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In 2018, the ESA \Gaia\ satellite discovered a remarkable spiral pattern ("phase spiral") in the $z-V_z$ phase plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where $z$ and $V_z$ are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Thor Tepper-Garcia

The phase spiral is a perturbation to the vertical phase-space distribution of stars in the Milky Way disk. We study the phase spiral's properties and how they vary with spatial position, in order to constrain its origin and evolution, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-29 Axel Widmark , Kiyan Tavangar , Josh Kalish , Kathryn V. Johnston , Jason A. S. Hunt

The GAIA satellite will provide unprecedented phase-space information for our Galaxy and enable a new era of Galactic dynamics. We may soon see successful realizations of Galactoseismology, i.e., inferring the characteristics of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Sukanya Chakrabarti

We discuss the physical mechanism by which pure vertical bending waves in a stellar disc evolve to form phase space spirals similar to those discovered by Antoja et al. ( arXiv:1804.10196) in Gaia Data Release 2. These spirals were found by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-01 Keir Darling , Lawrence M. Widrow

{\it Gaia} Data Release 2 (DR2) revealed that the Milky Way contains significant indications of departures from equilibrium in the form of asymmetric features in the phase space density of stars in the Solar neighborhood. One such feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-28 Jason A. S. Hunt , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Kathryn V. Johnston , Elise Darragh-Ford

Context: With the data releases from the astrometric space mission Gaia, the exploration of the structure of the Milky Way has developed in unprecedented detail and unveiled many previously unknown structures in the Galactic disc and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 S. Alinder , P. J. McMillan , T. Bensby

The characteristics of Gaia catalogues, such as trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of stars, are discussed. Radial velocities of stars are also important for studying spatial motions. The most important results of the kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova

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…

The discovery of the phase space spirals in the Solar neighborhood in Gaia Data Release 2 has prompted various attempts to understand their origin. A source of bending waves, which has been neglected as a cause of the phase spiral, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Shuyu Wang , Anthony G. A. Brown , Victor P. Debattista , Tigran Khachaturyants

The Gaia satellite revealed a remarkable spiral pattern ('phase spiral', PS) in the z-Vz phase-plane throughout the solar neighbourhood, where z and Vz are the displacement and velocity of a star perpendicular to the Galactic plane. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Timothy R. Bedding , Christoph Federrath , Oscar Agertz

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

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

Using a single N-body simulation ($N=0.14\times 10^9$) we explore the formation, evolution and spatial variation of the phase-space spirals similar to those recently discovered by Antoja et al. in the Milky Way disk, with Gaia DR2. For the…

We have applied our method for weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals to the Gaia EDR3 proper motion sample. For stars in distant regions of the Galactic disk, the latitudinal proper motion has a close projection with vertical…

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

The Gaia satellite will observe the positions and velocities of over a billion Milky Way stars. In the early data releases, the majority of observed stars do not have complete 6D phase-space information. In this Letter, we demonstrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 Adriana Dropulic , Bryan Ostdiek , Laura J. Chang , Hongwan Liu , Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti

We aim to study the phase spiral in the Milky Way (MW) with Gaia DR3. We used an edge detection algorithm to find the border of the phase spiral, allowing us to robustly quantify its shape at different positions and for different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-26 T. Antoja , P. Ramos , B. García-Conde , M. Bernet , C. F. P. Laporte , D. Katz

Decoding the key dynamical processes that shape the Galactic disk structure is crucial for reconstructing the Milky Way's evolution history. The second Gaia data release unveils a novel wave pattern in the $L_Z-\langle V_R\rangle$ space,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Chengye Cao , Zhao-Yu Li , Ralph Schönrich , Teresa Antoja

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

The Gaia mission has triggered major developments in the field of Galactic dynamics in recent years, which we discuss in this review. The structure and kinematics of all Galactic components - disc, bar/bulge and halo - are now mapped in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-17 Jason A. S. Hunt , Eugene Vasiliev

A simple model is presented of the formation of the spiral the (z,v_z) phase plane of solar-neighbourhood stars that was recently discovered in Gaia data. The key is that the frequency Omega_z at which stars oscillate vertically depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 James Binney , Ralph Schoenrich
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