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We present a new mechanism to explain the frequently observed and thus certainly permanent warping of spiral galaxies. We consider the possibility of non-linear coupling between the spiral wave of the galaxy and two warp waves, such that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Masset , M. Tagger

We present a new method for recovering the underlying velocity field from an observed distribution of galaxies in redshift space. The method is based on a kinematic Zel'dovich relation between the velocity and density fields in redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Adi Nusser , Marc Davis

In this paper we explore numerically the evolution of a warped accretion disc. Here, we focus here on the regime where the warp evolves diffusively. By comparing the numerical results to a simple diffusion model, we are able to determine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giuseppe Lodato , J. E. Pringle

Context. Thanks to recent large scale surveys in the near infrared such as 2MASS, the galactic plane that most suffers from extinction is revealed and its overall structure can be studied. Aims. This work aims at constraining the structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 C. Reyle , D. J. Marshall , A. C. Robin , M. Schultheis

In this paper we consider the viability of these non-gravitational torques to take the gas off the plane. We show that magnetically generated warps are clearly flawed because they would wrap up into a spiral in less than two or three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo

Dark matter mass density profiles and velocity distributions for a set of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have recently been obtained (F.Bezrukov, D.Gorbunov, E.Koreshkova arXiv:2412.20585) by performing a multi-parametric fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Fedor Bezrukov , Dmitry Gorbunov , Ekaterina Koreshkova

A simple model for the dust media describing evolution of the system like spiral galaxy is considered. In contrast to previous considerations we show that the initial density fold should be quasi-one-dimensional (bar-like) instead of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Filippov , A. S. Zhedanov

We present an analysis of the H2 emission-line gas kinematics in the inner < 4 arcsec radius of six nearby spiral galaxies, based on AO-assisted integral-field observations obtained in the K-band with SINFONI/VLT. Four of the six galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 X. Mazzalay , W. Maciejewski , P. Erwin , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender , M. H. Fabricius , N. Nowak , S. P. Rusli , J. Thomas

Inverting an evolving diffusive scalar field to reconstruct the underlying velocity field is an underdetermined problem. Here we show, however, that for two-dimensional incompressible flows, this inverse problem can still be uniquely solved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 Arjun Sharma , Irina I. Rypina , Ruth Musgrave , George Haller

Within a Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) scenario, we use high resolution cosmological simulations spanning over four orders of magnitude in galaxy mass to understand the deficit of dwarf galaxies in observed velocity functions. We measure…

We analyze three epochs of HST imaging over 20 years for the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, measuring precise proper motions for 119 stars and combining them with 1760 existing line-of-sight velocities. This catalog yields the first…

Context: High-resolution images of circumstellar debris discs reveal off-centred rings that indicate past or ongoing perturbation, possibly caused by secular gravitational interaction with unseen stellar or substellar companions. The purely…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. Löhne , A. V. Krivov , F. Kirchschlager , J. A. Sende , S. Wolf

Galaxies inhabit a wide range of environments and therefore are affected by different physical mechanisms. Spatially resolved maps combined with the knowledge of the hosting environment are very powerful to classify galaxies by physical…

We present a statistical study of the presence of galaxy warps in the Hubble deep fields. Among a complete sample of 45 edge-on galaxies above a diameter of 1.''3, we find 5 galaxies to be certainly warped and 6 galaxies as good candidates.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Reshetnikov , E. Battaner , F. Combes , J. Jimenez-Vicente

We derive unbiased distance estimates for the Gaia-TGAS dataset by correcting for the bias due to the distance dependence of the selection function, which we measure directly from the data. From these distances and proper motions, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Ralph Schönrich , Walter Dehnen

We analyze integral-field ionized gas and stellar line-of-sight kinematics in the context of determining the stellar velocity ellipsoid for spiral galaxies observed by the Disk-Mass Survey. Our new methodology enables us to measure, for the…

We present a harmonic expansion of the observed line-of-sight velocity field as a method to recover and investigate spiral structures in the nuclear regions of galaxies. We apply it to the emission-line velocity field within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-27 Glenn van de Ven , Kambiz Fathi

We present a modification of the method for reconstructing the stellar velocity ellipsoid (SVE) in disc galaxies. Our version does not need any parametrization of the velocity dispersion profiles and uses only one assumption that the ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-27 A. A. Marchuk , N. Y. Sotnikova

Models of disc galaxies which invoke viscosity-driven radial flows have long been known to provide a natural explanation for the origin of stellar exponential discs, under the assumption that the star formation and viscous timescales are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Annette Ferguson , Cathie Clarke

In this review we consider various ring structures that are observed in galaxies. Formation and evolution of the rings are interesting problems in studies of galactic morphology. They are related to such fundamental aspects of galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Moiseev , D. V. Bizyaev