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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable Galactic gravitational wave (GW) astronomy by individually resolving $ > 10^4$ signals from double white dwarf (DWD) binaries throughout the Milky Way. In this work we assess for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Maite J. C. Wilhelm , Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Elena D'Onghia

We study the shape and kinematics of simulated dwarf galaxy discs in the APOSTLE suite of $\Lambda$CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We find that a large fraction of these gas-rich, star-forming discs show weak bars in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 A. Marasco , K. A. Oman , J. F. Navarro , C. S. Frenk , T. Oosterloo

This paper constructs an analytic form for a triaxial potential that describes the dynamics of a wide variety of astrophysical systems, including the inner portions of dark matter halos, the central regions of galactic bulges, and young…

We present the physical and evolutionary properties of prestellar and protostellar clumps in the Herschel Infrared GALactic plane survey (Hi-GAL) in two large areas centered in the Galactic plane and covering the tips of the long Galactic…

Apparent exponential surface density profiles are nearly universal in galaxy discs across Hubble types, over a wide mass range, and a diversity of gravitational potential forms. Several processes have been found to produce exponential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 Curtis Struck , Bruce G. Elmegreen

We study the clustering properties of barred galaxies using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We compute projected redshift-space two-point cross-correlation functions w_p(r_p) for a sample of nearly 1000 galaxies for which we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cheng Li , Dimitri A. Gadotti , Shude Mao , Guinevere Kauffmann

A substantial fraction of disk galaxies is double-barred. We analyze the dynamical stability of such nested bar systems by means of Liapunov exponents,by fixing a generic model and varying the inner (secondary) bar mass. We show that there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amr El-Zant , Isaac Shlosman

We present an axisymmetric, equilibrium model for late-type galaxies which consists of an exponential disk, a Sersic bulge, and a cuspy dark halo. The model is specified by a phase space distribution function which, in turn, depends on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Lawrence M. Widrow , Brent Pym , John Dubinski

We introduce a new adaptive and fully Bayesian grid-based method to model strong gravitational lenses with extended images. The primary goal of this method is to quantify the level of luminous and dark-mass substructure in massive galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Vegetti , L. V. E. Koopmans

Structural decomposition of galaxies into bulge, disk, and bar components is important to address a number of scientific problems. Measuring bulge, disk, and bar structural parameters will set constraints on the violent and secular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Tim Weinzirl , Shardha Jogee , Fabio D. Barazza

(abridged) By comparing the distribution of dust and gas in the central regions of the Galaxy, we aim to obtain new insights into the properties of the offset dust lanes leading the bar's major axis in the Milky Way. On the one hand, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Marshall , R. Fux , A. C. Robin , C. Reyle

We find that nuclear rings in barred galaxies can be subject to a new type of non-self-gravitational dynamical instability. The instability leads to the formation of gaseous molecular bars with pattern speeds which are substantially slower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Peter Englmaier

Recent studies used TNG50 galaxies to study bar formation, evolution, and properties like length, strength, and pattern speed. In simulations, these are typically derived from particle positions and mass distribution, neglecting stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Gustavo F. Gonçalves , Rubens E. G. Machado , Karín Menéndez-Delmestre , Thiago Bueno-Dalpiaz

Many 3D N-body barred models of the Galaxy extending beyond the Solar circle are realised by self-consistent evolution of various bar unstable axisymmetric models. The COBE/DIRBE K-band map, corrected for extinction, is used to constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-26 R. Fux

The strong time-dependence of the dynamics of galactic bars yields a complex and rapidly evolving distribution of dense gas and star forming regions. Although bars mainly host regions void of any star formation activity, their extremities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Renaud , F. Bournaud , E. Emsellem , O. Agertz , E. Athanassoula , F. Combes , B. Elmegreen , K. Kraljic , F. Motte , R. Teyssier

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the galactic bar on the nature of the orbital motion (chaotic or regular) of globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are subject to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

Galactic archaeologists often assume that integrals of motion (IoMs) such as $L_z$ and $E$ are conserved, so substructure remains frozen in IoM space over many Gyr. However, this is not true in the Milky Way due in part to its rotating bar.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Adam M. Dillamore , Jason L. Sanders

In this study we present a simple model of elliptical galaxies aimed at interpreting the gradients in colours and narrow band indices observed across these systems. Salient features of the model are the gradients in mass density and star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Tantalo , C. Chiosi , A. Bressan , P. Marigo , L. Portinari

The Hubble classification scheme of galaxies is based on blue-light appearance. Atlases reveal the rich variety of responses of the Population I component (the "mask") of gas and dust to the underlying, older, stellar population. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. L. Block , R. Buta , I. Puerari , J. H. Knapen , B. G. Elmegreen , S. Stedman , D. M. Elmegreen

We investigate the evolution of two bars formed in fully self-consistent hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies. One galaxy shows higher central mass concentration and has a longer and stronger bar than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-29 Takashi Okamoto , Mari Isoe , Asao Habe