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A bulge-disk decomposition is made for 737 spiral and lenticular galaxies drawn from a SDSS galaxy sample for which morphological types are estimated. We carry out the bulge-disk decomposition using the growth curve fitting method. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 N. Oohama , S. Okamura , M. Fukugita , N. Yasuda , O. Nakamura

Disc galaxies show a large morphological diversity with varying contribution of three major structural components; thin discs, thick discs, and central bulges. Dominance of bulges increases with the galaxy mass (Hubble sequence) whereas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 Masafumi Noguchi

Cosmological simulations predict more classical bulges than their observational counterpart in the local Universe. Here, we quantify evolution of the bulges since $z=0.1$ using photometric parameters of nearly 39,000 unbarred disc galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Ankit Kumar , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

We use time-dependent, one-dimensional disc models to investigate the evolution of protostellar discs that form through the collapse of molecular cloud cores and in which the primary transport mechanism is self-gravity. We assume that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. K. M. Rice , J. H. Mayo , P. J. Armitage

The origin of diverse kinematic morphologies observed in low-mass galaxies is unclear. In this study, we investigate the kinematic morphologies of central galaxies with stellar mass $10^{8.5-9.0} M_\odot$ at $z=0$ in the TNG50-1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-04 Guangquan Zeng , Lan Wang , Liang Gao , Hang Yang

Transformation of disks into spheroids via mergers is a well-accepted element of galaxy formation models. However, recent simulations have shown that bulge formation is suppressed in increasingly gas-rich mergers. We investigate the global…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Rachel S. Somerville , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Shardha Jogee , Dusan Keres , Chung-Pei Ma , Brant Robertson , Kyle Stewart

We perform controlled N-Body/SPH simulations of disk galaxy formation by cooling a rotating gaseous mass distribution inside equilibrium cuspy spherical and triaxial dark matter halos. We systematically study the angular momentum transport…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

A self-gravitating, differentially rotating galactic disc under vertical hydrostatic equilibrium is supported by the vertical pressure gradient force against the gravitational collapse. Such discs are known to support various bending modes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-13 Sagar S. Goyary , Kanak Saha , H. Shanjit Singh , Suchira Sarkar

[Abridged] The gas distribution in galaxies is smooth on large scales, but is usually time-dependent and inhomogeneous on smaller scales. The time-dependence originates from processes such as cloud formation, their collisions, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Rain Kipper , Indrek Vurm , Aikaterini Niovi Triantafyllaki , Peeter Tenjes , Elmo Tempel

(Abridged) The violent hierarchical nature of the LCDM cosmology poses serious difficulties for the formation of disk galaxies. To help resolve these issues, we describe a new, merger-driven scenario for the cosmological formation of disk…

The stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) is not only one of the main sources of information we have on the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes, but also an important indicator of the performance of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Alessandro B. Romeo , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

We study the effect of angular momentum on the surface density profiles of disc galaxies, using high resolution simulations of major mergers whose remnants have downbending radial density profiles (type II). As described in the previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-06 N. Peschken , E. Athanassoula , S. A. Rodionov

It was argued in the past that bulges of galaxies cannot be formed through collisionless secular evolution because that would violate constraints on the phase-space density: the phase-space density in bulges is several times larger than in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Avila-Reese , A. Carrillo , O. Valenzuela , A. Klypin

We conduct a systematic study of the angular momentum problem in numerical simulations of disk galaxy formation. We investigate the role of numerical resolution using a semi-cosmological setup which combines an efficient use of the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Franziska Piontek , Matthias Steinmetz

We report results on the formation of disk-like structures in two cosmological hydrodynamical simulations in a hierarchical clustering scenario, sharing the same initial conditions. In the first one, a simple and generic implementation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , P. B. Tissera , A. Saiz

The formation of disk galaxies is one of the most outstanding problems in modern astrophysics and cosmology. We review the progress made by numerical simulations carried out on large parallel supercomputers. Recent progress stems from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Lucio Mayer , Fabio Governato , Tobias Kaufmann

We report the finding of a linear, non-axisymmetric, global instability in gas discs around stars, which may be relevant to other astrophysical discs. It takes the form of an $m=1$ mode that grows in the disc density distribution while the…

Studying coupling between different galactic components is a challenging problem in galactic dynamics. Using basis function expansions (BFEs) and multichannel singular spectrum analysis (mSSA) as a means of dynamical data mining, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Alexander Johnson , Michael S. Petersen , Kathryn V. Johnston , Martin D. Weinberg

The radial profiles of the Hb, Mg, and Fe line-strength indices are presented for a sample of eight spiral galaxies with a low surface-brightness stellar disc and a bulge. The correlations between the central values of the line-strength…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Morelli , E. M. Corsini , A. Pizzella , E. Dalla Bontà , L. Coccato , J. Méndez-Abreu , M. Cesetti

We use our catalogue of structural decomposition measurements for the extended GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (xGASS) to study the role of bulges both along and across the galaxy star-forming main sequence (SFMS). We show that the slope in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Robin H. W. Cook , Luca Cortese , Barbara Catinella , Aaron S. G. Robotham