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Although nearly one-third of barred galaxies host an inner, secondary bar, the formation and evolution of double barred galaxies remain unclear. We show here an example model of a galaxy, dominated by a live dark matter halo, in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kanak Saha , Witold Maciejewski

We explore the growth and the evolution of the bar instability in stellar-gaseous disks embedded in a suitable dark matter halo evolving in a fully consistent cosmological framework. The aim of this paper is to point out the impact of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Curir , P. Mazzei , G. Murante

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

A significant fraction of local galaxies exhibit stellar bars, non-axisymmetric structures composed of stars, gas, and dust. Identifying key differences between the properties of barred and unbarred galaxies can uncover clues about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Paula D. López , Cecilia Scannapieco , Sofía A. Cora , Ignacio D. Gargiulo

The pattern speed with which galactic bars rotate is intimately linked to the amount of dark matter in the inner regions of their host galaxies. In particular, dark matter haloes act to slow down bars via torques exerted through dynamical…

We present the first attempt to analyse the growth of the bar instability in stellar-gaseous disks evolving in a fully consistent cosmological scenario. We explored the role of the cosmology on pure stellar disks with different mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

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

We employ high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations to analyze the emerging morphology of galaxies in dark matter halos at redshifts z > 2. We choose DM halos of similar masses of log (Mvir/Mo) ~11.65 +- 0.05 at the target redshifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

We study dynamics of bars in models of disk galaxies embeded in realistic dark matter halos. We find that disk thickness plays an important, if not dominant, role in the evolution and structure of the bars. We also make extensive numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Klypin , O. Valenzuela , P. Colin , T. Quinn

We perform controlled N-body simulations of disc galaxies growing within live dark matter (DM) haloes to present-day galaxies that contain both thin and thick discs. We consider two types of models: a) thick-disc initial conditions to which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Aumer , James Binney

We investigate the gravitational interactions between live stellar disks and their dark matter halos, using LCDM haloes similar in mass to that of the Milky Way taken from the Aquarius Project. We introduce the stellar disks by first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jackson DeBuhr , Chung-Pei Ma , Simon D. M. White

We study the shape and kinematics of simulated dwarf galaxy discs in the APOSTLE suite of $\Lambda$CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We find that a large fraction of these gas-rich, star-forming discs show weak bars in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 A. Marasco , K. A. Oman , J. F. Navarro , C. S. Frenk , T. Oosterloo

Cosmological simulations show that dark matter halos surrounding baryonic disks have a wide range of angular momenta, measured by the spin parameter ($\lambda$). In this study, we bring out the importance of inner angular momentum($<$30…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Juntai Shen

We investigate the formation and evolution of nested bar systems in disk galaxies in a cosmological setting by following the development of an isolated dark matter (DM) and baryon density perturbation. The disks form within the assembling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Lia Athanassoula

We summarize recent developments in the study of the origin of halo spin profiles and preliminary implications on disk formation. The specific angular-momentum distributions within halos in N-body simulations match a universal shape, M(<j)…

Simulations predict that bars in galaxies should slow down over time. This is often attributed to the exchange of angular momentum between the bar and other regions of the galaxy, such as the outer disc and dark matter halo, which implies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Tobias Géron , Kai Zhu , Steph Campbell , Chris Lintott , R. J. Smethurst , Behzad Tahmasebzadeh

The secular evolution of disk galaxies is largely driven by resonances between the orbits of 'particles' (stars or dark matter) and the rotation of non-axisymmetric features (spiral arms or a bar). Such resonances may also explain kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-19 Chris Hamilton , Elizabeth A. Tolman , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vinícius N. Duarte

We present a suite of zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with a prominent disc component and a strong bar in their centre, based on a subsample of barred galaxies from the TNG50 magneto-hydrodynamic simulation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Silvia Bonoli , Ewald Puchwein , Massimo Dotti , Sergio Contreras

This is the third of a series of papers presenting the first attempt to analyze the growth of the bar instability in a consistent cosmological scenario. In the previous two articles we explored the role of the cosmology on stellar disks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

Within the standard hierarchical structure formation scenario, Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes have hundreds of dark matter subhaloes with mass $\gtrsim 10^8 \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$. Over the lifetime of a galactic disc a fraction of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-12 Shaoran Hu , Debora Sijacki