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Galactic disks are highly responsive systems that often undergo external perturbations and subsequent collisionless equilibration, predominantly via phase-mixing. We use linear perturbation theory to study the response of infinite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-29 Uddipan Banik , Martin D. Weinberg , Frank C. van den Bosch

We investigate how the detectability of signatures of self-gravity in a protoplanetary disc depends on its temporal evolution. We run a one-dimensional model for secular timescales to follow the disc mass as a function of time. We then…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Cassandra Hall , Ruobing Dong , Ken Rice , Tim J. Harries , Joan Najita , Richard Alexander , Sean Brittain

We use the second data releases of the ESA Gaia astrometric survey and the high-resolution GALAH spectroscopic survey to analyse the structure of our Galaxy's disc components. With GALAH, we separate the alpha-rich and alpha-poor discs…

Disc stars from the Gaia DR3 RVS catalogue are selected to explore the phase spiral as a function of position in the Galaxy. The data reveal a two-armed phase spiral pattern in the local $z-v_z$ plane inside the solar radius, which appears…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chengdong Li , Arnaud Siebert , Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Simon Rozier

N-body simulations are used to model the tidal disruption of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy with constraints set by the positions and velocities of M giants in the Sgr tidal arms recently revealed by the Two Micron All-Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David R. Law , Steven R. Majewski , Kathryn V. Johnston , Michael F. Skrutskie

We study the vertical perturbations in the galactic disc of the Milky Way-size high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation named GARROTXA. We detect phase spirals in the vertical projection $Z- V_{Z}$ of disc's stellar particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-24 Begoña García-Conde , Santi Roca-Fàbrega , Teresa Antoja , Pau Ramos , Octavio Valenzuela

We present a comparison of semi-analytic models of the phase-space structure of tidal debris with observations of stars associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr). We find that many features in the data can be explained by these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. V. Johnston , S. R. Majewski , M. H. Siegel , I. N. Reid , W. E. Kunkel

We compare the distribution in position and velocity of nearby stars from the Gaia DR2 radial velocity sample with predictions of current theories for spirals in disc galaxies. Although the rich substructure in velocity space contains the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 J. A. Sellwood , Wilma Trick , Ray Carlberg , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy provides one of the most convincing examples of tidal interaction between satellite galaxies and the Milky Way (MW). The main body of the dwarf was recently demonstrated to have an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Ewa L. Lokas

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Axel Widmark , Jason A. S. Hunt , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Giacomo Monari

The perturbation mechanism of the Galactic disk has puzzled us for a long time. The imprints from perturbations provide important diagnostics on the disk formation and evolution. Here we try to constrain when the vertical perturbation took…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Hai-Jun Tian , Chao Liu , Yue Wu , Mao-Sheng Xiang , Yong Zhang

Data from the Gaia mission shows prominent phase-space spirals that are the signatures of disequilibrium in the Milky Way (MW) disc. In this work, we present a novel perspective on the phase-space spiral in angular momentum (AM) space.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-09 Rashid Yaaqib , Aneesh P. Naik , Jorge Peñarrubia , Michael S. Petersen

It is a challenge to reproduce the full 6D space-phase properties of Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy and its Stream simultaneously. Using N-body simulations with a Milky Way mass of 5.2$\times10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$ and a ``scaling down'' Sgr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Hai-Feng Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Francois Hammer , Jian-Ling Wang

We present N-body simulations of a Sagittarius-like dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr) that follow its orbit about the Milky Way (MW) since its first crossing of the Galaxy's virial radius to the present day. As Sgr orbits around the MW, it…

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

We present a detailed study of the internal structure and kinematics of the core of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr). Using machine-learning techniques, we have combined the information provided by 3300 RR Lyrae stars, more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Andrés del Pino , Mark A. Fardal , Roeland P. van der Marel , Ewa L. Łokas , Cecilia Mateu , Sangmo Tony Sohn

By combining the {\it LAMOST} and {\it Gaia} data, we investigate the vertical phase mixing across the Galactic disk. Our results confirm the existence of the phase space snail shells (or phase spirals) from 6 to 12 kpc. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Zhao-Yu Li

Gaia DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the kinematics of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, and has highlighted the degree of features in the Galactic disc. We confront the data with a range of bar and spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Jason A. S. Hunt , Mathew W. Bub , Jo Bovy , J. Ted Mackereth , Wilma H. Trick , Daisuke Kawata

We study the effect of disc self-gravity on vortex-forming instabilities associated with gaps opened by a Saturn mass planet in a protoplanetary disc. It is shown analytically and confirmed through linear calculations that vortex modes with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Min-Kai Lin , John Papaloizou

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…