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We investigate the evolution of dark matter halo spin alignments with respect to cosmic filaments, exploring how halo mass, proximity to filaments, and major mergers influence their orientation over time. We perform a suite of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 David Tobar , Rory Smith , Antonio Montero-Dorta , Katarina Kraljic , Pablo López

Galaxy formation models typically assume that the size and rotation speed of galaxy disks are largely dictated by the mass, concentration, and spin of their surrounding dark matter haloes. Equally important, however, are the fraction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-06 Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel , Marcel R. Haas , Amina Helmi

During the growth of a cold dark matter halo, the direction of its spin can undergo rapid changes. These could disrupt or even destroy a stellar disc forming in the halo, possibly resulting in the generation of a bulge or spheroid. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-07 Philip E. Bett , Carlos S. Frenk

The time evolution of barred structures is examined under the influence of the external forces exerted by a spherical halo and by prolate halos. In particular, galaxy disks are placed in the plane including the major axis of prolate halos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Ideta , Shunsuke Hozumi

We describe fully self-consistent N-body experiments of barred galaxies with massive halos. A rotating bar is braked through dynamical friction with the halo, which occurs on a short time scale when the central density of the halo is high.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

We construct and evolve families of steady-state models of stellar disks embedded in live DM halos, in order to study the dynamical and secular phases of bar evolution. These models are tested against those published in the literature in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jorge Villa-Vargas , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

We study the formation of stellar bars using 145 simulations of disc galaxies embedded in live and static dark matter haloes. We use the exponential bar growth timescale, $\tau_{\rm bar}$, to quantify how disc structure and kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow

N-body simulations argue that the inner haloes of barred galaxies should not be spherical, nor even axisymmetric, but triaxial. The departure from sphericity is strongest near the centre and decreases outwards; typical axial ratios for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Athanassoula

The dynamic evolution of galactic bars in standard $\Lambda$CDM models is dominated by angular momentum loss to the dark matter haloes via dynamical friction. Traditional approximations to dynamical friction are formulated using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-29 Rimpei Chiba , Ralph Schönrich

We present results concerning the internal structure and kinematics of disk galaxies formed in cosmologically motivated simulations. The calculations include dark matter, gas dynamics, radiative cooling, star formation, supernova feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Steinmetz , Ewald Mueller

The emergence of a large-scale stellar bar is one of the most striking features in disc galaxies. By means of state-of-the-art cosmological zoom-in simulations, we study the formation and evolution of bars in Milky Way-like galaxies in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-23 Tommaso Zana , Massimo Dotti , Pedro R. Capelo , Silvia Bonoli , Francesco Haardt , Lucio Mayer , Daniele Spinoso

Spiral galaxies have most of their stellar mass in a large rotating disk, and only a modest fraction in a central spheroidal bulge. This poses a major challenge for cosmological models of galaxy formation. Galaxies form at the centre of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marie Martig , Frederic Bournaud

Although more than two-thirds of star-forming disk galaxies in the local universe are barred, some galaxies remain un-barred, occupying the upper half of the Hubble tuning fork diagram. Numerical simulations almost always produce bars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Kanak Saha , Bruce Elmegreen

The study presents a theoretical framework for understanding the role of dark matter on the stability of the galactic disc. We model the galaxy as a two-component system consisting of stars and gas in equilibrium with an external dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-18 K. Aditya

Angular momentum redistribution within barred galaxies drives their dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar region and absorbed by resonant material mainly in the outer disc and in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Athanassoula

We study how feedback influences baryon infall onto galaxies using cosmological, zoom-in simulations of haloes with present mass $M_{vir}=6.9\times10^{11} M_{\odot}$ to $1.7\times10^{12} M_{\odot}$. Starting at z=4 from identical initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Hannah Übler , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Michael Aumer , Laura V. Sales , Simon D. M. White

Dark matter (DM) bars that shadow stellar bars have been previously shown to form in idealized simulations of isolated disk galaxies. Here, we show that DM bars commonly occur in barred disk galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-06 Neil Ash , Monica Valluri , Yingtian Chen , Eric F. Bell

We provide an explanation for the reduced dynamical friction on galactic bars in spinning dark matter halos. Earlier work based on linear theory predicted an increase in dynamical friction when dark halos have a net forward rotation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-31 Rimpei Chiba , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

We investigate the dark matter halos of 256 star-forming disc-like galaxies at $z\sim 1$ using the KMOS redshift one spectroscopic survey (KROSS). This sample covers the redshifts $0.6 \leq z \leq 1.04$, effective radii $0.69 \leq R_e…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Gauri Sharma , Paolo Salucci , Glenn van de Ven

This work examines the evolution of bar formation in disk galaxies over the last 6 giga-years by analyzing the barred galaxy fraction as a function of key structural parameters. A representative sample of local and distant field galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 M. A. Chacón