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Bars are fundamental structures in disc galaxies, although their role in galaxy evolution is still not fully known. This study investigates the effect of the presence of bars on the environmental dependence of disc galaxies' properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-12 Pius Privatus , Umananda Dev Goswami

We present a study of bar and host disk evolution in a dense cluster environment, based on a sample of ~800 bright (MV <= -18) galaxies in the Abell 901/2 supercluster at z~0.165. We use HST ACS F606W imaging from the STAGES survey, and…

We present the first study of large-scale bars in clusters at intermediate redshifts (z=0.4-0.8). We compare the properties of the bars and their host galaxies in the clusters with those of a field sample in the same redshift range. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 Fabio D. Barazza , Pascale Jablonka , the EDisCS collaboration

We study the evolution of galactic bars and the link with disk and spheroid formation in a sample of zoom-in cosmological simulations. Our simulation sample focuses on galaxies with present-day stellar masses in the 10^10-10^11 Msun range,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Katarina Kraljic , Frédéric Bournaud , Marie Martig

We investigate the properties of bright (MV <= -18) barred and unbarred disks in the Abell 901/902 cluster system at z~0.165 with the STAGES HST ACS survey. To identify and characterize bars, we use ellipse-fitting. We use visual…

We explore the cosmic evolution of the bar length, strength, and light deficit around the bar for 379 barred galaxies at 0.2 < z $\leq$ 0.835 using F814W images from the COSMOS survey. Our sample covers galaxies with stellar mass 10.0…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Taehyun Kim , E. Athanassoula , Kartik Sheth , Albert Bosma , Myeong-Gu Park , Yun Hee Lee , Hong Bae Ann

We use an information theoretic framework to analyze data from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project and study if there are any statistically significant correlations between the presence of bars in spiral galaxies and their environment. We measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-19 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Snehasish Bhattacharjee

We present a study of the bar fraction in the Coma cluster galaxies based on a sample of $\sim 190$ galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (SDSS-DR6) and observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Mendez-Abreu , R. Sanchez-Janssen , J. A. L. Aguerri

Bars are important in the secular evolution of galaxies. This study is aimed at exploring the reasons why some galaxies have bars at redshift $z=0$ while others do not. We use ellipse fitting to measure the properties and evolution of bars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Shuai Lu , Min Du , P. Victor Debattista

We analyse the relationships between galaxy morphology, colour, environment and stellar mass using data for over 100,000 objects from Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified morphologies yet compiled. We conclusively show that…

Bars are an elongated structure that extends from the centre of galaxies, and about one-third of disk galaxies are known to possess bars. These bars are thought to form either through a physical process inherent in galaxies, or through an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Yongmin Yoon , Myungshin Im , Gwang-Ho Lee , Seong-Kook Lee , Gu Lim

We studied the fraction and properties of bars in a sample of about 3000 galaxies extracted from SDSS-DR5. This represents a volume limited sample with galaxies located between redshift 0.01<z<0.04, absolute magnitude Mr>-20, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-04 J. Méndez-Abreu , J. A. L. Aguerri , E. M. Corsini

Context. Bars are elongated structures developed by a large fraction of disk galaxies in their central few kiloparsecs. However, the bar formation process is still not fully understood, particularly the role played by the galaxy environment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Virginia Cuomo , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Lorenzo Morelli , Nelvy Choque-Challapa , Stefano Zarattini

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 study the clustering properties of barred galaxies using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We compute projected redshift-space two-point cross-correlation functions w_p(r_p) for a sample of nearly 1000 galaxies for which we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cheng Li , Dimitri A. Gadotti , Shude Mao , Guinevere Kauffmann

We present a study of the environment of barred galaxies using a volume-limited sample of over 30,000 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We use four different statistics to quantify the environment: the projected two-point…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Ye Lin , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Cheng Li , Lixin Wang , Enci Wang

We present observational evidence for the inhibition of bar formation in dispersion-dominated (dynamically hot) galaxies by studying the relationship between galactic structure and host galaxy kinematics in a sample of 257 galaxies between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kartik Sheth , Jason Melbourne , Debra Meloy Elmegreen , Bruce G. Elmegreen , E. Athanassoula , Roberto G. Abraham , Ben Weiner

We explore stellar population properties separately in the bulge and the disk of double-component cluster galaxies to shed light on the formation of lenticular galaxies in dense environments. We study eight low-redshift clusters from the…

We have measured the radial light profiles and global shapes of bars using two-dimensional 3.6 $\mu m $ image decompositions for 144 face-on barred galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). The bar surface…

We study evolution of galactic bars using suite of very high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations of galaxies at z ~ 9-2. Our models were chosen to lie within similar mass DM halos, log(Mvir/Mo) ~ 11.65 +- 0.05, at z=6, 4, and 2, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz