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Many barred galaxies exhibit upturns (shoulders) in their bar major-axis density profile. Simulation studies have suggested that shoulders are supported by looped $x_1$ orbits, occur in growing bars, and can appear after bar-buckling. We…

We study the flow of gas in a barred-galaxy model, in which a considerable part of the underlying stable periodic orbits have loops where, close to the ends of the bar, several orbital families coexist and chaos dominates. Such conditions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Stavros Pastras , Panos A. Patsis , E. Athanassoula

The dynamical effects on the stellar motion produced by the Galactic central bar and the spiral arms perturbations are investigated separately and compared. The stars from the Gaia DR3 catalog are selected in the region of observable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 Willian Y. Nacafucasaco , Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Douglas Barros , Jacques Lépine

We test the idea that bar pattern speeds decrease with time owing to angular momentum exchange with a dark matter halo. If this process actually occurs, then the locations of the corotation resonance and other resonances should generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Yun Hee Lee , Myeong-Gu Park , Ho Seong Hwang , Hong Bae Ann , Haeun Chung , Taehyun Kim

Most close-in planetary satellites are in synchronous rotation, which is usually the stable end-point of tidal despinning. Saturn's moon Hyperion is a notable exception by having a chaotic rotation. Hyperion's dynamical state is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Matija Ćuk , Seth A. Jacobson , Kevin J. Walsh

Using a variety of parameters of local galaxy density, we have examined the effects of the environmental density on the presence of bar structures in spiral galaxies of various morphological types. For an extensive sample of nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Giuricin , F. Mardirossian , M. Mezzetti , P. Monaco

(Abridge) Bars are very common in the centre of the disc galaxies, and they drive the evolution of their structure. A volume-limited sample of 2106 disc galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 was studied to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. L. Aguerri , J. Mendez-Abreu , E. M. Corsini

Recent progress in the understanding of the role of bars and gravitational instabilities in galaxy disks is reviewed. It has been proposed that bars can produce mass transfer towards the center, and progressively metamorphose late-type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

Studies of the dynamics of globular clusters assume different values of bar parameters (mass, velocity, size) and analyse the results of orbit classifications over the range of the chosen values. It is also a usual thing that a spherical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-05 Anton A. Smirnov , Anisa T. Bajkova , Vadim V. Bobylev

We use perturbation theory and bifurcation theory to analyze the dynamical behavior of resonances, associated to a model describing a particle moving within a ring around a celestial object. The central body is modeled as a homogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Alessandra Celletti , Irene De Blasi , Sara Di Ruzza

We investigate models of the Milky Way disc taking into account simultaneously the bar and a two-armed quasi-static spiral pattern. Away from major resonance overlaps, the mean stellar radial motions in the plane are essentially a linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Christian Boily

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

We investigate possible environmental and morphological trends in the $z\sim0$ bar fraction using two carefully selected samples representative of a low-density environment (the isolated galaxies from the AMIGA sample) and of a dense…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 Lea Giordano , Kim-Vy H. Tran , Ben Moore , Amelie Saintonge

This paper investigates the linear response of a series of spheroidal stellar clusters, the Kuzmin-Kutuzov St\"ackel family, which exhibit a continuous range of flattening and rotation, extending from an isochrone sphere to a Toomre disk.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Kerwann Tep , Christophe Pichon , Michael S Petersen

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

Spiral density wave theory attempts to describe the spiral pattern in spiral galaxies in terms of a long-lived wave structure with a constant pattern speed in order to avoid the winding dilemma. The pattern is consequently a rigidly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Robert J. J. Grand , Daisuke Kawata , Mark Cropper

A rapidly rotating, axisymmetric star can be dynamically unstable to an m=2 "bar" mode that transforms the star from a disk shape to an elongated bar. The fate of such a bar-shaped star is uncertain. Some previous numerical studies indicate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 David Brown

Galaxy morphology has many structures that are suggestive of various processes or stages of secular evolution. Internal perturbations such as bars can drive secular evolution through gravity torques that move gas into the central regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-15 Ronald J. Buta

Both the three-dimensional density of red clump giants and the gas kinematics in the inner Galaxy indicate that the pattern speed of the Galactic bar could be much lower than previously estimated. Here, we show that such slow bar models are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Aurore Duchateau , Thibault Lorscheider , Olivier Bienaymé

Spiral density wave theory attempts to describe the spiral pattern in spiral galaxies in terms of a long-lived wave structure with a constant pattern speed in order to avoid the winding dilemma. The pattern is consequently a rigidly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand , Mark Cropper