English
Related papers

Related papers: Boxy/peanut bulges : formation, evolution and prop…

200 papers

Bar driven secular evolution plays a key role in changing the morphology and kinematics of disk galaxies, leading to the formation of rapidly rotating boxy/peanut bulges. If these disk galaxies also hosted a preexisting classical bulge, how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-20 Kanak Saha , Ortwin Gerhard

Double bars are thought to be important features for secular evolution in the central regions of galaxies. However, observational evidence about their origin and evolution is still scarce. We report on the discovery of the first Box-Peanut…

Boxy/peanut bulges are considered to be part of the same stellar structure as bars and both could be linked through the buckling instability. The Milky Way is our closest example. The goal of this letter is determining if the mass assembly…

The Galactic bulge is now considered to be the inner three-dimensional part of the Milky Way's bar. It has a peanut shape and is characterized by cylindrical rotation. In N-body simulations, box/peanut bulges arise from disks through bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-04 Ortwin Gerhard

Recent observations have discovered the presence of a Box/Peanut or X-shape structure in the Galactic bulge. Such Box/Peanut structures are common in external disc galaxies, and are well-known in N-body simulations where they form following…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Portail , C. Wegg , O. Gerhard

Barred galaxies have interesting morphological features whose presence and properties set constraints on galactic evolution. Here we examine barlenses, i.e. lens-like components whose extent along the bar major axis is shorter than that of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-01 E. Athanassoula , E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , A. Bosma

We present families, and sets of families, of periodic orbits that provide building blocks for boxy and peanut (hereafter b/p) edge-on profiles. We find cases where the b/p profile is confined to the central parts of the model and cases…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Patis , Ch. Skokos , E. Athanassoula

Major-axis long-slit stellar kinematics was obtained for 30 edge-on spiral galaxies, 24 with a boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulge. B/PS bulges are present in >45% of highly inclined systems and much work suggests that they are the edge-on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Chung , M. Bureau

We study the dynamical mechanisms that reinforce the formation of boxy structures in the \textit{inner} regions, roughly in the middle, of bars observed nearly \textit{face-on}. Outer boxiness, at the ends of the bars, is usually associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 P. A. Patsis , M. Katsanikas

Boxy/peanut bulges are believed to originate from galactic discs through secular processes. A little explored question is how this evolution would be modified if the initial disc was assembled around a preexisting classical bulge.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kanak Saha , Ortwin Gerhard

We present a simple resonant Hamiltonian model for the vertical response of a stellar disk to the growth of a bar perturbation. As a bar perturbation grows stars become trapped in vertical Inner Lindblad resonances and are lifted into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Quillen

We investigated the properties of boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges in a sample of 71 galaxies from the Edge-on Galaxies in the Pan-STARRS Survey (EGIPS) and 20 simulated galaxies from Illustris TNG50 using multicomponent photometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Anton Smirnov , Alexander Marchuk , Viktor Zozulia , Natalia Sotnikova , Sergey Savchenko

From this vast subject, I will pick out and review three specific topics, namely the formation and evolution of bars, the formation of bulges, and the evolution during multiple major mergers. Bars form naturally in galactic discs. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Athanassoula

It has been suggested that the boxy and peanut-shaped bulges found in some edge-on galaxies are galactic bars viewed from the side. We investigate this hypothesis by presenting emission-line spectra for a sample of 10 edge-on galaxies that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael R. Merrifield , Konrad Kuijken

The existence of a classical bulge in disk galaxies holds important clue to the assembly history of galaxies. Finding observational evidence of very low mass classical bulges particularly in barred galaxies including our Milky Way, is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Kanak Saha

Strong galactic bars produced in simulations tend to undergo a period of buckling instability that weakens and thickens them and forms a boxy/peanut structure in their central parts. This theoretical prediction has been confirmed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Ewa L. Lokas

We report about the fact that the stellar population that is born in the gas inflowing towards the central regions can be vertically unstable leading to a B/PS feature remarkably bluer that the surrounding bulge. Using new chemodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Wozniak , L. Michel-Dansac

We model the formation of a bar plus box/peanut bulge (BP bulge) component in a Milky Way-like disc galaxy using simulations of isolated multi-component systems that evolve from equilibrium initial conditions. The simulations are designed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-29 N. Deg , Victor P. Debattista , Lawrence Widrow , Stuart Robert Anderson , Oscar A. Gonzalez , Thomas R. Quinn

Present in over 45% of local spirals, boxy and peanut-shaped bulges are generally interpreted as edge-on bars and may represent a key phase in the evolution of bulges. Aiming to test such claims, the kinematic properties of self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bureau , E. Athanassoula

X-structures are often observed in galaxies hosting the so-called B/PS (boxy/peanuts) bulges and are visible from the edge-on view. They are the most notable features of B/PS bulges and appear as four rays protruding from the disk of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Hanna D. Parul , Anton A. Smirnov , Natalia Ya. Sotnikova