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Disk Warps

Disk Warps is a structural phenomenon in astrophysics wherein the outer regions of a galactic disk deviate from coplanarity with the inner disk, exhibiting a systematic distortion from axial symmetry due to gravitational or dynamical perturbations.

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Galactic Warps

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Heating of galactic disks by mergers

Peter J. Quinn, Lars Hernquist, D. P. Fullagar · The Astrophysical Journal · 1993 · 562 citations

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Self-induced warping of accretion discs

J. E. Pringle · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1996 · 460 citations · Full text

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A planet on an inclined orbit as an explanation of the warp in the β Pictoris disc

D. Mouillet, J. D. Larwood, J. C. B. Papaloizou et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1997 · 325 citations · Full text

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SHADOWS CAST BY A WARP IN THE HD 142527 PROTOPLANETARY DISK

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2015 · 254 citations · Full text

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Dynamics of the Bending of the Galaxy

C. Hunter, Alar Toomre · The Astrophysical Journal · 1969 · 251 citations

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Authors

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  1. CJ
    C. J. Nixon

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 304 citations

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  2. GI
    Gordon I. Ogilvie

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 206 citations

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  3. GL
    Giuseppe Lodato

    University of Milan, Italy

    4 publications · 315 citations

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  4. JE
    J. E. Pringle

    Institute of Astronomy, Russia

    4 publications · 169 citations

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  5. JE
    J. E. Pringle

    Institute of Astronomy, Russia

    3 publications · 570 citations

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Institutions

160

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    34 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Institute of Astronomy

    Moscow, Russia

    12 h-index

    22 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    1.9K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    927 citations

  6. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

    Toronto, Canada

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    284 citations

  7. Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

    Besançon, France

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    710 citations

  8. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    746 citations

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Venues

  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    47 publications · 3.9K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 35 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    8 publications · 435 citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    3 publications · 432 citations

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