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The non-linear dynamics of bending instability and vertical structure of a galactic stellar disc embedded into a spherical halo are studied with N-body numerical modelling. Development of the bending instability in stellar galactic disc is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Khoperskov , D. Bizyaev , N. Tiurina , M. Butenko

We present a detailed photometric study of a sample of 22 edge-on galaxies with clearly visible X-shaped structures. We propose a novel method to derive geometrical parameters of these features, along with the parameters of their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 S. S. Savchenko , N. Ya. Sotnikova , A. V. Mosenkov , V. P. Reshetnikov , D. V. Bizyaev

We use stellar dynamical bulge/disk/halo simulations to study whether barlenses (lens-like structures embedded in the narrow bar component) are just the face-on counterparts of Boxy/Peanut/X-shapes (B/P/X) seen in edge-on bars, or if some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Heikki Salo , Eija Laurikainen

Stellar bars are the most common non-axisymmetric structures in galaxies and their impact on the evolution of disc galaxies at all cosmological times can be significant. Classical theory predicts that stellar discs are stabilized against…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kanak Saha , Thorsten Naab

This is the third paper in a series in which we attempt to put constraints on the flattening of dark halos in disk galaxies. For this purpose we need to analyse the observed XV diagrams in edge-on galaxies to accurately measure the radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. C. O'Brien , K. C. Freeman , P. C. van der Kruit

We present results of numerical N-body simulations of a galactic stellar disk embedded into a spherical dark halo. The non-linear dynamics of bending instabilities developing in the disk is studied. The bending modes, axisymmetric and not,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Tyurina , A. V. Khoperskov , D. V. Bizyaev

While bars are common in disk galaxies, their formation conditions are not well understood. We use $N$-body simulations to study bar formation and evolution in isolated galaxies consisting of a stellar disk, a classical bulge, and a dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Dajeong Jang , Woong-Tae Kim

Boxy/peanut and X-shaped (BP/X) bulges are prominent features in edge-on disk galaxies and are believed to be vertically thickened bars. Despite their relevance in bar evolution, a statistically robust census of these structures in large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Atul A. Samanta , Ankit Kumar , Mousumi Das , M. Celeste Artale

We investigate the connection between the morphology and internal kinematics of the stellar component of central galaxies with mass $M_\star > {10}^{9.5} {\rm M}_\odot$ in the EAGLE simulations. We compare several kinematic diagnostics…

We present deep B- and R-band surface photometry for a sample of 21 galaxies with morphological types between S0 and Sab. We present radial profiles of surface brightness, colour, ellipticity, position angle and deviations of axisymmetry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noordermeer , J. M. van der Hulst

We analyze the dependence of the stellar disc flatness on the galaxy morphological type using 2D decomposition of galaxies from the reliable subsample of the Edge-on Galaxies in SDSS (EGIS) catalogue. Combining these data with the retrieved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Mosenkov , N. Ya. Sotnikova , V. P. Reshetnikov , D. V. Bizyaev , S. J. Kautsch

We consider a thickness of stellar disks of late-type galaxies by analyzing the R and K_s band photometric profiles for two independent samples of edge-on galaxies. The main goal is to verify a hypotesis that a thickness of old stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Zasov , D. V. Bizyaev , D. I. Makarov , N. V. Tyurina

We estimated the galactic model parameters for a set of 20 intermediate-latitude fields with galactic longitudes 0<l<100 and 160<l<240, included in the currently available Data Release 6 (DR6) of SDSS, to explore their possible variation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Yaz , S. Karaali

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

The properties of galaxies are intricately linked to the characteristics of their host dark-matter haloes. We use a suite of controlled simulations of isolated galaxies to quantify how halo spin, concentration, inner density profile, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 Guangze Sun , Fangzhou Jiang , Jing Wang

We present first results of a program to study the dynamics of undisturbed bulgeless, low surface density disk galaxies in order to probe the underlying structure of dark matter halos. High resolution H-alpha rotation curves are combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Dalcanton , R. A. Bernstein

Observational and numerical studies gave hints that the hot gaseous haloes of ETGs may be sensitive to the galaxy internal kinematics. By using high resolution 2D hydro simulations, and realistic two-component (stars plus dark matter)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-11 Andrea Negri , Luca Ciotti , Silvia Pellegrini

By means of high resolution 2D hydrodynamical simulations, we study the evolution of the hot ISM for a large set of early-type galaxy models, characterized by various degrees of flattening and internal rotation. The galaxies are described…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrea Negri , Silvia Posacki , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

Numerical simulations have shown that the X-shaped structure in the Milky Way bulge can naturally arise from the bar instability and buckling instability. To understand the influence of the buckling amplitude on the morphology of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Zhao-Yu Li , Juntai Shen

We report the alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations. The combination of these state-of-the-art hydro-cosmological simulations enables us to span four orders of…

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