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This paper claims that the pattern speed of a barred galaxy can be recovered to about 10% accuracy even when the galaxy is viewed exactly face-on, where conventional methods fail.

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A Schwarzschild dynamical model recovers the bar pattern speed of a simulated face-on galaxy to about 10% accuracy using only LOSVD data.

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load-bearing objection Solid mock-data feasibility study: first face-on pattern-speed recovery with Schwarzschild models, but the 10% accuracy rests on known 3D density, not on realistic deprojection. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.29406 v1 pith:MBXZ6FPS submitted 2026-07-31 astro-ph.GA

Recovering pattern speeds of simulated face-on barred galaxies via Schwarzschild modelling

Iliya S. Tikhonenko , Jens Thomas , Roberto P. Saglia This is my paper
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keywords pattern speedSchwarzschild modellingbarred galaxiesface-on galaxiesline-of-sight velocity distributionsfigure rotationN-body simulationstriaxial potentials
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The reading

This paper presents a new orbit-superposition code for constructing dynamical models of barred galaxies with rotating triaxial potentials, and tests it on mock observations built from an N-body simulation of a strongly barred galaxy. The central claim is that the bar's pattern speed is recoverable to roughly 10% accuracy even when the galaxy is seen exactly face-on—a regime where standard methods based on the first velocity moment give no signal. The reason is that changing the pattern speed while holding the bar length fixed redistributes the orbital kinetic energy among radial, azimuthal, and vertical components, and the vertical component leaves a measurable imprint in the full line-of-sight velocity distribution. If correct, this opens face-on bars, which are common in large photometric surveys, to pattern-speed measurement.

Core claim

The authors build a Schwarzschild orbit-superposition code for potentials with figure rotation, using the Jacobi integral as the conserved quantity and including centrifugal and Coriolis forces. Fitting full line-of-sight velocity distributions (LOSVDs) to mock data from an N-body barred galaxy, they recover the pattern speed within 10% at inclination 20 degrees, and also at exactly 0 degrees (face-on) with larger uncertainty (23%). The sensitivity does not come from the mean line-of-sight velocity, which vanishes face-on, but from higher-order LOSVD moments—particularly the velocity dispersion and h4—which trace the vertical velocity distribution. At fixed density, a faster pattern speed mo

What carries the argument

The central object is an orbit library in a rotating triaxial potential, where the pattern speed appears as a free parameter in the Jacobi integral E_J = E - Ω_p L_z and in the centrifugal and Coriolis accelerations. The fitting machinery uses orbital weights that reproduce the luminosity density exactly and match LOSVD histograms through maximum-entropy regularization. The crucial mechanism is the redistribution of kinetic energy among velocity components as the pattern speed changes: because the density is held fixed, the bar length stays constant while corotation moves, altering the box/tube orbital fractions and producing a measurable vertical-velocity signature in the face-on LOSVDs.

Load-bearing premise

The mock models use the exact, smoothed 3D density of the N-body galaxy—no deprojection, known bar orientation, enforced spherical halo and bulge, enforced triaxial disc—so the demonstrated accuracy holds only when the true density is known.

What would settle it

Take the same N-body mock but replace the exact density with a deprojected density whose viewing angles are uncertain (e.g., ±5 degrees in inclination or position angle); if the pattern-speed recovery error grows beyond ~20% or becomes biased, the face-on signal is not robust to realistic density errors. Alternatively, remove the vertical velocity information by fitting only the in-plane velocity moments; if the face-on pattern-speed constraint vanishes, the proposed mechanism is confirmed as the carrier.

