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We perform several high resolution N-Body/SPH simulations of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) embedded in cold dark matter halos to study how likely is bar formation in such systems. The behavior of various collisionless galaxy models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley

Stellar bars in disk galaxies grow as stars in near circular orbits lose angular momentum to their environments, including their Dark Matter (DM) halo, and transform into elongated bar orbits. This angular momentum exchange during galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 Sioree Ansar , Mousumi Das

Stellar bars are important internal drivers of secular evolution in disk galaxies. Using a sample of nearby spiral galaxies with weak and strong bars, we explore the relationships between the star formation feature and stellar bars in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhi-Min Zhou , Chen Cao , Hong Wu

We present evidence of bar-induced secular evolution in galactic discs using 3.6 ${\mu m}$ images of nearby galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We find that among massive galaxies ($M_{star}/M_{sun}>…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Taehyun Kim , Dimitri A. Gadotti , E. Athanassoula , Albert Bosma , Kartik Sheth , Myung Gyoon Lee

We derive the evolution equations describing a thin axisymmetric disk of gas and stars with an arbitrary rotation curve that is kept in a state of marginal gravitational instability and energy equilibrium due to the balance between energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark R. Krumholz , Andreas Burkert

It is well-established that strong bars rotating in dense halos generally slow down as they lose angular momentum to the halo through dynamical friction. Angular momentum exchanges between the bar and halo particles take place at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

We use high resolution numerical simulations in order to analyze the stellar bar evolution in spinning dark matter (DM) halos. Previous works have shown that the halo spin has a substantial effect on the bar evolution and can lead to bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller , Daniel Pfenniger

Many observed disc galaxies harbour a central bar. In the standard cosmological paradigm, galactic bars should be slowed down by dynamical friction from the dark matter halo. This friction depends on the galaxy's physical properties in a…

Many disc galaxies host galactic bars, which exert time-dependent, non-axisymmetric forces that can alter the orbits of stars. There should be both angle and radius-dependence in the resulting radial rearrangement of stars ('radial mixing')…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Carrie Filion , Rachel L. McClure , Martin D. Weinberg , Elena D'Onghia , Kathryne J. Daniel

We investigate the dynamical effects of an interaction between an initially barred galaxy and a small spherical companion using an N-body/SPH algorithm. In the models described here the small companion passes through the disc of the larger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Berentzen , E. Athanassoula , C. H. Heller , K. J. Fricke

This chapter reviews theoretical work on the stellar dynamics of galaxy disks. All the known collective global instabilities are identified, and their mechanisms described in terms of local wave mechanics. A detailed discussion of warps and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 J. A. Sellwood

The evolution of disk galaxies in modified gravity is studied by using high-resolution N-body simulations. More specifically, we use the weak field limit of two modified gravity theories, i.e., nonlocal gravity (NLG) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-28 Neda Ghafourian , Mahmood Roshan , Shahram Abbassi

In this paper, we use the Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset to study the behavior of bars in disk galaxies as a function of specific star formation rate (SSFR), and bulge prominence. Our sample consists of 13,295 disk galaxies, with an overall (strong)…

Bars drive gas inflow. As the gas flows inwards, shocks and shear occur along the bar dust lanes. Such shocks and shear can affect the star formation and change the gas properties. For four barred galaxies, we present H{\alpha} velocity…

We present a comprehensive investigation into the influence of stellar bars on star formation (SF) in galaxy pairs, using a large sample of low-redshift galaxies ($0.02$\,$<$\,z\,$<$\,$0.08$) from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Woong-Bae G. Zee , Suk-Jin Yoon

The properties of the bars formed by the bar instability are examined for flat stellar discs. The initial mass models chosen are Kuzmin--Toomre discs, for which two types of exact equilibrium distribution function (DF) are employed in order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Shunsuke Hozumi

Disk galaxies evolve over time through processes that may rearrange both the radial mass profile and the metallicity distribution within the disk. This review of such slow changes is largely, though not entirely, restricted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. A. Sellwood

In this work, we explore the nature of $z>1$ galactic bars. Once thought to be highly transient, our results demonstrate otherwise. Our sample consists of nine massive ($>10^{10.5}\,\rm M_{\odot}$) star-forming barred-spiral galaxies at…

Different mechanisms driving bar structure formation indicate that bar origins should be distinguishable in the stellar populations of galaxies. To study how these origins affect different bar morphologies and impact stellar orbits and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Elizabeth J. Iles , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto , Daisuke Kawata

The inner disc of the local group galaxy M33 appears to be in settled rotational balance, and near IR images reveal a mild, large-scale, two-arm spiral pattern with no strong bar. We have constructed N-body models that match all the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 J. A. Sellwood , Juntai Shen , Zhi Li