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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

There is no doubt that the Milky Way is a barred galaxy; however, factors that establish its prominent morphology remain largely elusive and poorly comprehended. In this work, we attempt to constrain the history of the MW by tracing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Sergey Khoperskov , Ivan Minchev , Matthias Steinmetz , Bridget Ratcliffe , Jakob C. Walcher , Noam Libeskind

We present a novel interpretation of the previously puzzling different behaviours of stellar populations of the Milky Way's bulge. We first show, by means of pure N-body simulations, that initially co-spatial stellar populations with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-08 Victor P. Debattista , Melissa Ness , Oscar A. Gonzalez , K. Freeman , Manuela Zoccali , Dante Minniti

While bars are commonly observed in disk galaxies, the precise conditions governing their formation remain incompletely understood. To investigate these conditions, we perform a suite of N-body simulations of bulgeless disk galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Dajeong Jang , Woong-Tae Kim , Yun Hee Lee

A significant fraction of local galaxies exhibit stellar bars, non-axisymmetric structures composed of stars, gas, and dust. Identifying key differences between the properties of barred and unbarred galaxies can uncover clues about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Paula D. López , Cecilia Scannapieco , Sofía A. Cora , Ignacio D. Gargiulo

The physical mechanisms responsible for bar formation and destruction in galaxies remain a subject of debate. While we have gained valuable insight into how bars form and evolve from isolated idealized simulations, in the cosmological…

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

The problem of how some disk galaxies avoid forming bars remains unsolved. Many galaxy models having reasonable properties continue to manifest vigorous instabilities that rapidly form strong bars and no widely-accepted idea has yet been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-30 J A Sellwood , R G Carlberg

Simulations and observations of galactic bars suggest they do not commonly evolve into bulges, although it is possible that the earliest bars formed bulges long ago, when galaxies were smaller, denser, and had more gas. The most highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We study the formation of stellar bars using 145 simulations of disc galaxies embedded in live and static dark matter haloes. We use the exponential bar growth timescale, $\tau_{\rm bar}$, to quantify how disc structure and kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow

Several mechanisms of bar formation in stellar galactic disks are considered, including Toomre swing amplification and normal mode approach. On example of the well-known model of Kuzmin--Toomre using N-body simulations it was shown that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Evgeny Polyachenko

Using observational data on the kinematical properties and density distributions of the subsystems of the Milky Way galaxy, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of its disk. The dynamics of the disk is studied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 V. I. Korchagin , S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Khoperskov

Using N-body simulations we study the formation and evolution of tidally induced bars in disky galaxies in clusters. Our progenitor is a massive, late-type galaxy similar to the Milky Way, composed of an exponential disk and an NFW dark…

We run self-consistent simulations of Milky Way-sized, isolated disk galaxies to study formation and evolution of a stellar bar as well as a nuclear ring in the presence of gas. We consider two sets of models with cold or warm disks that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Woo-Young Seo , Woong-Tae Kim , SungWon Kwak , Pei-Ying Hsieh , Cheongho Han , Phil F. Hopkins

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

I discuss results from the COSMOS survey, showing that the fraction of disc galaxies that is barred decreases considerably with look-back time from z ~ 0.2 to z ~ 0.8. This decrease is more important for small mass and low luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-04 E. Athanassoula

In the absence of an interaction, central bars might be the most effective mechanism for radial motions of gas in barred spiral galaxies, which represent two-thirds of disc galaxies. The dynamical effects induced by bars in the first few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-20 O. Cavichia , M. Mollá , R. D. D. Costa , W. J. Maciel

We show that the exponential growth rate of a bar in a stellar disk is substantially greater when the disk is embedded in a live halo than in a rigid one having the same mass distribution. We also find that the vigor of the instability in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 J. A. Sellwood

From this vast subject, I will pick out and review three specific topics, namely the formation and evolution of bars, the formation of bulges, and the evolution during multiple major mergers. Bars form naturally in galactic discs. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Athanassoula

We perform controlled N-body simulations of disc galaxies growing within live dark matter (DM) haloes to present-day galaxies that contain both thin and thick discs. We consider two types of models: a) thick-disc initial conditions to which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Aumer , James Binney