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Understanding the role of galactic scale bars in disk galaxy evolution requires detailed measurements of bar properties across galaxies hosting bars at many redshifts. We present measurements of bar lengths and widths in a sample of 8230…

Based on the colour measurements from a multi-band, multi-component 2D decomposition's of S0 and spiral galaxies using SDSS images, we found that bars are bluer in S0 galaxies compared to the spiral galaxies. Most of the S0s in our sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Sudhanshu Barway , Kanak Saha

Almost two-thirds of disk galaxies in the local universe host bars, which serve as important drivers of secular evolutionary processes. While cosmological simulations are powerful tools to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Dongyao Zhao , Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Jingjing Shi

We use 3.6 $\mu$m imaging from the S$^{4}$G survey to characterize the typical stellar density profiles ($\Sigma_{\ast}$) and bars as a function of fundamental galaxy parameters (e.g. the total stellar mass $M_{\ast}$), providing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Simón Díaz-García , Heikki Salo , Eija Laurikainen

We analyze the role of bars in the build-up of central mass concentrations in massive, disk galaxies. Our parent sample consists of 3757 face-on disk galaxies with redshifts between 0.01 and 0.05, selected from the seventh Data Release of…

We have determined the fraction of barred galaxies in the H-band for a statistically well-defined sample of 186 spirals drawn from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy survey. We find 56% of our sample to be strongly barred at H,…

Most barred galaxies exhibit symmetric structures. However, recent studies have shown that a subset of barred galaxies exhibit lopsided morphologies. To quantify their occurrence and investigate their physical origins, we analyze barred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Junwoo Jung , Minjin Kim , Taehyun Kim

(ABRIDGED) We use high resolution (~0.1") F814W ACS images from the HST ACS Treasury survey of the Coma cluster at z~0.02 to study bars in massive disk galaxies (S0s), and in dwarf galaxies in the Coma core. Our study helps constrain the…

We study the correlation between the fraction of barred spiral galaxies and environmental parameters of galaxies to understand in which environments the bars are more commonly found. For this purpose we apply the Blanton et al. technique to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hector J. Martinez , Hernan Muriel

We analyze the observed properties of nested and single stellar bar systems in disk galaxies. The 112 galaxies in our sample comprise the largest matched Seyfert vs. non-Seyfert sample of nearby galaxies with complete near-infrared or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Seppo Laine , Isaac Shlosman , Johan H. Knapen , Reynier F. Peletier

The distribution of bar strengths in disk galaxies is a fundamental property of the galaxy population that has only begun to be explored. We have applied the bar/spiral separation method of Buta, Block, and Knapen to derive the distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Buta , S. O. Vasylyev , H. Salo , E. Laurikainen

In dense clusters, higher densities at early epochs as well as physical processes, such as ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions become important, and can have direct consequences for the evolution of bars and their host disks. To…

We investigate the bar fraction in galaxy pairs from the SDSS to assess how galaxy interactions affect bar structures. Compared to isolated galaxies, close pairs exhibit a significantly reduced bar fraction at projected separations within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Linlin Li , Shuai Feng , Shiyin Shen , Qi'an Deng , Ying Zu , Wenyuan Cui

In this work, we compare the presence of stellar bars in low and high surface brightness galaxies (LSBs and HSBs, respectively) using the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project. The sample consists of 4,244 disc galaxies at $z=0$…

We present the initial results of a census of 684 barred galaxies in the MaNGA galaxy survey. This large sample contains galaxies with a wide range of physical properties, and we attempt to link bar properties to key observables for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 A. Fraser-McKelvie , M. Merrifield , A. Aragón-Salamanca , K. Masters , the MaNGA Survey Team

Subjective classification of spiral galaxies is not sufficient for studying the effect of bars on their physical characteristics. In reality the problem is to comprehend the complex correlations in a multivariate parametric space.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-13 Prasenjit Banerjee , Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

We review general observational properties of bars in galaxies, and relations between bars, their dynamics, and (circum)nuclear activity. We consider new measurements of bar fractions and of the distribution of bars with host type, bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Johan H. Knapen

Spiral galaxies are common in the local Universe, but their formation, evolution, and interplay with bars remain poorly understood. We use a sample of 391 nearby galaxies from the S$^4$G survey to characterise the winding angle and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-30 Simón Díaz-García , Heikki Salo , Johan H. Knapen , Martín Herrera-Endoqui

We present a comprehensive study of bar structures in the local Universe using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Through isophotal analysis of 232,142 galaxies, we identify bars and classify them into strong and weak categories…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Wenwen Wang , Zhimin Zhou

We measure the bar properties (length, strength, and corotation radius) of a sample of barred low surface brightness (LSBs) galaxies and compare to previous results for both LSBs and high surface brightness galaxy (HSBs) samples. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Wesley Peters , Rachel Kuzio de Naray