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We use high resolution 2D hydrodynamic simulations to study the formation of spiral substructure in the gaseous disk of a galaxy. The obtained gaseous response is driven by a self-consistent non-axisymmetric potential obtained from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miguel A. Yáñez , Michael L. Norman , Marco A. Martos , John C. Hayes

Gas in disk galaxies interacts nonlinearly with an underlying stellar spiral potential to form galactic spiral shocks. While numerical simulations typically show that spiral shocks are unstable to wiggle instability (WI) even in the absence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Woong-Tae Kim , Yonghwi Kim , Jeong-Gyu Kim

The Interstellar Medium (ISM) is a complex, multi-phase system, where the history of the stars occurs. The processes of birth and death of stars are strongly coupled to the dynamics of the ISM. The observed chaotic and diffusive motions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves

The ISM is a turbulent, multi-phase, and multi-scale medium following scaling relations. Analytical models of galactic gaseous disks need to take into account the multi-scale and multi-phase nature of the interstellar medium. They can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 T. Lizée , B. Vollmer , J. Braine , P. Gratier , F. Bigiel

Gaia has revealed a variety of substructures in the phase space of stars in the Solar neighborhood, including the vertical `Snail' in $(z,v_z)$ space. Such substructures are often interpreted as the incompletely phase-mixed response of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Rimpei Chiba , Jupiter Ding , Chris Hamilton , Matthew W. Kunz , Scott Tremaine

We present results of cosmological simulations of disk galaxies carried out with the GADGET-3 TreePM+SPH code, where star formation and stellar feedback are described using our MUlti Phase Particle Integrator (MUPPI) model. This description…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-17 Giuseppe Murante , Pierluigi Monaco , Stefano Borgani , Luca Tornatore , Klaus Dolag , David Goz

Galactic outflows are a key agent of galaxy evolution, yet their observed multiphase nature remains difficult to reconcile with theoretical models, which often fail to explain how cold gas survives interactions with hot, fast winds. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Max Gronke , Philipp Grete

We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the star-forming multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in stratified galactic patches with gas surface densities $\Sigma_\mathrm{gas} =$ 10, 30, 50, and 100 $\mathrm{M_\odot\,pc^{-2}}$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Tim-Eric Rathjen , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Philipp Girichidis , Richard Wünsch

We have investigated the distributions of stellar azimuthal and radial velocity components $V_{\Phi}$ and $V_{R}$ in the vertical position-velocity plane $Z$-$V_{Z}$ across the Galactic disc of $6.34 \lesssim R \lesssim 12.34$\,kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 C. Wang , Y. Huang , H. -B. Yuan , M. -S. Xiang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -F. Wang , Y. -Q. Wu , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian , Y. Yang , M. Zhang , X. -W. Liu

Recent studies have shown that the passage of a massive satellite through the disk of a spiral galaxy can induce vertical wobbles in the disk and produce features such as in-plane rings and phase-space spirals. Here we analyze a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Haines , Elena D'Onghia , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte , Lars Hernquist

Advances in instrumentation have recently extended detailed measurements of gas kinematics to large samples of high-redshift galaxies. Relative to most nearby, thin disk galaxies, in which gas rotation accurately traces the gravitational…

We investigate the spatiotemporal structure of simulations of the homogeneous slab and isothermal plane models for the vertical motion in the Galactic disc. We use Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to compute eigenfunctions of the simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-17 Keir Darling , Lawrence M. Widrow

Signatures of vertical disequilibrium have been observed across the Milky Way's disk. These signatures manifest locally as unmixed phase-spirals in $z$--$v_z$ space ("snails-in-phase") and globally as nonzero mean $z$ and $v_z$ which wraps…

The vertical distribution of stars in the solar neighbourhood is not in equilibrium but contains a wave signature in both density and velocity space originating from a perturbation. With the discovery of the phase-space spiral in Gaia data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-15 Morgan Bennett , Jo Bovy

We present simulations of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) at solar neighbourhood conditions including thermal and non-thermal ISM processes, star cluster formation, and feedback from massive stars: stellar winds, hydrogen ionising…

Intermediate-scale spurs are common in spiral galaxies, but perhaps most distinctively evident in a recent HST image of M51 (Scoville & Rector 2001). We investigate, using time-dependent numerical MHD simulations, how such spurs could form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an important component in the interstellar medium (ISM), but their effect on the dynamics of the disk-halo interface (< 10 kpc from the disk) is still unclear. We study the influence of CRs on the gas above the disk…

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Álvaro Villalobos , Amina Helmi

Magnetic fields are an important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The thermal gas in the ISM has a multiphase structure, broadly divided into ionised, atomic, and molecular phases. The connection between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Amit Seta , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations including interstellar heating, cooling, and thermal conduction, we investigate nonlinear evolution of gas flow across galactic spiral arms. We model the gas as a non-self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker