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We explore how the physical properties of disc galaxies relate to the presence of bars using data from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. By combining internal kinematical properties and environmental diagnostics, we find that barred galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-25 Erik Aquino-Ortíz , Bernardo Cervantes-Sodi , Karol Chim-Ramirez

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

Many observed disc galaxies harbour a central bar. In the standard cosmological paradigm, galactic bars should be slowed down by dynamical friction from the dark matter halo. This friction depends on the galaxy's physical properties in a…

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…

We present a study of large-scale bars in field and cluster environments out to redshifts of ~0.8 using a final sample of 945 moderately inclined disk galaxies drawn from the EDisCS project. We characterize bars and their host galaxies and…

We show by numerical simulations that a purely stellar dynamical model composed of an exponential disc, a cuspy bulge, and an NFW halo with parameters relevant to the Milky Way Galaxy is subject to bar formation. Taking into account the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Evgeny Polyachenko , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

The physical mechanisms responsible for bar formation and destruction in galaxies remain a subject of debate. While we have gained valuable insight into how bars form and evolve from isolated idealized simulations, in the cosmological…

We follow the formation and evolution of bars in N-body simulations of disc galaxies with gas and/or a triaxial halo. We find that both the relative gas fraction and the halo shape play a major role in the formation and evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Athanassoula , R. E. G. Machado , S. A. Rodionov

Bars drive the dynamical evolution of disk galaxies by redistributing mass and angular momentum, and they are ubiquitous in present-day spirals. Early studies of the Hubble Deep Field reported a dramatic decline in the rest-frame optical…

We use fully self-consistent N-body simulations of barred galaxies to show that dynamical friction from a dense dark matter halo dramatically slows the rotation rate of bars. Our result supports previous theoretical predictions for a bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

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…

The tumbling pattern of a bar is the main parameter characterising its dynamics. From numerical simulations, its evolution since bar formation is tightly linked to the dark halo in which the bar is formed through dynamical friction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Perez , J. A. L. Aguerri , J. Mendez-Abreu

One third of present-day spirals host optically visible strong bars that drive their dynamical evolution. However, the fundamental question of how bars evolve over cosmological times has yet to be addressed, and even the frequency of bars…

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

Bars in disk galaxies slow down as they transfer their angular momentum to their dark matter halo via dynamical friction from near-resonant orbits. This bar-halo dynamical friction can become ineffective once phase mixing erases the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Rumi Kodama , Rimpei Chiba , Tetsuro Asano , Junichi Baba , Michiko Fujii

Stellar bars are a common feature in massive disc galaxies. On a theoretical ground, the response of gas to a bar is generally thought to cause nuclear starbursts and, possibly, AGN activity once the perturbed gas reaches the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Fanali , M. Dotti , D. Fiacconi , F. Haardt

We present a statistical analysis of the connections between galactic bars, star formation, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity using 33,201 disk galaxies (0.01 < z < 0.05) from DESI DR1 cross-matched with Galaxy Zoo DESI. Based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Jianfei Liu , Zhimin Zhou

I discuss results from the COSMOS survey, showing that the fraction of disc galaxies that is barred decreases considerably with look-back time from z ~ 0.2 to z ~ 0.8. This decrease is more important for small mass and low luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-04 E. Athanassoula

We present evidence of bar-induced secular evolution in galactic discs using 3.6 ${\mu m}$ images of nearby galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We find that among massive galaxies ($M_{star}/M_{sun}>…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Taehyun Kim , Dimitri A. Gadotti , E. Athanassoula , Albert Bosma , Kartik Sheth , Myung Gyoon Lee

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