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We built models for low bulge mass spiral galaxies (late type as defined by the Hubble classification) using a 3-D self-gravitating model for spiral arms, and analyzed the orbital dynamics as a function of pitch angle, going from 10$\deg$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Angeles Perez-Villegas , Barbara Pichardo , Edmundo Moreno , Antonio Peimbert , Hector M. Velazquez

There is now strong evidence that the metal-rich globular clusters (GC) near the center of our Galaxy are associated with the Galactic bulge rather than the disk as previously thought. Here we extend the concept of bulge GCs to the GC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie , Soeren S. Larsen

We look for correlated changes in stellar mass and star formation rate along filaments in the cosmic web by examining the stellar masses and UV-derived star formation rates (SFR) of 1,799 ungrouped and unpaired spiral galaxies that reside…

Theoretical studies on the response of interstellar gas to a gravitational potential disc with a quasi-stationary spiral arm pattern suggest that the gas experiences a sudden compression due to standing shock waves at spiral arms. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Fumi Egusa , Erin Mentuch Cooper , Jin Koda , Junichi Baba

Modern cosmological simulations model the universe with increasing sophistication and at higher spatial and temporal resolutions. These enhancements permit detailed comparisons between the simulation outputs and real observational data.…

Spiral galaxies are ubiquitous in the local Universe. However the properties of spiral arms in them are still not well studied, and there is even less information concerning spiral structure in distant galaxies. We aim to measure the most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Ilia V. Chugunov , Alexander A. Marchuk , Aleksandr V. Mosenkov

We have studied the globular cluster (GC) systems of 7 giant, edge-on spiral galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope imaging in V and I. The galaxy sample covers the Hubble types Sa to Sc, allowing us to study the variation of the properties…

We present a sample of edge-on spiral galaxies both of early and late types.The sample consists of 175 galaxies in the Ks-filter, 169 galaxies in the H-filter and 165 galaxies in the J-filter. Bulge and disc decompositions of each galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 N. Ya. Sotnikova , V. P. Reshetnikov , A. V. Mosenkov

The dynamical nature and formation mechanism(s) of galactic spiral arms remain long-standing problems in astrophysics. Most theoretical work is based on analytic calculations or idealised simulations, which has yielded several theories of…

A detailed analysis of the galaxy distribution in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS) by means of the multifractal or scaling formalism is presented. It is shown that galaxies cluster in different ways according to their morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Campos , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , G. Yepes

We present an analysis of the global stellar populations of galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Our sample consists of 1319 galaxies spanning four orders of magnitude in stellar mass and includes all morphologies and environments. We derive…

While it is clear that spiral galaxies can have different handedness, galaxies with clockwise patterns are assumed to be symmetric in all of their other characteristics to galaxies with counterclockwise patterns. Here we use data from SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Lior Shamir

We examine the fraction of early-type (and spiral) galaxies found in groups and clusters of galaxies as a function of dark matter halo mass. We use morphological classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project matched to halo masses from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ben Hoyle , Karen. L. Masters , Robert C. Nichol , Raul Jimenez , Steven P. Bamford

In this Letter, we analyse the distributions of stellar ages in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in spiral arms, inter-arm spurs, and at large galactic radii, where the spiral arms are relatively weak. We use the results of numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. L. Dobbs , J. E. Pringle , T. Naylor

For a sample of 4378 nearby spiral and S0 galaxies, Yu and Ho (2020) used Fourier analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey images to show that the strengths of the spiral arms and the pitch angles of the arms are inversely correlated with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Beverly J. Smith , Mark L. Giroux , Curtis Struck

Spiral galaxies have most of their stellar mass in a large rotating disk, and only a modest fraction in a central spheroidal bulge. This poses a major challenge for cosmological models of galaxy formation. Galaxies form at the centre of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marie Martig , Frederic Bournaud

We identify stellar structures in the PHANGS sample of 74 nearby galaxies and construct morphological masks of sub-galactic environments based on Spitzer 3.6 micron images. At the simplest level, we distinguish centres, bars, spiral arms,…

[Abridged] Aims. We study the properties of filamentary structures from the ATLASGAL survey. Methods. We use the DisPerSE algorithm to identify spatially coherent structures located across the inner-Galaxy (300 < l < 60 and |b| < 1.5).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Guang-Xing Li , J. S. Urquhart , S. Leurini , T. Csengeri , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten , F. Schuller

What role does Galactic structure play in star formation? We have used the Herschel Hi-GAL compact-clump catalogue to examine trends in evolutionary stage over large spatial scales in the inner Galaxy. We examine the relationship between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 S. E. Ragan , T. J. T. Moore , D. J. Eden , M. G. Hoare , J. S. Urquhart , D. Elia , S. Molinari

Stellar shells are low surface brightness arcs of overdense stellar regions, extending to large galactocentric distances. In a companion study, we identified 39 shell galaxies in a sample of 220 massive ellipticals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-08 Ana-Roxana Pop , Annalisa Pillepich , Nicola C. Amorisco , Lars Hernquist