8 papers
Spiral Morphology and Radial Migration: Kinematically heating, cooling, and cold
Kathryne J. Daniel, M. E. Wisz, Karen L. Masters +3
Transient spiral arms are known to drive radial redistribution of stars and thus could play a central role in shaping disk galaxies, including modifying, over time, the age, chemic…
Hot or Cold? Radial Redistribution of Stars in FIRE Simulations of Milky Way-Mass Galaxies and the Asymmetry of Inward versus Outward Migrators
Cecilia Steel, Andrew Wetzel, Rori Kang +3
Stars can radially redistribute (migrate) within galactic disks. The degree to which this occurs as dynamically `cold' (preserves orbital eccentricity) or `hot' (increases eccentri…
Wrinkles in Time. II. Stellar Age Trends in Kinematic Signatures from Transient Spiral Structure
Amy Smock, Kathryne J. Daniel, Rayna Rampalli +4
Spiral arms in the disks of galaxies like the Milky Way can generate kinematic signatures, which appear as ridges or wrinkles in action space. Such signatures have proven difficult…
Understanding the Origin and Dynamical Evolution of the Unique Open Star Cluster Berkeley 20 using FIRE Simulations
Alessa I. Wiggins, Jamie R. Quinn, Micah Oeur +11
Open clusters (OCs) act as key probes that can be leveraged to constrain the formation and evolution of the Milky Way (MW)'s disk, as each has a unique chemical fingerprint and wel…
Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-Alpha Disk Abundances
Carrie Filion, Michael S. Petersen, Danny Horta +3
The Milky Way is home to a thin disk that can be defined via kinematics and/or elemental abundances. The elemental abundance-defined thin disk, also called the low-alpha disk, is g…
Secular Attrition of Classical Bulges by Stellar Bars
Rachel Lee McClure, Tobias Géron, Elena D'Onghia +5
Classical bulges and stellar bars are common features in disk galaxies and serve as key tracers of galactic evolution. Angular momentum exchange at bar resonances drives secular mo…