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If this is right

  • Pattern speed recovery at ~10% accuracy extends to inclination 20 degrees for mass-to-light ratio, and to ~20% accuracy for dark matter halo mass scaling.
  • Exact face-on pattern speed recovery is possible with ~23% uncertainty, despite the vanishing first moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution.
  • The method reproduces the complex kinematic maps (including higher-order Gauss-Hermite moments) of the N-body bar within the noise level.
  • The recovery is insensitive to the regularization strength once the fit is sufficiently data-driven, as shown across the tested regularization range.
  • This approach complements conventional pattern-speed measurements in the low-inclination regime where slit-based estimates become highly scattered.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the density-to-distribution-function connection in rotating barred discs is as tight as this experiment suggests, pattern speed might be constrained from high-resolution photometry alone, without spectroscopy, for face-on bars in upcoming wide-area surveys.
  • The vertical-velocity signature could serve as a new observable diagnostic for bar dynamics in face-on galaxies, potentially testable by comparing face-on and inclined bars of similar morphology.
  • The recovered pattern speed may become biased once the 3D density must be deprojected from images; testing with realistic deprojection uncertainties would reveal how much of the 10% accuracy survives.
  • The strong correlation between density and distribution function in barred systems implies that the mass-anisotropy degeneracy is less severe than in non-rotating triaxial galaxies, which may simplify future modelling.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents a new Schwarzschild orbit-superposition code for triaxial potentials with figure rotation, based on the SMART code, and tests it on mock data constructed from an N-body simulation of a strongly barred galaxy (BLx). The models fit full LOSVD histograms in Voronoi-binned mock observations at inclinations i=0°, 10°, 20°, and 75°. A three-parameter grid search over pattern speed Ω_p, mass-to-light ratio Υ, and halo scaling s_DM recovers Ω_p and Υ within ~10% and s_DM within ~20% at i=20°, and Ω_p within 10% even at i=0°, despite zero first LOSVD moments. The authors identify the vertical LOSVD moments (σ, h4) as the carriers of the Ω_p information and show that varying Ω_p redistributes intrinsic kinetic energy between radial and vertical components, associated with changing box/tube orbit fractions. They also compare with Tremaine-Weinberg estimates and argue that the dynamical method is more robust at small bar viewing angles.

Significance. If the result holds, this is a significant methodological advance: it is the first demonstration that Schwarzschild modelling with full LOSVDs can recover bar pattern speeds in (nearly) face-on galaxies, a regime where Tremaine-Weinberg fails. The paper's strengths are the extensive mock-testing campaign at four inclinations, the use of full LOSVD histograms rather than only low-order moments, the direct comparison to N-body intrinsic second moments, and the explicit physical mechanism (vertical-velocity redistribution with changing Ω_p). The TW comparison in Appendix A is also a useful calibration. However, the practical reach of the headline face-on claim is currently limited by two issues: the use of the true 3D density with no deprojection and the truth-calibrated choice of regularisation strength. These are the main concerns below.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.1, Eq. (23), Fig. 5] The optimal regularisation strength is chosen by minimising rms_σ between the model and the true N-body intrinsic second velocity moments (Eq. 23), which are not observable in real galaxies. All quoted parameter accuracies (Table 2, Fig. 7, summary items) are evaluated at this truth-calibrated i_α=21. While Table 2 suggests the best-fit parameters are stable over a range of α, the uncertainty estimates in Fig. 6 and the Δχ² threshold in Eq. (25) also rely on ground truth. Please either apply a data-driven criterion (e.g., the AIC_p of Lipka & Thomas mentioned in the text) or demonstrate that the recovery conclusion and error bars are unchanged for all α admissible by such a criterion.
  2. [§3.2.1, §4.2, §5.1] The mock input density is the true, smoothed 3D density: the disc is forced triaxial inside the bar and axisymmetric outside, the bulge and halo are forced spherical, the bar orientation angles are known exactly, and no deprojection is attempted. The face-on result (item ii) is carried by the vertical LOSVD moments (Fig. 12), and a mismatch between the assumed and true 3D geometry could be absorbed by a different orbital superposition, biasing Ω_p. The authors acknowledge this limitation in Section 5.1, but the abstract presents the face-on 10% accuracy without this qualification. Please either add a sensitivity test in which the assumed bar/disc/halo shapes are perturbed (or an approximate deprojection is used) and show that Ω_p recovery is not significantly degraded, or restrict the claim explicitly to the idealized known-density case in the abstract and conclusions.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§3.2.2] The target S/N for vorbin is stated as 450, but it is not clear whether this is per pixel before binning or per final Voronoi bin, nor how it relates to the adopted 3% LOSVD errors. Please clarify.
  2. [Fig. 4] The colour bar and x-axis labels of the main panels appear garbled (repeated numbers). Please provide a legible version; as rendered, the α values cannot be read reliably.
  3. [Appendix A] The phrase 'an exact side-on orientation' is confusing; in context this should presumably be 'an exactly face-on orientation' or 'bar viewing angle of 0°'.
  4. [§4.1] Typo: 'Since the we do not attempt the deprojection' should read 'Since we do not attempt the deprojection'.
  5. [Eq. (21)] The piecewise droplet mass function does not state how the constants A and C are fixed or whether continuity at r=b/2 is enforced. Please specify.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: pattern speed is recovered by an orbit-superposition grid search against an independently measured N-body benchmark, not from the input density or self-citations.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained. The ground-truth pattern speed is fixed externally by patternSpeed.py (Dehnen et al. 2022; Section 3.1: 'We estimate the bar pattern speed in the simulation by the means of patternSpeed.py script (Dehnen et al. 2022) and find it to be equal to 17.7 km/s/kpc'), while the Schwarzschild models treat Omega_p as a free parameter of the effective potential (Eqs. 3-8). The mock LOSVDs are generated from N-body particles (Section 3.2.2) and compared with orbit-superposition predictions through chi^2 (Eq. 13); no equation or fitting step maps the input density or LOSVDs onto Omega_p by construction. The face-on signal is isolated in even LOSVD moments (sigma, h4) of the vertical velocity distribution (Section 5.1, Fig. 12) and is supported by changing orbital fractions (Fig. 13), not by any pre-imposed relation. The acknowledged idealizations - true 3D density without deprojection, exactly known bar orientation, regularization alpha chosen using true intrinsic second moments, and a Delta-chi^2 threshold referenced to true parameters (Sections 3.2.1, 4.1, 5.1) - are validation choices that affect real-galaxy applicability, but they do not make the recovered Omega_p equivalent to an input. Self-citations to Smirnov et al. (2021) and Zakharova et al. (2023, 2024) specify the test model and qualitative kinematic comparisons; they are not load-bearing for the recovery claim.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper's central recovery exercise depends on three fitted physical parameters (Omega_p, Upsilon, s_DM) plus a regularization hyperparameter chosen using ground truth. The largest unmodelled input is the exact 3D density of all mass components; the face-on Omega_p sensitivity is untested under deprojection uncertainty. No circular derivation and no invented physical entities.

