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With a help of hydrodynamical models, we explore fundamental modes of gas flow in central parts of a galaxy potential with non-axisymmetric perturbations of various strengths. Our grid-based algorithm allows us to get a detailed picture of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

The ``galactic shocks'' \citep{fujimoto68,roberts69} is investigated using a full three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, taking into account self-gravity of the ISM, radiative cooling, and star formation followed by energy feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiichi Wada

Shadows are often observed in transition disks, which can result from obscuring by materials closer to the star, such as a misaligned inner disk. While shadows leave apparent darkened emission as observational signatures, they have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

Circumstellar asymmetries such as central warps have recently been shown to cast shadows on outer disks. We investigate the hydrodynamical consequences of such variable illumination on the outer regions of a transition disk, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Matias Montesinos , Sebastian Perez , Simon Casassus , Sebastian Marino , Jorge Cuadra , Valentin Christiaens

Tidal interactions between disc galaxies and low mass companions are an established method for generating galactic spiral features. In this work we present a study of the structure and dynamics of spiral arms driven in interactions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-06 Alex R. Pettitt , Elizabeth J. Tasker , James W. Wadsley

The results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of galactic disks, which are submerged into nonaxisymmetric dark massive halo are discussed. Galaxy disks dynamics in the nonaxisymmetric (triaxial) dark halo were investigated in detail…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-15 Alexander Khoperskov , Mikhail Eremin , Sergej Khoperskov , Marija Butenko , Sergej Khrapov

The spiral structure of a spiral galaxy can be seen through different observational tracers such as the dust in the interstellar medium, the free electrons in ionized regions, the molecular gas, or the atomic hydrogen in H{\alpha} regions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 David Felipe Barros Ramirez , Juan Carlos Muñoz-Cuartas

We run N-body smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a Milky Way sized galaxy. The code takes into account hydrodynamics, self-gravity, star formation, supernova and stellar wind feedback, radiative cooling and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

Gravitational instabilities can drive small-scale turbulence and large-scale spiral arms in massive gaseous disks under conditions of slow radiative cooling. These motions affect the observed disk morphology, its mass accretion rate and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 W. Béthune , H. Latter , W. Kley

Spiral density wave theory attempts to describe the spiral pattern in spiral galaxies in terms of a long-lived wave structure with a constant pattern speed in order to avoid the winding dilemma. The pattern is consequently a rigidly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand , Mark Cropper

We investigate the dynamics of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies by performing 3D MHD simulations of galactic discs subject to a spiral potential. Recent hydrodynamic simulations have demonstrated the formation of inter-arm spurs as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Dobbs , D. J. Price

Galaxies moving through the gas of the intracluster medium (ICM) experience ram pressure stripping, which can leave behind a gas tail. When a disk galaxy receives the wind edge-on, however, the characteristic signature is not a typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Rubens E. G. Machado , Caroline F. O. Grinberg , Elvis A. Mello-Terencio

We examine whether various characteristics of planet-driven spiral arms can be used to constrain the masses of unseen planets and their positions within their disks. By carrying out two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations varying planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

Recent observations of gaps and non-axisymmetric features in the dust distributions of transition disks have been interpreted as evidence of embedded massive protoplanets. However, comparing the predictions of planet-disk interaction models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Aaron Boley , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Neal Turner

We propose a new, more realistic, description of the perturbed gravitational potential of spiral galaxies, with spiral arms having Gaussian-shaped groove profiles. We investigate the stable stellar orbits in galactic disks, using the new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 T. C. Junqueira , J. R. D. Lépine , C. A. S. Braga , D. A. Barros

We investigate the kinematic signatures induced by spiral and bar structure in a set of simulations of Milky Way-sized spiral disc galaxies. The set includes test particle simulations that follow a quasi-stationary density wave-like…

We test whether the spiral patterns apparent in many large disk galaxies should be thought of as dynamical features that are stationary in a co-rotating frame for > t_{dyn}, as implied by the density wave approach for explaining spiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kelly Foyle , Hans-Walter Rix , Clare Dobbs , Adam Leroy , Fabian Walter

Context. Regularly-spaced, star-forming regions along the spiral arms of nearby galaxies provide insight into the early stages and initial conditions of star formation. The regular separation of these star-forming regions suggests spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-24 Raghav Arora , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Bastian Körtgen

In this paper we discuss the influence of gravitational instabilities in massive protostellar discs on the dynamics of dust grains. Starting from a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation, we have computed the evolution of the dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Giovanni Dipierro , Paola Pinilla , Giuseppe Lodato , Leonardo Testi

We present hydrodynamical models of the grand design spiral M51 (NGC 5194), and its interaction with its companion NGC 5195. Despite the simplicity of our models, our simulations capture the present day spiral structure of M51 remarkably…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 C. L. Dobbs , C. Theis , J. E Pringle , M. R. Bate