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Spiral structures are one of the most common features in galaxies, yet their origins and evolution remain debated. Stellar age distributions offer crucial insights into galaxy evolution and star formation, though environmental effects can…

Determining stellar ages is challenging, as it depends on other stellar parameters in a non-linear way and often relies on stellar evolution models to infer the underlying relation between these parameters and age. This complexity increases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yuxi Lu , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Yuan-Sen Ting , Phil R. Van-Lane , John D Roberts , Jamie Tayar , Alexander Stone-Martinez

Stars in the Galactic disk are born on cold, nearly circular orbits with small vertical excursions. After their birth, their orbits evolve, driven by small- or large-scale perturbations in the Galactic disk's gravitational potential. Here,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-11 D. N. Garzon , Neige Frankel , Eleonora Zari , Maosheng Xiang , Hans-Walter Rix

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 $<$ $R$ $<$ 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize the median, dispersion and skewness of the distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Yaqian Wu , Maosheng Xiang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Chengdong Li , Yaguang Li , Yang Huang

The kinematics of the Milky Way disc as a function of age are well measured at the solar radius, but have not been studied over a wider range of Galactocentric radii. Here, we measure the kinematics of mono-age, mono-$\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$…

We have used the velocity dispersion as an age indicator to constrain the ages of a large sample of main sequence Vega-like stars in order to study the lifetimes and temporal evolution of the dust disks around them. We use HIPPARCOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Manoj , H. C. Bhatt

Using tools previously described and applied to the prototype galaxy NGC 891, we model the optical to far-infrared spectral energy distributions (SED) of four additional edge-on spiral galaxies, namely NGC 5907, NGC 4013, UGC 1082 and UGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Misiriotis , C. C. Popescu , R. Tuffs , N. D. Kylafis

The age-velocity dispersion relation is an important tool to understand the evolution of the disc of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) in comparison with the Milky Way. We use Planetary Nebulae (PNe) to obtain the age-velocity dispersion relation…

It has long been known that the vertical motions of Galactic disk stars increase with stellar age, commonly interpreted as vertical heating through orbit scattering. Here we map the vertical actions of disk stars as a function of age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix

We have done a detailed study on the structural and kinematical properties of lenticular and early- and late-type spiral galaxies with bars, aiming to explore the formation and evolution processes of stellar bars in galaxies, and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitri Alexei Gadotti

Active region evolution plays an important role in the generation and variability of magnetic fields on the surface of lower main-sequence stars. However, determining the lifetime of active region growth and decay as well as their evolution…

High resolution 2D hydrodynamical simulations describing the evolution of the hot ISM in axisymmetric two-component models of early-type galaxies well reproduced the observed trends of the X-ray luminosity ($L_\mathrm{x}$) and temperature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-01 Andrea Negri , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

Using the deepest and the most complete set of observations of distant galaxies, we investigate how extended disks could have formed. Observations include spatially-resolved kinematics, detailed morphologies and photometry from UV to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Hammer , M. Puech , H. Flores , E. Athanassoula , Y. B. Yang , J. L. Wang , M. Rodrigues , S. Fouquet

We use the second Gaia data release in combination with the catalog of Sanders & Das (2018) to dissect the Milky Way disc in phase-space and relative ages. We confirm and report the existence of multiple velocity moving groups at low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Benoit Famaey , Giacomo Monari , Vanessa Hill , Christopher Wegg , Ortwin Gerhard

We present an evolutionary disc model for the thin disc in the solar cylinder based on a continuous star formation history and a continuous dynamical heating of the stellar subpopulations. The vertical distribution of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Just , H. Jahreiss

Recent low-redshift observations have attempted to determine the star formation histories of elliptical galaxies by tracking correlations between the stellar population parameters (age and metallicity) and the structural parameters that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-31 L. A. Porter , R. S. Somerville , D. J. Croton , M. D. Covington , G. J. Graves , S. M. Faber , J. R. Primack

The study of the Milky Way stellar discs in the context of galaxy formation is discussed. In particular we explore the properties of the Milky Way disc using a new sample of about 550 dwarf stars for which we have recently obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Feltzing , T. Bensby

In this paper we investigate how the chemical and kinematic properties of stars vary as a function of age. Using data from a variety of photometric, astrometric and spectroscopic surveys, we calculate the ages, phase space information and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 John J. Vickers , Martin C. Smith

We study two dimensional Fabry-Perot interferometric observations of the nearby face-on late-type spiral galaxy, NGC 628. We investigate the role of the individual HII regions together with the large-scale gravitational mechanisms which…

We present the parameters of 891 stars, mostly clump giants, including atmospheric parameters, distances, absolute magnitudes, spatial velocities, galactic orbits and ages. One part of this sample consists of local giants, within 100 pc,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Soubiran , O. Bienayme , T. V. Mishenina , V. V. Kovtyukh