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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

We investigate the formation of stellar bars in 307 Milky Way-mass disc galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Most bars form rapidly in dynamically cold discs shortly after the central stellar mass exceeds that of dark matter. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie

We use the magnetic-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the evolution of barred massive disc galaxies. Massive spiral galaxies are already present as early as $z=4$, and bar formation takes place already at those early times. The bars…

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…

Bar structures can form internally due to the instability of their host galaxies or externally due to perturbations from other galaxies. We systematically quantify the growth timescales ($\tau_\mathrm{bar}$) of bars formed through these two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Yirui Zheng , Juntai Shen , Xufen Wu , Bin-Hui Chen

We present observational evidence for the inhibition of bar formation in dispersion-dominated (dynamically hot) galaxies by studying the relationship between galactic structure and host galaxy kinematics in a sample of 257 galaxies between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kartik Sheth , Jason Melbourne , Debra Meloy Elmegreen , Bruce G. Elmegreen , E. Athanassoula , Roberto G. Abraham , Ben Weiner

We study the evolution of galactic bars and the link with disk and spheroid formation in a sample of zoom-in cosmological simulations. Our simulation sample focuses on galaxies with present-day stellar masses in the 10^10-10^11 Msun range,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Katarina Kraljic , Frédéric Bournaud , Marie Martig

The presence of a stellar bar in a disc galaxy indicates that the galaxy hosts in its main part a dynamically settled disc and that bar-driven processes are taking place in shaping its evolution. Studying the cosmic evolution of the bar…

Galactic bars can form via the internal bar instability or external tidal perturbations by other galaxies. We systematically compare the properties of bars formed through the two mechanisms with a series of controlled $N$-body simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-09 Yirui Zheng , Juntai Shen

A recent study shows that bars can be induced via interaction of galaxy clusters, but it has been unclear if the bar formation by the interaction between clusters is related to the enhancement of star formation. We study galaxies in 105…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Yongmin Yoon , Myungshin Im

This work examines the evolution of bar formation in disk galaxies over the last 6 giga-years by analyzing the barred galaxy fraction as a function of key structural parameters. A representative sample of local and distant field galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 M. A. Chacón

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 explore how the physical properties of disc galaxies relate to the presence of bars using data from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. By combining internal kinematical properties and environmental diagnostics, we find that barred galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-25 Erik Aquino-Ortíz , Bernardo Cervantes-Sodi , Karol Chim-Ramirez

We have analyzed the redshift-dependent fraction of galactic bars over 0.2<z<0.84 in 2,157 luminous face-on spiral galaxies from the COSMOS 2-square degree field. Our sample is an order of magnitude larger than that used in any previous…

We discuss the evolution of a disc galaxy due to the formation of a bar and, subsequently, a peanut. After the formation stage there is still considerable evolution, albeit slower. In purely stellar cases the pattern speed of the bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Athanassoula

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

The frequency of barred spiral galaxies as a function of redshift contains important information on the gravitational influence of stellar disks in their dark matter halos and also may distinguish between contemporary theories for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 R. G. Abraham , M. R. Merrifield , R. S. Ellis , N. Tanvir , J. Brinchmann

The emergence of a large-scale stellar bar is one of the most striking features in disc galaxies. By means of state-of-the-art cosmological zoom-in simulations, we study the formation and evolution of bars in Milky Way-like galaxies in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-23 Tommaso Zana , Massimo Dotti , Pedro R. Capelo , Silvia Bonoli , Francesco Haardt , Lucio Mayer , Daniele Spinoso

We study evolution of galactic bars using suite of very high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations of galaxies at z ~ 9-2. Our models were chosen to lie within similar mass DM halos, log(Mvir/Mo) ~ 11.65 +- 0.05, at z=6, 4, and 2, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

Galactic bars are important drivers of galactic evolution, and yet how they impact the interstellar medium and correspondingly star formation, remains unclear. We present simulation results for two barred galaxies with different formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-29 Elizabeth J. Iles , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto