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Bars in galaxies may develop through a global instability or due to an interaction with another system. We study bar formation in disky dwarf galaxies orbiting a Milky Way-like galaxy. We employ $N$-body simulations to study the impact of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula

Bars in galaxies may form not only through instability, but also as a result of an interaction with another galaxy. In particular, they may appear in disky dwarf galaxies interacting with Milky Way-like galaxies. Here we report the results…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-29 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Łokas , E. Athanassoula

Using N-body simulations we study the formation and evolution of tidally induced bars in disky galaxies in clusters. Our progenitor is a massive, late-type galaxy similar to the Milky Way, composed of an exponential disk and an NFW dark…

Orbits are the key building blocks of any density distribution and their study helps us understand the kinematical structure and the evolution of galaxies. Here we investigate orbits in a tidally induced bar of a dwarf galaxy, using an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-21 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula

We conduct high-resolution collisionless N-body simulations to investigate the tidal evolution of dwarf galaxies on an eccentric orbit in the Milky Way (MW) potential. The dwarfs originally consist of a low surface brightness stellar disk…

We investigate the formation of stellar bars in 307 Milky Way-mass disc galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Most bars form rapidly in dynamically cold discs shortly after the central stellar mass exceeds that of dark matter. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie

Using numerical analysis of fundamental frequencies we study the orbital structure of a tidally induced bar formed in a simulated dwarf galaxy orbiting a Milky Way-like host. We find that only about 10% of stars have frequencies compatible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-16 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula

Most of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group were probably formed via environmental processes like the tidal interaction with the Milky Way. We study this process via N-body simulations of dwarf galaxies evolving on seven different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Lucio Mayer , Simone Callegari

Bar structures can form internally due to the instability of their host galaxies or externally due to perturbations from other galaxies. We systematically quantify the growth timescales ($\tau_\mathrm{bar}$) of bars formed through these two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Yirui Zheng , Juntai Shen , Xufen Wu , Bin-Hui Chen

We present a phenomenological description of the properties of tidal tails forming around dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. For this purpose we use collisionless N-body simulations of dwarfs initially composed of a disk embedded in an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-12 Ewa L. Lokas , Grzegorz Gajda , Stelios Kazantzidis

One of the scenarios for bar formation in galaxies involves their interaction with a more massive companion. The stellar component is then transformed from a disk into a bar-like prolate spheroid. I investigated a subsample of 77 bar-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Ewa L. Lokas

Galactic bars can form via the internal bar instability or external tidal perturbations by other galaxies. We systematically compare the properties of bars formed through the two mechanisms with a series of controlled $N$-body simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-09 Yirui Zheng , Juntai Shen

Using $N$-body simulations we study the buckling instability in a galactic bar forming in a Milky Way-like galaxy. The galaxy is initially composed of an axisymmetric, exponential stellar disk embedded in a spherical dark matter halo. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Ewa L. Lokas

Strong galactic bars produced in simulations tend to undergo a period of buckling instability that weakens and thickens them and forms a boxy/peanut structure in their central parts. This theoretical prediction has been confirmed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Ewa L. Lokas

Bars in disky galaxies can be formed by interactions with other systems, including those of comparable mass. It has long been established that the effect of such interactions on galaxy morphology depends strongly on the orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Ewa L. Lokas

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

Using N-body simulations we study the tidal evolution of initially disky dwarf galaxies orbiting a Milky Way-like host, a process known to lead to the formation of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We focus on the effect of the orientation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-12 Ewa L. Lokas , Marcin Semczuk , Grzegorz Gajda , Elena D'Onghia

We study the shapes of Milky Way satellites in the context of the tidal stirring scenario for the formation of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The standard procedures used to measure shapes involve smoothing and binning of data and thus may not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ewa L. Lokas , Steven R. Majewski , Stelios Kazantzidis , Lucio Mayer , Jeffrey L. Carlin , David L. Nidever , Leonidas A. Moustakas

We investigate the evolution of two bars formed in fully self-consistent hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies. One galaxy shows higher central mass concentration and has a longer and stronger bar than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-29 Takashi Okamoto , Mari Isoe , Asao Habe

We describe a new phenomenon of `bar damping' that may have played an important role in shaping the Milky Way bar and bulge as well as its spiral structure. We use a collisionless N-body simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy initially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-07 Ewa L. Lokas
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