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Although at least one quarter of early-type barred galaxies host secondary stellar bars embedded in their large-scale primary counterparts, the dynamics of such double barred galaxies are still not well understood. Recently we reported…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Juntai Shen , Victor P. Debattista

An axially symmetric galactic gravitational model composed of a dense, massive and spherical nucleus with an additional dark matter halo component was used, to distinguish between the regular and chaotic character of orbits of stars that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Nicolaos D. Caranicolas

We determine the character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional plane $(R,z)$ of an axially symmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with a spherical central nucleus. In particular, we try to reveal the influence of the value of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We study the flow of gas in a barred-galaxy model, in which a considerable part of the underlying stable periodic orbits have loops where, close to the ends of the bar, several orbital families coexist and chaos dominates. Such conditions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Stavros Pastras , Panos A. Patsis , E. Athanassoula

The scope of the paper is the theoretical analysis of the time rate in which a dynamical system reaches a stable stationary state or stable oscillations. The method used for the analysis is based on the so-called iterative time profiles,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marek Berezowski , Katarzyna Bizon

Using an N-body+SPH code we have performed numerical simulations to investigate the dynamical effects of an interaction between an initially barred galaxy and a small spherical companion. In the models described here the small companion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Berentzen , C. H. Heller , E. Athanassoula , K. J. Fricke

How do galaxies move relative to one another? While we can examine the motion of dark matter subhalos around their hosts in simulations of structure formation, determining the orbits of satellites around their parent galaxies from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 David Hendel , Kathryn V. Johnston

The oxygen (O/H) and N/O abundance ratios along the bar of 16 barred spiral starburst galaxies are determined using long-slit spectroscopy. The abundance gradients and the spatial distribution of the ionized gas along the bar are used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Considere , R. Coziol , T. Contini , E. Davoust

We investigate the dynamical origin and kinematic signatures of spiral structure in an N-body simulation of an isolated barred galaxy, assessing whether invariant manifold theory provides a consistent dynamical framework to disentangle the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Toni Soler-Terricabras , Mercè Romero-Gómez , Santi Roca-Fàbrega

Most fully developed galaxies have a vivid spiral structure, but the formation and evolution of the spiral structure are still an enigma in astrophysics. In this paper, according to the standard Newtonian gravitational theory and some…

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-16 Ying-Qiu Gu

We use N-body simulations to study the formation of rings in a disc galaxy by the impact of a small spherical companion. Both barred and nonbarred target discs are considered. We discuss the effect of the properties of the target disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Athanassoula , I. Puerari , A. Bosma

We analyze optical and near-infrared data of a sample of 11 barred spiral galaxies, in order to establish a connection between star formation and bar/spiral dynamics. We find that 22 regions located in the bars, and 20 regions in the spiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Eric E. Martínez-García , Rosa A. González-Lópezlira

We study the periodic enhancement of either trailing or leading segments of the resonance elliptical rings in the dynamical model of the Galaxy which reproduces distributions of observed velocities derived from Gaia DR3 (EDR3) data along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-22 A. M. Melnik , E. N. Podzolkova , A. K. Dambis

A three degrees of freedom (3-dof) barred galaxy model composed of a spherically symmetric nucleus, a bar, a flat disc and a spherically symmetric dark matter halo is used for investigating the dynamics of the system. We use colour-coded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-30 Christof Jung , Euaggelos E. Zotos

We study the evolution of satellite debris to establish the most suitable space to identify past merger events. We confirm that the space of orbital frequencies is very promising in this respect. In frequency space individual streams can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Facundo A. Gomez , Amina Helmi

We present simulations of the gaseous and stellar material in several different galaxy mass models under the influence of different tidal fly-bys to assess the changes in their bar and spiral morphology. Five different mass models are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Alex R. Pettitt , James W. Wadsley

We study the conditions that favour boxiness of isodensities in the face-on views of orbital 3D models for barred galaxies. Using orbital weighted profiles we show that boxiness is in general a composite effect that appears when one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Patsis , Ch Skokos , E. Athanassoula

We study the spontaneous generation and evolution of bending waves in $N$-body simulations of two isolated Milky Way-like galaxy models. The models differ by their disc-to-halo mass ratios, and hence by their susceptibility to the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Matthew H. Chequers , Lawrence M. Widrow

Spiral galaxies are observed to exhibit a range of morphologies, in particular in the shape of spiral arms. A key diagnostic parameter is the pitch angle, which describes how tightly wound the spiral arms are. Observationally and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

For the first time, we investigate the resonant structure of $N$-body galactic bar at the stage of buckling using action-angle variables. We studied the evolution of vertical actions ($J_z$) and angles associated with vertical resonance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 Viktor D. Zozulia , Natalia Ya. Sotnikova , Anton A. Smirnov