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We investigate the influence of the external tidal field of a dark matter halo on the dynamical evolution of star clusters using direct N-body simulations, where we assume that the halo is described by a Navarro, Frenk & White mass profile…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 A. K. Praagman , J. R. Hurley , C. Power

Over the past 10 Gyr, star-forming galaxies have changed dramatically, from clumpy and gas rich, to rather quiescent stellar-dominated disks with specific star formation rates lower by factors of a few tens. We present a general theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John C. Forbes , Mark R. Krumholz , Andreas Burkert , Avishai Dekel

Bars are important in the secular evolution of galaxies. This study is aimed at exploring the reasons why some galaxies have bars at redshift $z=0$ while others do not. We use ellipse fitting to measure the properties and evolution of bars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Shuai Lu , Min Du , P. Victor Debattista

Understanding how galaxies obtain baryons, their stars and gas, over cosmic time is traditionally approached in two different ways - theoretically and observationally. In general, observational approaches to galaxy formation include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Christopher J. Conselice

We investigate the complex interactions between the stellar disc and the dark-matter halo during bar formation and evolution using N-body simulations with fine temporal resolution and optimally chosen spatial resolution. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-17 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

Here we explore the evolution of galaxy ensembles at early times by writing the in situ stellar mass growth of galaxies purely as a stationary stochastic (e.g., quasi-steady state) process. By combining the mathematics of such processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-24 Daniel D. Kelson , Andrew J. Benson , Louis E. Abramson

We study the driving of turbulence in star-froming disc galaxies of different masses at different epochs, using an analytic "bathtub" model. The disc of gas and stars is assumed to be in marginal Toomre instability. Turbulence is assumed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-07 Omri Ginzburg , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Mark R. Krumholz

Galaxy evolution is in transition from an early universe dominated by hierarchical clustering to a future dominated by secular processes. These result from interactions involving collective phenomena such as bars, oval disks, spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 John Kormendy , Mark E. Cornell

[ABRIDGED] Galaxy evolution is shaped by internal and external mechanisms that regulate the baryon cycle and star formation activity. We present a theoretical framework based on the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytic model.…

We implement a numerical model reported in the literature to simulate the evolution of a galaxy composed of four matter components, such as: a dark-matter halo; a rotating disk of stars; a spherical bulge of stars and a ring of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Guillermo Arreaga-Garcia

Bars in galaxies may develop through a global instability or due to an interaction with another system. We study bar formation in disky dwarf galaxies orbiting a Milky Way-like galaxy. We employ $N$-body simulations to study the impact of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula

We investigate how stellar disks sustain their ultrathin structure throughout their evolution. We follow the evolution of ultrathin stellar disks with varying dark matter (DM) halo concentration ($c$) using collisionless $N$-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 K. Aditya , Arunima Banerjee

N-body simulations have shown that a bar in a galaxy can be triggered by two processes: (1) by its own instabilities in the disk, or (2) by interactions with other galaxies. Both mechanisms have been widely studied. However, the literature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-26 D. Valencia-Enríquez , I. Puerari , I. Rodrigues

Using $N$-body simulations we study the buckling instability in a galactic bar forming in a Milky Way-like galaxy. The galaxy is initially composed of an axisymmetric, exponential stellar disk embedded in a spherical dark matter halo. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Ewa L. Lokas

We study the evolution of simulated disk galaxies in the context of a nonlocal theory of gravity. In this theory the appearance of the dark matter problem in cosmology and astrophysics is a manifestation of the nonlocality of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-08 Mahmood Roshan , Sohrab Rahvar

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

Major progress has been made over the last few years in understanding hydrodynamical processes on cosmological scales, in particular how galaxies get their baryons. There is increasing recognition that a large part of the baryons accrete…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Frederic Bournaud

Bar driven secular evolution plays a key role in changing the morphology and kinematics of disk galaxies, leading to the formation of rapidly rotating boxy/peanut bulges. If these disk galaxies also hosted a preexisting classical bulge, how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-20 Kanak Saha , Ortwin Gerhard

We introduce a new model for the structure and evolution of the gas in galactic discs. In the model the gas is in vertical pressure and energy balance. Star formation feedback injects energy and momentum, and non-axisymmetric torques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Mark R. Krumholz , Blakesley Burkhart , John C. Forbes , Roland M. Crocker

We illustrate the formation and evolution of the Milky Way over cosmic time, utilizing a sample of 10 million red giant stars with full chemodynamical information, including metallicities and $\alpha$-abundances from low-resolution Gaia XP…