Spiral density waves resonantly excited by a rapidly rotating bar

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Galactic Structure, Orbital Resonances (Celestial Mechanics), Rotating Bodies, Spiral Galaxies, Bars, Milky Way Galaxy, Saturn Rings

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Recent observations at millimeter wavelengths have revealed bar-spiral structures in the central regions of several nearby spiral galaxies. Moreover, new infrared data and even COBE data seem to support the idea that there is a bar in the central regions of the Milky Way. All of these new findings have rekindled the interest in bar-driven spirals again. First, the mechanism that is responsible for exciting the spiral density waves near the resonances is reviewed, and then a theory to account for the highly nonlinear behavior of the gas associated with the waves is presented. The new results have again demonstrated that the 3 kpc arm phenomenon can be reproduced by a rapidly rotating bar in the galactic center. Similarly, in terms of the resonance excitation mechanism, the recent high-resolution radio observations of the bar-spiral structure in the central regions of nearby galaxies can be explained.

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