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(abridged) Photometry and long-slit spectroscopy are presented for a sample of 6 galaxies with a low surface brightness stellar disc and a bulge. The stellar and ionised-gas kinematics were measured along the major and minor axis in half of…

The only way to map the Galaxy's gravitational potential $\Phi({\bf x})$ and the distribution of matter that produces it is by modelling the dynamics of stars and gas. Observations of the kinematics of gas provide key information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Dehnen , James Binney

Some formulae are presented for finding two-integral distribution functions (DFs) which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

The disks of galaxies are primarily stellar systems, and fundamentally dynamical entities. Thus, to fully understand galactic disks, we must study their stellar kinematics as well as their morphologies. Observational techniques have now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Merrifield , Konrad Kuijken

Context: The modelling of stationary galactic stellar populations can be performed using distribution functions. Aims: This paper aims to write explicit integrals of motion and distribution functions. Methods: We propose an analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Olivier Bienayme

Evolution of galaxies is one of the most actual topics in astrophysics. Among the most important factors determining the evolution are two galactic components which are difficult or even impossible to detect optically: the gaseous disks and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 R. Kipper , E. Tempel , A. Tamm

In earlier papers in this series we determined the intrinsic stellar disc kinematics of fifteen intermediate to late type edge-on spiral galaxies using a dynamical modeling technique. From the photometry we find that intrinsically more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit , K. C. Freeman

Ionized gas and stellar kinematical parameters have been measured along the major axis of 20 nearby disc galaxies. We discuss the properties of each sample galaxy distinguishing between those characterized by regular or peculiar kinematics.…

The Milky Way disc presents a warp, a flare, lopsidedness and other deviations from a purely axisymmetrical double exponential density component, both for the stellar and the gas component. Moreover, recent large-scale extended kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

One of the major goals of the field of Milky Way dynamics is to recover the gravitational potential field. Mapping the potential would allow us to determine the spatial distribution of matter - both baryonic and dark - throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 Gregory M. Green , Yuan-Sen Ting , Harshil Kamdar

Distribution functions (DFs) for dynamically warm thin stellar disks residing in arbitrary axisymmetric potentials are presented which approximately reproduce pre-described surface-density and velocity-dispersion profiles. The functional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter Dehnen

An accurate computational method is presented to determine the mass distribution in a rotating thin-disk galaxy from given rotation curve by applying Newtonian dynamics for an axisymmetrically rotating thin disk of finite size with or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-17 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

A method is presented for finding anisotropic distribution functions for stellar systems with known, spherically symmetric, densities, which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

Using deep machine learning we show that the internal velocities of galaxies can be retrieved from optical images trained using 4596 systems observed with the SDSS-MaNGA survey. Using only $i$-band images we show that the velocity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Sakina Hansen , Christopher J. Conselice , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Leonardo Ferreira

Stellar kinematics provide a window into the gravitational field, and therefore into the distribution of all mass, including dark matter. Deep Potential is a method for determining the gravitational potential from a snapshot of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Taavet Kalda , Gregory M. Green , Soumavo Ghosh

By numerically solving the mass distribution in a rotating disk based on Newton's laws of motion and gravitation, we demonstrate that the observed flat rotation curves for most spiral galaxies correspond to exponentially decreasing mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-17 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

A minimum in stellar velocity dispersion is often observed in the central regions of disc galaxies. To investigate the origin of this feature, known as a {\sigma}-drop, we analyse the stellar kinematics of a high-resolution N-body + smooth…

In U. Nucamendi et al. Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 125016 and K. Lake, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 051101 it has been shown that galactic potentials can be kinematically linked to the observed red/blue shifts of the corresponding galactic rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-11 Cesar Alvarez , Olindo Corradini , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Ulises Nucamendi , Eli Santos

The distributions of the pairwise line-of-sight velocity between galaxies and their host clusters are segregated according to the galaxy's colour and morphology. We investigate the velocity distribution of red-spiral galaxies, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Akinari Hamabata , Taira Oogi , Masamune Oguri , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Nagashima

We present new equilibrium component distribution functions that depend on three analytic integrals in a Stackel potential, and that can be used to model stellar discs of galaxies. These components are generalizations of two-integral ones…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Famaey , K. Van Caelenberg , H. Dejonghe