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We study the effect of spiral arm passages on the evolution of star clusters on planar and circular orbits around the centres of galaxies. Individual passages with different relative velocity (V_drift) and arm width are studied using N-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Gieles , E. Athanassoula , S. F. Portegies Zwart

We explore the interplay between in-plane and vertical dynamics in stellar discs within the framework of the shearing box approximation. Julian and Toomre used the shearing sheet to show that leading density waves are amplified as they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Lawrence M. Widrow

The generation of spiral arms and the mechanisms controlling their properties within a realistic cosmological framework - the complete understanding is still beyond our grasp. Using a statistically significant sample of Milky Way- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-31 Soumavo Ghosh , Elena D'Onghia

Context: The Milky Way's history of recent disturbances is vividly demonstrated by a structure in the vertical phase-space distribution known as the Gaia phase spiral. A one-armed phase spiral has been seen widely across the Milky Way disc,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Simon Alinder , Paul McMillan , Thomas Bensby

Using particle-based simulations, we examine the collective dynamics of skyrmions interacting with periodic pinning arrays, focusing on the impact of the Magnus force on the sliding phases. As a function of increasing pinning strength, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Reichhardt , D. Ray , C. J. O. Reichhardt

2D axis-symmetric hydrodynamical simulations are presented which explore the interaction of stellar and disk winds with surrounding infalling cloud material. The star, and its accompanying disk, blow winds inside a cavity cleared out by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

Recent studies have revealed an oscillating asymmetry in the vertical structure of the Milky Way's disc. Here we analyze 16 high-resolution, fully cosmological simulations of the evolution of individual Milky Way-sized galaxies, carried out…

(Abridged) Based on the rapidly increasing all-sky data of Faraday rotation measures and polarised synchrotron radiation, the Milky Way's magnetic field is now modelled with an unprecedented level of detail and complexity. We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Gressel , Detlef Elstner , Udo Ziegler

APOGEE and Gaia data have revealed that the Milky Way's structure appears to have evolved through three distinct kinematic phases. First, at early cosmic times, the Milky Way was a disordered protogalaxy, which subsequently "spun up" to a…

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

We consider a differentially rotating, 2D stellar disk perturbed by two steady state spiral density waves moving at different patterns speeds. Our investigation is based on direct numerical integration of initially circular test-particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Minchev , A. C. Quillen

We present a new method for inferring the gravitational potential of the Galactic disk, using the time-varying structure of a phase-space spiral in the $(z,w)$-plane (where $z$ and $w$ represent vertical position and vertical velocity). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-30 Axel Widmark , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Pablo F. de Salas

Circumstellar disks in binaries are perturbed by the companion gravity causing significant alterations of the disk morphology. Spiral waves due to the companion tidal force also develop in the vertical direction and affect the disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Giovanni Picogna , Francesco Marzari

Galactic spiral shocks are dominant morphological features and believed to be responsible for substructure formation within spiral arms in disk galaxies. They can also contribute a substantial amount of kinetic energy to the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We investigate models of the Milky Way disc taking into account simultaneously the bar and a two-armed quasi-static spiral pattern. Away from major resonance overlaps, the mean stellar radial motions in the plane are essentially a linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Christian Boily

Multiwavelength observations, from radio to X-rays, have revealed the presence of multiphase high-velocity gas near the center of the Milky Way likely associated with powerful galactic outflows. This region offers a unique laboratory to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Andrea Afruni , Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Lucia Armillotta , Callum A. Lynn , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

Using high-resolution collisionless N-body simulations we study the properties of tidal tails formed in the immediate vicinity of a two-component dwarf galaxy evolving in a static potential of the Milky Way (MW). The stellar component of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Lucio Mayer , Gary A. Mamon , Francisco Prada

We use N-body/hydrodynamic simulations to study the evolution of the spin of a Milky Way-like galaxy through interactions. We perform a controlled experiment of co-planner galaxy-galaxy encounters and study the evolution of disk spins of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-02 Jeong-Sun Hwang , Changbom Park , Soo-hyeon Nam , Haeun Chung

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

We study how well the complex gas velocity fields induced by massive spiral arms are modelled by the hydrodynamical simulations we used to constrain the dark matter fraction in nearby spiral galaxies (Kranz et al. 2001, 2003). More…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adrianne Slyz , Thilo Kranz , Hans-Walter Rix