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Over half of disk galaxies are barred, yet the mechanisms for bar formation and the life-time of bar buckling remain poorly understood. In simulations, a thin bar undergoes a rapid (<1 Gyr) event called "buckling," during which the inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-16 K. M. Xiang , D. M. Nataf , E. Athanassoula , N. L. Zakamska , K. Rowlands , K. Masters , A. Fraser-McKelvie , N. Drory , K. Kraljic

Clusters can provide propitious environments for bar formation in galaxies. This work studies the formation and evolution of 15 bar-like galaxies in the most massive cluster of the TNG50 simulation from the IllustrisTNG suite. The selection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Ewa L. Lokas

We aim to unravel the interplay between bars, star formation (SF), and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in barred galaxies. To this end, we utilize the SDSS DR12 to select a sample of nearby (0.02 < z < 0.06) disk galaxies that are suitable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Woong-Bae G. Zee , Sanjaya Paudel , Jun-Sung Moon , Suk-Jin Yoon

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

Bars are a key factor in the long-term evolution of spiral galaxies, in their unique role in redistributing angular momentum and transporting gas and stars on large scales. The Eris-suite simulations are cosmological zoom-in, N-body,…

When bars form within galaxy formation simulations in the standard cosmological context, dynamical friction with dark matter (DM) causes them to rotate rather slowly. However, almost all observed galactic bars are fast in terms of the ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-30 Mahmood Roshan , Indranil Banik , Neda Ghafourian , Ingo Thies , Benoit Famaey , Elena Asencio , Pavel Kroupa

Context. Binary systems can be born surrounded by circumbinary discs. The gaseous discs surrounding either of the two stellar companions can have their life extended by the supply of mass arriving from the circumbinary disc. Aims. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Francesco Marzari , Gennaro D'Angelo

Bars in galaxies are mainly supported by particles trapped around stable periodic orbits. These orbits represent oscillatory motion with only one frequency, which is the bar driving frequency, and miss free oscillations. We show that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Witold Maciejewski , E. Athanassoula

By using $N$-body and hydro simulations, we study the formation and evolution of bars in galaxies with significant gas content focusing on the phenomenon of the buckling instability. The galaxies are initially composed of a spherical dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Ewa L. Lokas

The inner disc of the local group galaxy M33 appears to be in settled rotational balance, and near IR images reveal a mild, large-scale, two-arm spiral pattern with no strong bar. We have constructed N-body models that match all the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 J. A. Sellwood , Juntai Shen , Zhi Li

Bars are common in low-redshift disk galaxies, and hence quantifying their influence on their host is of importance to the field of galaxy evolution. We determine the stellar populations and star formation histories of 245 barred galaxies…

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

We analyze the role of bars in the build-up of central mass concentrations in massive, disk galaxies. Our parent sample consists of 3757 face-on disk galaxies with redshifts between 0.01 and 0.05, selected from the seventh Data Release of…

We present a comprehensive investigation into the influence of stellar bars on star formation (SF) in galaxy pairs, using a large sample of low-redshift galaxies ($0.02$\,$<$\,z\,$<$\,$0.08$) from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Woong-Bae G. Zee , Suk-Jin Yoon

Although stellar bars are prevalent in local galaxies, unbarred galaxies constitute a significant fraction, particularly at high redshifts. While some galaxies are unbarred by nature due to stability against the bar instability, several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Yufan Zhou , Zhiyuan Li , Óscar Jiménez-Arranz , Santi Roca-Fàbrega

Bars are an elongated structure that extends from the centre of galaxies, and about one-third of disk galaxies are known to possess bars. These bars are thought to form either through a physical process inherent in galaxies, or through an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Yongmin Yoon , Myungshin Im , Gwang-Ho Lee , Seong-Kook Lee , Gu Lim

The physical processes related to the effect of bar in the quenching of star formation in the region between the nuclear/central sub-kpc region and the ends of the bar (bar-region) of spiral galaxies is not fully understood. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Koshy George , P. Joseph , C. Mondal , S. Subramanian , A. Subramaniam , K. T. Paul

We explore the cosmic evolution of the bar length, strength, and light deficit around the bar for 379 barred galaxies at 0.2 < z $\leq$ 0.835 using F814W images from the COSMOS survey. Our sample covers galaxies with stellar mass 10.0…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Taehyun Kim , E. Athanassoula , Kartik Sheth , Albert Bosma , Myeong-Gu Park , Yun Hee Lee , Hong Bae Ann

Bar structures are present in about half of local disk galaxies and play pivotal roles in secular galaxy evolution. Bars impose a non-axisymmetric perturbation to the rotating disk and transport gas inward to feed central starburst and,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-21 Shuo Huang , Ryohei Kawabe , Hideki Umehata , Kotaro Kohno , Yoichi Tamura , Toshiki Saito

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