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most citedA slightly oblate dark matter halo revealed by a retrograde precessing Galactic disk warp

16 citations · 29 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The Dependency of Bar Formation Timescale on Disk Mass Fraction, Toomre , and Scale Height

Bin-Hui Chen, Juntai Shen

Bars are one of the most prominent galactic structures. The classical swing-amplification theory can qualitatively describe the spontaneous bar instability of stellar disks. Still,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Revisiting the Radial Metallicity Gradient-Age Relation in the Milky Way's Thin and Thick Disks

Ao Chen, Juntai Shen, Chun Wang +1

Galactic disks typically exhibit a negative radial metallicity gradient, indicating faster enrichment in the inner regions. Recent studies report that this gradient becomes flatter…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Comparison of Bar Formation Mechanisms. II. Does a Tidally Induced Bar Grow Faster Than an Internally Developed Bar?

Yirui Zheng, Juntai Shen, Xufen Wu +1

Bar structures can form internally due to the instability of their host galaxies or externally due to perturbations from other galaxies. We systematically quantify the growth times…

astro-ph.GA2024

Comparison of bar formation mechanisms I: does a tidally-induced bar rotate slower than an internally-induced bar?

Yirui Zheng, Juntai Shen

Galactic bars can form via the internal bar instability or external tidal perturbations by other galaxies. We systematically compare the properties of bars formed through the two m…

astro-ph.GA2024

Dynamical Origin of the Vertical Metallicity Gradient of the Milky Way Bulge

Bin-Hui Chen, Juntai Shen, Zhong Liu

A vertical metallicity gradient in the Milky Way bulge is well-established. Yet, its origin has not been fully understood under the Galactic secular evolution scenario. We construc…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Milky Way bar potential constrained by the kinematics of SiO maser stars in BAaDE Survey

Tian-Ye Xia, Juntai Shen, Zhi Li +5

We introduce a novel method that utilizes the longitude-velocity (l-v) envelope to constrain the Milky Way (MW) bar potential. Previous work (Habing 2016) used the l-v diagram to e…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

A slightly oblate dark matter halo revealed by a retrograde precessing Galactic disk warp

Yang Huang, Qikang Feng, Tigran Khachaturyants +7

The shape of the dark matter (DM) halo is key to understanding the hierarchical formation of the Galaxy. Despite extensive efforts in recent decades, however, its shape remains a m…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Deciphering the Kinematic Substructure of Local Dark Matter with LAMOST K Giants

Hai Zhu, Rui Guo, Juntai Shen +5

Numerical simulations indicate that correlations exist between the velocity distributions of stars and dark matter (DM). We study the local DM velocity distribution based on these…

astro-ph.GA2024

Insight into the Galactic Bulge Chemodynamical Properties from Gaia DR3

Xiaojie Liao, Zhaoyu Li, Iulia Simion +4

We explore the chemodynamical properties of the Galaxy in the azimuthal velocity and metallicity [Fe/H] space using red giant stars from Gaia Data Release 3. The row-normaliz…

astro-ph.GA2023

Bar-driven Gas Dynamics of M31

Zi-Xuan Feng, Zhi Li, Juntai Shen +5

The large-scale gaseous shocks in the bulge of M31 can be naturally explained by a rotating stellar bar. We use gas dynamical models to provide an independent measurement of the ba…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Measuring the Milky Way Vertical Potential with the Phase Snail in a Model Independent Way

Rui Guo, Zhao-Yu Li, Juntai Shen +2

The vertical phase-space spiral (snail) is a direct sign of dis-equilibrium of Milky Way's disc. Nevertheless, the wrapping of the phase snail contains information of the vertical…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Schwarzschild Modeling of Barred S0 Galaxy NGC 4371

Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Ling Zhu, Juntai Shen +15

We apply the barred Schwarzschild method developed by Tahmasebzadeh et al. (2022) to a barred S0 galaxy, NGC 4371, observed by IFU instruments from the TIMER and ATLAS3D projects.…