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Galactic rotation curves are crucial for understanding the distribution of mass in galaxies. Despite advances in precision observations, there are discrepancies between the inferred mass from luminosity and the observed rotational…

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For several decades it has been known that stellar bars in disc galaxies can be triggered by interactions, or by internal processes such as dynamical instabilities. In this work, we explore the differences between these two mechanisms using…

High resolution N-body simulations using different codes and initial condition techniques reveal two different behaviours for the rotation frequency of transient spiral arms like structures. Whereas unbarred disks present spiral arms nearly…

Aims: We investigate whether the cylindrical (galactocentric) radial velocity gradient of ~ -3 km/s/kpc, directed radially from the Galactic center and recently observed in the stars of the solar neighborhood with the RAVE survey, can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-01 Giacomo Monari , Amina Helmi , Teresa Antoja , Matthias Steinmetz

The catalog of ringed galaxies was compiled through visual classification of synthetic images from the TNG50 simulation. Galaxies were selected based on specific criteria: a redshift range of $0.01 < z < 0.1$, stellar mass $M_\star >10^9…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-28 Julia Fernandez , Emanuel Sillero , Sol Alonso , Patricia Tissera

Aims: To investigate the characteristics of the bar and inner disk in the collisional ring galaxy Cartwheel. Methods: We used the Integral Field Unit (IFU) observations with Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) of the Very Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-10 Chayan Mondal , Sudhanshu Barway

We examine the idea that dynamical parameters can be estimated by identifying locations in the solar neighbourhood where simulated velocity distributions match the observed local distribution. Here, the dynamical influence of both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dalia Chakrabarty

We have used Spitzer images of a sample of 68 barred spiral galaxies in the local universe to make systematic measurements of bar length and bar strength. We combine these with precise determinations of the corotation radii associated with…

The measured rotation velocity profiles of mature spiral galaxies are successfully described with a gravitational model consisting of a thin axisymmetric disk of finte radius. The disk is assumed uniformly thin but with variable radial mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-06 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

The well-known discrepancy in galactic rotation curves refers to the mismatch between observed rotational velocities and the velocities predicted by baryonic matter. In this study we investigate a potential pattern in the discrepancy, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Tomer Zimmerman , Lev Tal-Or , Roy Gomel

A catalogue of the morphological features for the complete Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G), including 2352 nearby galaxies, is presented. The measurements are made using 3.6 $\mu$m images, largely tracing the old…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 M. Herrera-Endoqui , S. Díaz-García , E. Laurikainen , H. Salo

This paper presents bar strength measurements for a sample of 180 galaxies, based on the H-band images of the Ohio State University Bright Galaxy Survey (Eskridge et al. 2002, ApJS, 143, 73). We use a gravitational bar torque method, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , R. Buta , S. Vasylyev

More than 50 per cent of present-day massive disc galaxies show a rotating stellar bar. Their formation and dynamics have been widely studied both numerically and observationally. Although numerical simulations in the $\Lambda$CDM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-17 Ornela F. Marioni , Mario G. Abadi , Stefan Gottlöber , Gustavo Yepes

We study the kinematics of stellar disc populations within the solar neighbourhood in order to find the imprints of the Galactic bar. We carry out the analysis by developing a numerical resolution of the 2D2V Collisionless Boltzmann…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Olivier Bienaymé

We analyse new integral field spectroscopy of the inner region (central 2.5 kpc) of the spiral galaxy NGC 4321 to study the peculiar kinematics of this region. Fourier analysis of the velocity residuals obtained by subtracting an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Castillo-Morales , J. Jimenez-Vicente , E. Mediavilla , E. Battaner

We try to determine the Galactic structure by comparing the observed and modeled velocities of OB-associations in the 3 kpc solar neighborhood. We made N-body simulations with a rotating stellar bar. The galactic disk in our model includes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Pertti Rautiainen , Anna Mel'nik

We use high resolution collisionless $N$-body simulations to study the secular evolution of disk galaxies and in particular the final properties of disks that suffer a bar and perhaps a bar-buckling instability. Although we find that bars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor P. Debattista , C. Marcella Carollo , Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore

Many observed disc galaxies harbour a central bar. In the standard cosmological paradigm, galactic bars should be slowed down by dynamical friction from the dark matter halo. This friction depends on the galaxy's physical properties in a…

Stellar bars and spiral arms co-exist and co-evolve in most disc galaxies in the local Universe. However, the physical nature of this interaction remains a matter of debate. In this work, we present a set of numerical simulations based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 L. Garma-Oehmichen , L. Martinez-Medina , H. Hernández-Toledo , I. Puerari

Disk galaxies are typically in a stable configuration where matter moves in almost closed circular orbits. However, non-circular motions caused by distortions, warps, lopsidedness, or satellite interactions are common and leave distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Francesco Sylos Labini , Matteo Straccamore , Giordano De Marzo , Sébastien Comerón