free parameters (4)
  • bar pattern speed Omega_p = 19.5 +/- 2 km/s/kpc (best fit; grid 15-24)
    Target recovery parameter in the Section 4.1 grid search; true value 17.7.
  • mass-to-light ratio Upsilon = 1.10 +/- 0.12
    Target recovery parameter; grid 0.8-1.3; true value 1.0.
  • dark matter halo scaling s_DM = 0.80 +/- 0.35
    Target recovery parameter; grid 0.4-1.4; true value 1.0.
  • regularization strength alpha = ~7e-3 (i_alpha=21)
    Hyperparameter chosen by minimising rms_sigma of intrinsic second velocity moments against true N-body values (Section 4.1), i.e. using ground truth.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Constant pattern speed Omega_p
    Section 2.1: 'Assuming a constant pattern speed Omega_p, a barred galaxy can be considered a stationary triaxial system'. The method cannot model radially varying pattern speeds.
  • domain assumption True 3D density and shapes of stellar and dark components are known exactly
    Section 3.2.1 uses the smoothed N-body density with imposed symmetries; Section 4.2 admits 'we implicitly assume these shapes to be known'. This is the load-bearing idealisation for real-galaxy applicability.
  • standard math Jeans' theorem / orbit-superposition representation of the DF
    Section 2.2 solves for orbital weights, assuming any physical distribution function can be represented as a positive weighted sum of orbits.
  • ad hoc to paper Imposed smoothing symmetries (disc triaxial within bar, axisymmetric outside; bulge and halo spherical)
    Section 3.2.1 imposes these symmetries to reduce shot noise; they are not general properties of real galaxies and could bias recovery if applied to real data.
  • domain assumption LOSVD histogram errors set to 3% of the maximum value of each LOSVD
    Section 3.2.2; this synthetic noise model drives the chi^2 and uncertainty estimates and may not match real IFU noise.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Recovering pattern speeds of simulated face-on barred galaxies via Schwarzschild modelling},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/MBXZ6FPS}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2607.29406}
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Stellar bars are a major driving force in the secular evolution of their host galaxies. To better understand the connections between the 3D bar density structure, its orbital composition, stellar populations, and underlying dark matter distribution, it is desirable to construct detailed dynamical models of barred galaxies. However, only a few external barred galaxies have been studied in this way so far. We present a new Schwarzschild orbit superposition code for triaxial potentials with figure rotation and test it extensively using mock data from an N-body simulation of a strongly barred galaxy. We investigate the recovery of model parameters in the nearly face-on case which was not previously considered. In particular, we demonstrate a 10% accuracy of both the pattern speed and mass-to-light ratio and a 20% accuracy for the dark matter halo mass scaling at the inclination 20{\deg}. Surprisingly, we obtain a similarly accurate result for the pattern speed in an exact face-on limit, where conventional methods such as Tremaine-Weinberg are no longer applicable. This result suggests that varying the pattern speed at fixed bar length, corresponding to the transition between slow and fast bars, alters the distribution function in a way that produces a systematic change in the vertical velocity distribution, which can not be compensated by the in-plane velocity components.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.29406 by Iliya S. Tikhonenko, Jens Thomas, Roberto P. Saglia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Face-on (top) and side-on (bottom) projections of the N-body system that we modelled (BLx model, snapshot at 𝑡 = 450). The gray dashed circle on the top plot and the vertical lines on the bottom plot indicate the corotation radius. ρ [M ⊙ k p c − 3 ] 105.0 107.5 1010.0 r [kpc] 10−1 100 101 Mc / Mtotal 10−5 10−4 10−3 10−2 10−1 bulge disc halo total [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Top: radial density profiles of the various 𝑁-body components, separated by colour; bottom: respective cumulative mass profiles, normalized to the total mass of the system. MNRAS 000, 1–16 (2026) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: A tessellation of the FoV, used in the dynamical modelling of the exactly face-on run (𝑖 = 0). For each Voronoi bin, we show the cell boundaries (thin grey lines) and the generators (white dots).The bins which are excluded from the modelling are indicated with the red colour. The white dashed