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We describe a new class of nonequilibrium quantum many-body phenomena in the form of networks of caustics that dominate the many-body wavefunction in the semiclassical regime following a sudden quench. It includes the light cone-like…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-15 W. Kirkby , Y. Yee , K. Shi , D. H. J. O'Dell

The environmental dependencies of the characteristics of spiral galaxy rotation curves are studied in this work. We use our large, homogeneously collected sample of 510 cluster spiral galaxy rotation curves to test the claim that the shape…

Clusters of galaxies are self-gravitating systems of mass ~10^14-10^15 Msun. They consist of dark matter (~80 %), hot diffuse intracluster plasma (< 20 %) and a small fraction of stars, dust, and cold gas, mostly locked in galaxies. In most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Diaferio , S. Schindler , K. Dolag

We produce a detailed map of the perturbed surface density of neutral hydrogen in the outer Milky Way disk demonstrating that the Galaxy is a non-axisymmetric multi-armed spiral. Spiral structure in the southern half of the Galaxy can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. S. Levine , Leo Blitz , Carl Heiles

We have found that the phase-space of a dark matter particles assembling a galactic halo in cosmological N-body simulations has well defined fine grained structure. Recently accreted particles form distinctive velocity streams with high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Dolag , A. D. Dolgov , I. I. Tkachev

The rate of collision and the relative velocities of the colliding particles in turbulent flows is a crucial part of several natural phenomena, e.g., rain formation in warm clouds and planetesimal formation in a protoplanetary disks. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-23 Akshay Bhatnagar , Vikash Pandey , Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra

We study the orbital structure of a self-consistent N-body equilibrium configuration of a barred galaxy constructed from cosmological initial conditions. The value of its spin parameter L is near the observed value of our Galaxy L=0.22. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-31 N. Voglis , M. Harsoula , G. Contopoulos

We propose a theory to explain the formation of both spirals and rings in barred galaxies using a common dynamical framework. It is based on the orbital motion driven by the unstable equilibrium points of the rotating bar potential. Thus,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Romero-Gomez

Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Hobbs , Sergei Nayakshin

Recent observations have revealed a gallery of substructures in the dust component of nearby protoplanetary discs, including rings, gaps, spiral arms, and lopsided concentrations. One interpretation of these substructures is the existence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

The outer Galaxy presents an optimal setting for investigating molecular clouds and star formation in environments with low metallicity. A total of 72 Galactic edge clouds were surveyed using the CO\,(2--1) line with the IRAM\,30\,m…

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in structure formation of gas-rich high-redshift disc galaxies. In this paper, we revisit the axisymmetric perturbation theory and the resulting growth of structure by taking the realistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-04 Manuel Behrendt , Andreas Burkert , Marc Schartmann

The Gaia map of the Milky Way reveals a pair of triangular features at nearly symmetric locations on opposite sides of the Galactic Center. In this paper we explore the implications of these features assuming they are manifestations of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-10 Sankha S. Chakrabarty , Yaqi Han , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Pierre Sikivie

The shape of a cusped galactic nucleus is constrained by the range of shapes of orbits in its gravitational potential. It is shown for scale-free non-axisymmetric discs that while a plausible elongated density model requires at least some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 HongSheng Zhao , Marcella Carollo , Tim de Zeeuw

Inner regions of barred disk galaxies often include asymmetrical, small-scale central features, some of which are best described as secondary bars. Because orbital timescales in the galaxy center are short, secondary bars are likely to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski , Linda S. Sparke

We present a general formalism for identifying the caustic structure of an evolving mass distribution in an arbitrary dimensional space. For the class of Hamiltonian fluids the identification corresponds to the classification of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Job Feldbrugge , Rien van de Weygaert , Johan Hidding , Joost Feldbrugge

In a galaxy cluster, galaxies are mostly collisionless particles in recent epoches. They resemble collisionless cold dark matter particles in some way. Therefore, the spatial distributions of dark matter and cluster galaxies might be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Qin , Huan-Yuan Shan , Andre Tilquin

Dark stars are compact massive objects, described by Einstein gravitational field equations with matter. The type we consider possesses no event horizon, instead, there is a deep gravitational well with a very strong redshift factor.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Igor Nikitin

It is known that the gravitational collapse of cold dark matter leads to infinite-density caustics that seed the primordial dark-matter halos in the large-scale structure. The development of these caustics begins, generically, as an almost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-25 Cornelius Rampf , Uriel Frisch , Oliver Hahn

NGC 3642 was classified as a spiral galaxy with three rings and no bar. We have performed an HI and optical study of this nearly face-on galaxy. We find that the nuclear ring might in fact be part of an inner one-armed spiral, that could be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Verdes--Montenegro , A. Bosma , E. Athanassoula