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The formation of galactic discs and the efficiency of star formation within them are issues central to our understanding of galaxy formation. We have developed a detailed and versatile model of disc formation which combines the strengths of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. J. Stringer , A. J. Benson

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

The similarity between the distributions of spins for galaxies ($\lambda_{\rm g}$) and for dark-matter haloes ($\lambda_{\rm h}$), indicated both by simulations and observations, is naively interpreted as a one-to-one correlation between…

We investigate the alignment of the spin of dark matter halos relative (i) to the surrounding large-scale filamentary structure, and (ii) to the tidal tensor eigenvectors using the Horizon 4pi dark matter simulation which resolves over 43…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Thierry Sousbie

We examine to what extent the galaxy spin parameter proxy ($\lambda_R$) is affected by bar formation and how it is related to the strong and weak classifications of stellar bars. By creating mock observations of a simulated galaxy, we show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 Robin Joshi , Scott M. Croom , Stefania Barsanti , Elizabeth J. Iles , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Jesse van de Sande

We use the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the relationship between black hole feedback, the presence of stellar bars, and star formation quenching in Milky Way-like disc galaxies. Of our sample of 198 discs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-12 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow , Connor Bottrell , Shy Genel

The bar formation is still an open problem in modern astrophysics. In this paper we present numerical simulation performed with the aim of analyzing the growth of the bar instability inside stellar-gaseous disks, where the star formation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anna Curir , Valentina de Romeri , Giuseppe Murante

We study the stability of trajectories near the disk plane of galaxy models with a triaxial dark matter halo component. We also examine the effect of weak discreteness noise, rapidly rotating bar perturbations and weak dissipation on these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amr El-Zant , Bjoern Hassler

In this review we outline the major points of ab-initio cosmological models focusing on some galaxy evolution unresolved problems. In particular our knowledge of the star formation rate which leads galaxy evolution, i.e. luminosity, colors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Paola Mazzei

Observed scaling relations in galaxies between baryons and dark matter global properties are key to shed light on the process of galaxy formation and on the nature of dark matter. Here, we study the scaling relation between the neutral…

Does the environment of a galaxy directly influence the kinematics of its bar? We present observational evidence that bars in high-density environments exhibit significantly slower rotation rates than bars in low-density environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Natalia Puczek , Tobias Géron , Rebecca J. Smethurst , Chris J. Lintott

In the context of increasing appreciation for the coupling between the Galactic bar and the halo, we introduce a new framework using stars trapped in resonance with the bar to probe the Galactic dark matter subhalo population. Since…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Elliot Y. Davies , Adam M. Dillamore , Vasily Belokurov , Lina Necib

In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos in which they form. The advent of large galaxy surveys as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker

We study the connection between galaxy morphology and host dark matter (DM) halo structure using cosmological simulations. Introducing a new kinematic decomposition scheme, we robustly separate thin and thick discs and measure halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Jinning Liang , Fangzhou Jiang , Houjun Mo , Andrew Benson , Avishai Dekel , Noa Tavron , Philip F. Hopkins , Luis C. Ho

We investigate the formation of multiple spiral modes in Milky Way-like disk-halo systems without explicitly exciting perturbations. We explore how numerical resolution, the level of local disk stability, and the presence of a live halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 SungWon Kwak , Ivan Minchev , Christoph Pfrommer , Matthias Steinmetz , Sukyoung K. Yi

The extreme flatness of stellar discs in superthin galaxies is puzzling and the apparent dearth of these objects in cosmological simulation poses challenging problem to the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Irrespective of mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-04 Kanak Saha

The dark matter halos in $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulations are triaxial and highly flattened. In many cases, these triaxial equilibria are also tumbling slowly, typically about their short axes, with periods of order a Hubble time.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 John Dubinski , Dalia Chakrabarty

The morphology of the outer rings of early-type spiral galaxies is compared to integrations of massless collisionless particles initially in nearly circular orbits. Particles are perturbed by a quadrupolar gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-14 Micaela Bagley , Ivan Minchev , Alice C. Quillen

Evolution of stellar bars in disk galaxies is accompanied by dynamical instabilities and secular changes. Following the vertical buckling instability, the bars are known to weaken dramatically and develop a pronounced boxy/peanut shape when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Inma Martinez-Valpuesta , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

Recent observations of high-redshift galactic disks ($z\approx 1-3$) show a strong negative trend in the dark matter fraction $f_{DM}$ with increasing baryonic surface density. For this to be true, the inner baryons must dominate over dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 J. Bland-Hawthorn , T. Tepper-Garcia , O. Agertz , K. Freeman