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We have mapped the number density and mean vertical velocity of the Milky Way's stellar disk out to roughly two kiloparsecs from the Sun using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and complementary photo-astrometric distance information from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Axel Widmark , Lawrence M. Widrow , Aneesh Naik

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

RoadMapping is a dynamical modeling machinery developed to constrain the Milky Way's (MW) gravitational potential by simultaneously fitting an axisymmetric parametrized potential and an action-based orbit distribution function (DF) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 Wilma H. Trick , Jo Bovy , Elena D'Onghia , Hans-Walter Rix

Action-based dynamical modelling, using stars as dynamical tracers, is an excellent diagnostic to estimate the underlying axisymmetric matter distribution of the Milky Way. However, the Milky Way's bar causes non-axisymmetric resonance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-27 Soumavo Ghosh , Wilma H. Trick , Gregory M. Green

Using observational data on the kinematical properties and density distributions of the subsystems of the Milky Way galaxy, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of its disk. The dynamics of the disk is studied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 V. I. Korchagin , S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Khoperskov

We quantify how bar-driven non-circular motions bias Milky-Way gas maps inferred with the kinematic-distance (KD) method. KD reconstructions of H\,\textsc{i} and CO surveys assume circular rotation in an axisymmetric potential, an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-05 Junichi Baba

We present a new theoretical population synthesis model (the Galaxy Model) to examine and deal with large amounts of data from surveys of the Milky Way and to decipher the present and past structure and history of our own Galaxy. We assume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Pasetto , G. Natale , D. Kawata , C. Chiosi , J. A. S. Hunt , C. Brogliato

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 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…

Bars and spirals are among the main drivers of the secular evolution of galactic disks, and it is, thus, of prime importance to better understand their exact nature and dynamics. In this respect, the Milky Way provides a unique laboratory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Ivan Minchev

We present gas flow models for the Milky Way based on high-resolution grid-based hydrodynamical simulations. The basic galactic potential we use is from a N-body model constrained by the density of red clump giants in the Galactic bulge. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Zhi Li , Ortwin Gerhard , Juntai Shen , Matthieu Portail , Christopher Wegg

The gas dynamics in the Galactic disc is modeled by releasing an initially axisymmetric SPH component in a completely self-consistent and symmetry-free 3D N-body simulation of the Milky Way in which the stellar components display a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Fux

The mean Galactocentric radial velocities $\langle v_{R}\rangle(R,\varphi)$ of luminous red giant stars within the mid-plane of the Milky Way reveal a spiral signature, which could plausibly reflect the response to a non-axisymmetric…

We investigate the kinematic signatures induced by spiral and bar structure in a set of simulations of Milky Way-sized spiral disc galaxies. The set includes test particle simulations that follow a quasi-stationary density wave-like…

Using recent observational data, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of the disk of a Milky Way-like galaxy. The disk dynamics are studied using collisionless-gaseous numerical simulations, based on the joined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-10 Sergey Khrapov , Alexander Khoperskov , Vladimir Korchagin

The circular speed curve of the Milky Way provides a key constraint on its mass distribution, reflecting the axisymmetric component of the gravitational potential. This is especially critical in the inner Galaxy ($R \lesssim 4$ kpc), where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-18 Junichi Baba

We present a method to constrain the potential of the non-axisymmetric components of the Galaxy using the kinematics of stars in the solar neighborhood. The basic premise is that dynamical substructures in phase-space (i.e. due to the bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Giacomo Monari , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi

In an equilibrium axisymmetric galactic disc, the mean galactocentric radial and vertical velocities are expected to be zero everywhere. In recent years, various large spectroscopic surveys have however shown that stars of the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Carole Faure , Arnaud Siebert , Benoit Famaey

Starting from an axisymmetric equilibrium distribution function (DF) in action space, representing a Milky Way thin disc stellar population, we use the linearized Boltzmann equation to explicitly compute the response to a three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-23 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert

The Milky Way spiral arms are well established from star counts as well as from the locus of molecular clouds and other young objects, however, they have only recently started to be observed from a kinematics point of view. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-15 Luis Martinez-Medina , Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Antonio Peimbert
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