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In order to address the question of whether spiral disturbances in galaxy discs are gravitationally coupled to the halo, we conduct simulations of idealized models of disc galaxies. We compare growth rates of spiral instabilities in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 J. A. Sellwood

Aims: We want to investigate the growth of bar instability in stellar disks embedded in a suitable dark matter halo evolving in a fully consistent cosmological framework. Methods: We perform seven cosmological simulations to emphasise the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

The well-known bar instability of rotationally-supported disk galaxy models has been studied extensively since its first discovery over half a century ago. We were therefore very surprised to find cases of disks embedded in rigid halos,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-24 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista , R. G. Carlberg

I show that strong bars can grow in galactic discs, even when the latter are immersed in haloes whose mass within the disc radius is comparable to, or larger than, the mass of the disc. I argue that this is due to the response of the halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 E. Athanassoula

We investigate the effects of halo kinematics on the dynamics of stellar discs by simulating the evolution of isolated disc-halo systems from equilibrium initial conditions. Our main results come from four simulations where the initial disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Robin Joshi , Lawrence M. Widrow

We explore the growth and the evolution of the bar instability in stellar-gaseous disks embedded in a suitable dark matter halo evolving in a fully consistent cosmological framework. The aim of this paper is to point out the impact of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Curir , P. Mazzei , G. Murante

We use idealised N-body simulations of equilibrium discs in live and static haloes to study how dark matter co-evolution impacts the assembly of stellar particles into a bar and the halo response. Initial conditions correspond to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-08 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron D. Ludlow

In this paper I argue that, far from necessarily hindering bar formation in disc galaxies, inner haloes may stimulate it. This constitutes a new instability mechanism by which bars can grow. To show this I use a number of N-body simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

We report idealized simulations that mimic the growth of galaxy disks embedded in responsive halos and bulges. The disks manifested an almost overwhelming tendency to form strong bars that we found very difficult to prevent. We found that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Joel C. Berrier , J. A. Sellwood

Recent JWST observations claim the existence of a significant fraction of bars in the kinematically hotter and thicker disk at high redshift Universe. These observations challenge the current understanding of disk stability in galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Sandeep Kumar Kataria

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 model and analyse the secular evolution of stellar bars in spinning dark matter (DM) haloes with the cosmological spin lambda ~ 0 -- 0.09. Using high-resolution stellar and DM numerical simulations, we focus on angular momentum exchange…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Angela Collier , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

We analyze the evolution of stellar bars in galactic disks in mildly triaxial flat-core and cuspy CDM halos. We use tailored simulations of rigid and live halos which include the feedback from disk/bar onto the halo in order to test the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ingo Berentzen , Isaac Shlosman , Shardha Jogee

This is the third of a series of papers presenting the first attempt to analyze the growth of the bar instability in a consistent cosmological scenario. In the previous two articles we explored the role of the cosmology on stellar disks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

We use N-body simulations of bar formation in isolated galaxies to study the effect of bulge mass and bulge concentration on bar formation. Bars are global disk instabilities that evolve by transferring angular momentum from the inner to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-03 Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Mousumi Das

We show by numerical simulations that a purely stellar dynamical model composed of an exponential disc, a cuspy bulge, and an NFW halo with parameters relevant to the Milky Way Galaxy is subject to bar formation. Taking into account the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Evgeny Polyachenko , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

We examine the bar instability in galactic models with an exponential disk and a cuspy dark matter (DM) halo with a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) cosmological density profile. We construct equilibrium models from a 3-integral composite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John Dubinski , Ingo Berentzen , Isaac Shlosman

We study the stellar bar growth in high resolution numerical galaxy models with and without dark matter halos. In all models the galactic disk is exponential and the halos are rigid or live Plummer spheres. More specifically, when there is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Mahmood Roshan

Why do galactic bars rotate with high pattern speeds, when dynamical friction should rapidly couple the bar to the massive, slowly rotating dark halo? This longstanding paradox may be resolved by considering the dynamical interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Tremaine , J. P. Ostriker

A live halo plays an active role in the formation and evolution of bars by participating in the angular momentum redistribution which drives the dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Athanassoula
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