circle corresponds to 𝑟max = 15 kpc, and every Voronoi bin which does not lie entirely within it is excluded from t… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Radial profiles of the intrinsic second-order velocity moments in the cylindrical frame. Dashed: N-body. Coloured lines: Schwarzschild model with true parameters but different regularization strengths (𝛼 indicated below the main panels of the plot). We show the index of each 𝛼 value above the corresponding point, and use these indices (𝑖𝛼) in the following plots instead of log10 𝛼 for convenience. rm s 0.0… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Top: total relative difference in the instrinsic second-order velocity moments (rms𝜎) between the model with true parameters (𝑖 = 20◦ ) and the N-body depending on the regularization strength. The vertical dotted line indicates the location of the rms𝜎 minimum, which for this case corresponds to 𝑖𝛼 = 21. Bottom: the 𝜒 2 of the same model, with horizontal dashed line showing the number of kinematic data poi… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The relative errors of individual free parameters for each regular￾ization strength factor, and their uncertainties, shown with grey bands (I20). The “ghost” lines (in the same colour but with a reduced opacity) are used to show the similar quantity but for a few neighbouring points to the 𝜒 2 minimum in the parameter space. The vertical dotted black line indicates the optimal regularization. i.e. we consi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Marginal parameter distributions for the I20 case. The left column shows 1D 𝜒 2 curves for each fit parameter (𝑠DM, Ω𝑝, Υ) (solid grey line: true parameters; dashed line: number of data points). The right columns illustrate the 2D distributions for the two complementary parameters (orange cross: true parameters; green dots: best-fit values; grey contours: 𝜒 2 < 𝜒min + Δ𝜒 2 0 ). MNRAS 000, 1–16 (2026) [PIT… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Maps of the Gauss-Hermite parameters (𝑉, 𝜎, ℎ3, ℎ4) for inclination 20◦ (I20). Top row: N-body simulation data without noise, second row: noisy mock data fitted by the code, third row: dynamical model at the optimal regularization strength factor (𝑖𝛼 = 21), last row: the residuals of the corresponding parameter of the dynamical model with respect to simulation data. r [kpc] 100.0 100.5 101.0 −10 −5 0 5 10 … view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Profiles of the Gauss-Hermite residuals (Δ𝑉, Δ𝜎, Δℎ3, Δℎ4) with respect to the true N-body values for inclination 20◦ (I20). The shaded error bands indicate the 1𝜎 uncertainties of the GH parameters corresponding to the adopted LOSVD errors for the mock data. The mock data (green crosses) and the best-fit model with optimal regularisation (orange cross) are within the shaded area as expected. At large radi… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The relative errors of parameters for each regularization strength factor and their uncertainties, shown in a similar way to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Face-on and side-on projection of the 3d intrinsic density with Voronoi bin #111 of the I0 mock data set highlighted in green. The library bins, associated with the considered Voronoi bin, are highlighted in orange. code has no information about the radial or the azimuthal component of the velocity during the fit. In Section 4.1 we already showed that the dynamical model recov￾ers the intrinsic kinematic … view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Left column: ℎ4 and 𝜎 of the bin #111 LOSVD for the reduced 2-dimensional model grid (see main text). The colour on the top plot shows the values of the pattern speed corresponding to the points, while on the bottom plot it is used to indicate the mass scaling values. The dashed lines correspond to original 𝑁-body kinematics. Middle and right columns: intrinsic second moments of the grid subset indicated … view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Orbital fractions of box orbits (top) and 𝑧-tube orbits (bottom) inside the Voronoi bin #111 of I0 with changing pattern speed. much stronger constrained than in spheroidal galaxies without figure rotation. These density constraints on the distribution function might be connected to the surprising result that the pattern speed can be recovered even in the face-on case. We plan to investigate the tight￾nes… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: The total second moment radial profile of the intrinsic azimuthal velocity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_14.png] view at source ↗

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