. Romero-Gómez , X. Luri , P. J. McMillan , T. Antoja , L. Chemin , S. Roca-Fàbrega , E. Masana , A. Muros

Context: Using Gaia DR3 data, Jim\'enez-Arranz et al. (2024a) computed the LMC bar pattern speed using three different methods. One of them suggested that the LMC might be hosting a bar that barely rotates, and is slightly counter-rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Óscar Jiménez-Arranz , Santi Roca-Fàbrega

The bar pattern speed ($\Omega_{\rm b}$) is defined as the rotational frequency of the bar, and it determines the bar dynamics. Several methods have been proposed for measuring $\Omega_{\rm b}$. The non-parametric method proposed by…

The grand-design spiral galaxy M51 has long been a crucial target for theories of spiral structure. Studies of this iconic spiral can address the question of whether strong spiral structure is transient (e.g. interaction-driven) or…

The dynamics of a barred galaxy depends on the pattern speed of its bar. The only direct method for measuring the pattern speed of a bar is the Tremaine-Weinberg technique. This method relies on the analysis of the distribution and dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Corsini

Estimating the bar pattern speed (\Om{}) is one of the main challenges faced in understanding the role of stellar bars in galaxy dynamical evolution. This work aims to characterise different uncertainty sources affecting the Tremaine…

Theories that attempt to explain the dynamical relationship between bar and spiral patterns in galactic disks make different predictions about the radial profile of the pattern speed. These are tested for the H-alpha bar and spiral patterns…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-20 Jason C. Speights , Paul C. Rooke

The internal kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk have been modeled by several studies using different tracers with varying coverage, resulting in a range of parameters. Here, we modeled the LMC disk using 1705 star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 S. R. Dhanush , A. Subramaniam , S. Subramanian

We measured the bar pattern speed in a sample of 7 SB0 galaxies using the Tremaine-Weinberg method. This represents the largest sample of galaxies for which bar pattern speed has been measured this way. All the observed bars are as rapidly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico Maria Corsini , J. A. L. Aguerri , Victor P. Debattista
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