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Elongated bar-like features are ubiquitous in galaxies, occurring at the centers of approximately two-thirds of spiral disks in the nearby Universe. Due to gravitational interactions between the bar and the other components of galaxies, it…

Recent high-resolution simulations together with theoretical studies of the dynamical evolution of galactic disks have shown that contrary to wide-held beliefs a `live', dynamically responsive, dark halo surrounding a disk does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 B. Fuchs , O. Esquivel

We use high-resolution numerical simulations to follow the barred disk evolution in a suite of models with progressively more massive stellar bulges, with bulge-to-total (disk$+$bulge) mass ratios of $B/T\sim 0-0.25$, embedded in dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Daniel Pfenniger , Clayton Heller

Barred galaxies constitute about two thirds of observed disc galaxies. Bars affect not only the mass distribution of gas and stars, but also that of the dark matter. An elongation of the inner dark matter halo is known as the halo bar. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-28 Daniel A. Marostica , Rubens E. G. Machado , E. Athanassoula , T. Manos

We use high resolution numerical simulations in order to analyze the stellar bar evolution in spinning dark matter (DM) halos. Previous works have shown that the halo spin has a substantial effect on the bar evolution and can lead to bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller , Daniel Pfenniger

We investigate the connection between the vertical structure of stellar discs and the formation of bars using high-resolution simulations of galaxies in isolation and in the cosmological context. In particular, we simulate a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Jacob S. Bauer , Lawrence M. Widrow

We perform several high resolution N-Body/SPH simulations of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) embedded in cold dark matter halos to study how likely is bar formation in such systems. The behavior of various collisionless galaxy models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley

We use $N$-body simulations to investigate the distinct bar formation processes in disks residing in halos of various concentrations. In a highly concentrated halo, the bar development is limited by the dominant multi-arm modes as a result…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 T. Worrakitpoonpon

We examine the global stability of an exponential stellar disk embedded in a dark matter halo and constrain the mass-to-light ratio of observed disks in the I-band, Y_I. Assuming only that the radial surface density distribution of disks is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Syer , Shude Mao , H. J. Mo

Many barred galaxies, possibly including the Milky Way, have cusps in the centres. There is a widespread belief, however, that usual bar instability taking place in bulgeless galaxy models is impossible for the cuspy models, because of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-07 E. V. Polyachenko , P. Berczik , A. Just

Isolated barred galaxies evolve by redistributing their internal angular momentum, which is emitted mainly at the inner disc resonances and absorbed mainly at the resonances in the outer disc and the halo. This causes the bar to grow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

We investigate the stability of trajectories in barred galaxies with mildly triaxial halos by means of Liapunov exponents. This method is perfectly suitable for time-dependent 3D potentials where surfaces of sections and other simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Amr El-Zant , Isaac Shlosman

The saturation conditions for bending modes in inhomogeneous thin stellar disks that follow from an analysis of the dispersion relation are compared with those derived from $N$-body simulations. In the central regions of inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Ya. Sotnikova , S. A. Rodionov

We use fully self-consistent N-body simulations of barred galaxies to show that dynamical friction from a dense dark matter halo dramatically slows the rotation rate of bars. Our result supports previous theoretical predictions for a bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

The time evolution of barred structures is examined under the influence of the external forces exerted by a spherical halo and by prolate halos. In particular, galaxy disks are placed in the plane including the major axis of prolate halos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Ideta , Shunsuke Hozumi

We investigate the gravitational interactions between live stellar disks and their dark matter halos, using LCDM haloes similar in mass to that of the Milky Way taken from the Aquarius Project. We introduce the stellar disks by first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jackson DeBuhr , Chung-Pei Ma , Simon D. M. White

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 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

Bars and spiral arms have played an important role as constraints on the dynamics and on the distribution of dark matter in the optical parts of disk galaxies. Dynamics linked to the dissipative nature of gas, and its transformation into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Daniel Pfenniger , Yves Revaz

The majority of disk galaxies manifest spirals and/or bars that are believed to result from dynamical instabilities. However, some galaxies have featureless disks, which are therefore inferred to be dynamically stable. Yet despite many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 J A Sellwood , R G Carlberg