Progress in the Study of Galaxies: Structures,Collective Phenomena and Methods |
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Authors: | Fridman AM Khoruzhii OV |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyatnitskaya st. 48, Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | The review contains the important achievements in dynamics of the galactic disks. Among them there are I. New structures
discovered recently: • giant vortices (including giant anticyclone in the Solar vicinity); • slow bar; • inner oscillating
structure within spiral arms similar that of enveloped soliton; • chaotic streamlines in the velocity field of the gaseous
disk of a real galaxy. II. New collective phenomina discovered recently: • new overreflection instability initiating ‘mini-spiral’
in the innermost central parsec of Galaxy; • large-scale convection caused by nonlinear interaction of density wave with
disk gas; • non-kolmogorovian spectrum of weak turbulence corresponding to the observed one in the • Solar vicinity. III. New
methods worked out recently: • reconstruction of full three-dimensional vector field of gas velocity from the observed line-of-
• sight velocity field; • observational test for verification of the wave-nature of the spiral arms; • observational test
to distinguish two types of vertical motions: warp and z-motions in the • density wave; • derivation of correct system of two-dimensional dynamical equations from the initial three-
• dimensional one.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | disk galaxies spiral density waves velocity fields structures and chaos |
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