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Mass extinction and the structure of the milky way [PDF]

Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2013
We use the most up-to-date Milky Way model and solar orbit data in order to test the hypothesis that the Sun's galactic spiral arm crossings cause mass extinction events on Earth. To do this, we created a new model of the Milky Way's spiral arms
Filipović M.D., Horner J., Crawford E.J., Tothill N.F.H., White G.L.   +4 more
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Spiral-arm instability – II. Magnetic destabilization [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019
Fragmentation of spiral arms can drive the formation of giant clumps and induce intense star formation in disc galaxies. Based on the spiral-arm instability analysis of our Paper I, we present linear perturbation theory of dynamical instability of self-gravitating spiral arms of magnetised gas, focusing on the effect of toroidal magnetic fields. Spiral
Inoue, Shigeki, Yoshida, Naoki
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Triggered star formation in spiral arms [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2006
AbstractWe present preliminary results for six spiral galaxies from a sample of 25, where we have used the method developed by González & Graham (1996) to search for and analyze azimuthal color gradients across spiral arms. The six galaxies analyzed here are NGC 1703 (SBrb), NGC 3001 (SABrsbc), NGC 3059 (SBrsbc), NGC 3513 (SBrsc), NGC 4593 (RSBrsb),
E. E. Martínez-García, R. A. González-Lópezlira, G. Bruzual   +2 more
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Kinematics of the Local Spiral Structure Revealed by Young Stars in Gaia DR3

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023
Using young open clusters and O–B2-type stars in Gaia Data Release 3, we investigate the kinematics of the local spiral structure. In general, the young sources in the outer spiral arms may present larger peculiar motions than those in the inner spiral ...
Dejian Liu, Ye Xu, Chaojie Hao, Shuaibo Bian, Zehao Lin, Yingjie Li, Jingjing Li   +6 more
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Spiral‐Arm Seismic Arrays

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2015
Seismic arrays have many uses for signal enhancement, from surface-wave characterization of the near surface to teleseismic detection in the context of monitoring nuclear tests. Many variants of the geometrical configuration of stations have been used with the objective of maximizing potential resolution of the incoming wavefronts di- rection of ...
Kennett, Brian, Stipcevic, Josip, Gorbatov, Alexei   +2 more
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Simulations of the grand design galaxy M51: a case study for analysing tidally induced spiral structure [PDF]

, 2009
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 well, and even ...
Agertz, Balbus, Bate, Bate, Bate, Bate, Benz, Bertin, Binney, Blitz, Bottema, Buta, Byrd, Byrd, C. L. Dobbs, C. Theis, Chakrabarti, Chamberlin, Corder, Cox, De Avillez, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Donner, Egusa, Elmegreen, Elmegreen, Elmegreen, Elmegreen, Elmegreen, Feitzinger, Gittins, Goldreich, Goldreich, Hernquist, Hitschfeld, J. E. Pringle, Jog, Julian, Jáchym, Kendall, Kim, Koda, Kormendy, Kuijken, La Vigne, Li, Lin, Lin, M. R. Bate, Mark, Martínez-García, Meidt, Merrifield, Monaghan, Oh, Patrikeev, Patsis, Petit, Petsch, Pierce, Press, Price, Price, Price, Price, Price, Rand, Renaud, Roberts, Robertson, Romeo, Rots, Salo, Salo, Schinnerer, Sellwood, Shetty, Shetty, Shetty, Slyz, Sofue, Springel, Springel, Sundelius, Tamburro, Tasker, Tasker, Theis, Theis, Tilanus, Toomre, Toomre, Toomre, Toomre, Toomre, Tosaki, Tully, Vogel, Wada, Wada, Westpfahl, Yáñez, Zaritsky   +107 more
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The dynamics of long-lived spiral arms

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2012
It has been believed that spiral arms in pure stellar disks decay in several galactic rotations due to the heating by the spiral arms. However, it might be caused by a numerical heating.
Wada K., Makino J., Kokubo E., Saitoh T.R., Baba J., Fujii M.S.   +5 more
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Planet-driven Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks. I. Formation Mechanism [PDF]

, 2017
Protoplanetary disk simulations show that a single planet can excite more than one spiral arm, possibly explaining the recent observations of multiple spiral arms in some systems. In this paper, we explain the mechanism by which a planet excites multiple
Bae, Jaehan, Zhu, Zhaohuan
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CHARACTERIZING SPIRAL ARM AND INTERARM STAR FORMATION [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2016
ABSTRACT Interarm star formation contributes significantly to a galaxy’s star formation budget and provides an opportunity to study stellar birthplaces unperturbed by spiral arm dynamics. Using optical integral field spectroscopy of the nearby galaxy NGC 628 with VLT/MUSE, we construct Hα maps including detailed corrections for dust ...
Kreckel, K., Blanc, G. A., Schinnerer, E., Groves, B., Adamo, A., Hughes, A., Meidt, S.   +6 more
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Gas Dynamics in the Milky Way: Second Pattern Speed and Large-Scale Morphology [PDF]

, 2002
We present new gas flow models for the Milky Way inside the solar circle. To this end we use SPH simulations in gravitational potentials determined from the NIR luminosity distribution (including spiral arms) which are based on the COBE/DIRBE maps.
Bissantz, Nicolai, Englmaier, Peter, Gerhard, Ortwin   +2 more
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