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We investigate chemical abundance variations along the sightlines through 13 damped Lya systems (DLA). We introduce a technique designed to identify abundance variations in multiple velocity bins along the sightlines and perform a series of…

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Sub-mm observations of protoplanetary disks now approach the acuity needed to measure the turbulent broadening of molecular lines. These measurements constrain disk angular momentum transport, and furnish evidence of the turbulent…

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We present 3D hydrodynamical simulations of ram pressure stripping of a disc galaxy orbiting in a galaxy cluster. In this paper, we focus on the properties of the galaxies' tails of stripped gas. The galactic wakes show a flaring width,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Roediger , M. Brueggen

We present high resolution ($\approx 8$ \kms) spectra of the QSO Q0201+365 obtained with HIRES, the echelle spectrograph on the 10m W.M. Keck Telescope. Although we identify over $80\%$ of the absorption features and analyze several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jason X. Prochaska , Arthur M. Wolfe

Gravitational interactions between a protoplanetary disk and its embedded planet is one of the formation mechanisms of gaps and rings found in recent ALMA observations. To quantify the gap properties measured in not only surface density but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Han Gyeol Yun , Woong-Tae Kim , Jaehan Bae , Cheongho Han

Theoretical models struggle to reproduce dynamically cold disks with significant rotation-to-dispersion support($V_{\rm{rot}}/\sigma$) observed in star-forming galaxies in the early Universe, at redshift $z>4$. We aim to explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-08 Mahsa Kohandel , Andrea Pallottini , Andrea Ferrara , Anita Zanella , Francesca Rizzo , Stefano Carniani

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism behind accretion in low-mass protostellar disks. Here we present the first analysis of the global structure and evolution of non-ideal MRI-driven T-Tauri disks on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Russell Landry , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Neal J. Turner , Greg Abram

Protoplanetary disks exhibit a vertical gradient in angular momentum, rendering them susceptible to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). The most important condition for the onset of this mechanism is a short timescale of thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

The formation and evolution of galaxies require large reservoirs of cold, neutral gas. The damped Lya systems (DLAs), seen in absorption towards distant quasars and gamma-ray bursts, are predicted to be the dominant reservoirs for this gas.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Jeff Cooke , John O'Meara

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have revealed many dust rings in protoplanetary disks, often interpreted as dust traps at gas pressure bumps. Previous studies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Linhan Yang , Ya-Ping Li , Ruobing Dong , Kiyoaki Doi , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pinghui Huang

Density waves excited by planets embedded in protoplanetary disks play a central role in planetary migration and gap opening processes. We carry out 2D shearing sheet simulations to study the linear regime of wave evolution with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Ruobing Dong , Roman R. Rafikov , James M. Stone , Cristobal Petrovich

Aims: To study the imprints of a rotating bar on the kinematics of stars in the thin and thick disks throughout the Galaxy. Methods: We perform test particle numerical simulations of the thin and thick disks in a 3D Galactic potential that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-25 Giacomo Monari , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi

We investigate the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) using high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a LambdaCDM model. The numerical code used is a modification of GADGET-2 with a self…

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There are few warp kinematic models of the Galaxy able to characterise structure and kinematics. These models are necessary to study the lopsidedness of the warp and the twisting of the line-of-nodes of the stellar warp, already seen in gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Romero-Gómez , C. Mateu , L. Aguilar , F. Figueras , A. Castro-Ginard

We have obtained data for 41 star forming galaxies in the MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD) survey with VLT/MUSE. These data allow us, at high resolution of a few 100 pc, to extract ionized gas kinematics ($V, \sigma$) of the centers of nearby star…

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

We use a 3D radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to investigate the formation and evolution of a young protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core. The simulation covers the first ${\sim}10~{\rm kyr}$ after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

By evaluating angular momentum directions of open cluster (OC) samples across various Galactocentric radii, we assessed their orbital plane inclinations. Our findings reveal that, without considering the local tilt of the Galactic disk near…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Liming Peng , Zhihong He

We present ionized-gas (OIII) and stellar kinematics (velocities and velocity dispersions) for 30 nearly face-on spiral galaxies out to as much as three disk scale lengths (h_R). These data have been derived from PPak IFU spectroscopy…

We explore the origin of the observed Lya and other UV lines from galaxies at z<3.7 by detailed modelling of the spectra. The objects are chosen among those showing a) UV-optical-near-IR lines, b) only UV lines and c) those showing Lya in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-28 M. Contini