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Galactic bars drive the internal evolution of spiral galaxies, while their formation is tightly coupled to the properties of their host galaxy and dark matter halo. To explore what drives bar formation in the cosmological context and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Francesca Fragkoudi , Robert Grand , Rüdiger Pakmor , Facundo Gómez , Federico Marinacci , Volker Springel

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

A fraction of dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster contain disk features like bars and spiral arms. Using $N$-body simulations, we investigate the effects of tidal forces on the formation of such disk features in disk dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 SungWon Kwak , Woong-Tae Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Thomas R. Quinn

We investigate the formation and evolution of nested bar systems in disk galaxies in a cosmological setting by following the development of an isolated dark matter (DM) and baryon density perturbation. The disks form within the assembling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Lia Athanassoula

New JWST observations have revealed the presence of a significant number of high-redshift barred galaxies. The origin of these bars remains unclear, and their properties appear difficult to reconcile with the results of cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Ewa L. Lokas

Elongated, bar-like galaxies without a significant disk component, with little rotation support and no gas, often form as a result of tidal interactions with a galaxy cluster, as was recently demonstrated using the IllustrisTNG-100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Ewa L. Lokas

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

The Milky Way as well as a majority of external galaxies possess a thick disc. However, the dynamical role of the (geometrically) thick disc on the bar formation and evolution is not fully understood. Here, we investigate the effect of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Soumavo Ghosh , Francesca Fragkoudi , Paola Di Matteo , Kanak Saha

Stellar bars are a common morphological feature of spiral galaxies. While it is known that they can form in isolation, or be induced tidally, few studies have explored the production of stellar bars in galaxy merging. We look to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Mitchell Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki

We study barred galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological simulation, focusing on tidally induced bars formed from flyby interactions. To guarantee high enough resolution we focus on high mass disc galaxies ($M_*>8.3 \times 10^{10}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-04 Nicolas Peschken , Ewa L. Łokas

We present simulations of the gaseous and stellar material in several different galaxy mass models under the influence of different tidal fly-bys to assess the changes in their bar and spiral morphology. Five different mass models are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Alex R. Pettitt , James W. Wadsley

Double bars make up a significant fraction of barred galaxies. We propose a new formation scenario for double bars that involves tidal interactions. We demonstrate the viability of this scenario using two examples of simulated galaxies from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-02 Marcin Semczuk , Ewa L. Łokas , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres , E. Athanassoula

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

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

A fraction of early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster have a disk component and even possess disk features such as bar, lens, and spiral arms. In this study, we construct 15 galaxy models that resemble VCC856, considered to be an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-17 SungWon Kwak , Woong-Tae Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Suk Kim

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

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

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

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