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Present in over 45% of local spirals, boxy and peanut-shaped bulges are generally interpreted as edge-on bars and may represent a key phase in the evolution of bulges. Aiming to test such claims, the kinematic properties of self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bureau , E. Athanassoula

The short-lived buckling instability is responsible for the formation of at least some box/peanut (B/P) shaped bulges, which are observed in most massive, $z=0$, barred galaxies. Nevertheless, it has also been suggested that B/P bulges form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 V. Cuomo , V. P. Debattista , S. Racz , S. R. Anderson , P. Erwin , O. A. Gonzalez , J. W. Powell , E. M. Corsini , L. Morelli , M. A. Norris

We explore the kinematics (both the radial velocity and the proper motion) of the vertical X-shaped feature in the Milky Way with an N-body bar/bulge model. From the solar perspective, the distance distribution of particles is double-peaked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Yujing Qin , Juntai Shen , Zhao-Yu Li , Shude Mao , Martin C. Smith , R. Michael Rich , Andrea Kunder , Chao Liu

Morphological characteristics of the vertically thick inner bar components are studied. At high galaxy inclinations they manifest as Boxy/Peanut/X-shape features, and near to face-on view as barlenses. Using the Spitzer Survey of Stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 E. Laurikainen , H. Salo

We investigated the properties of boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges in a sample of 71 galaxies from the Edge-on Galaxies in the Pan-STARRS Survey (EGIPS) and 20 simulated galaxies from Illustris TNG50 using multicomponent photometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Anton Smirnov , Alexander Marchuk , Viktor Zozulia , Natalia Sotnikova , Sergey Savchenko

We present and discuss the orbital content of a rather unusual rotating barred galaxy model, in which the three-dimensional (3D) family, bifurcating from x1 at the 2:1 vertical resonance with the known "frown-smile" side-on morphology, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Panos Patsis , Mirella Harsoula

Galactic bars and their associated resonances play a significant role in shaping galaxy evolution. Resulting resonance-driven structures, like the vertically extended Boxy/Peanut X-Feature (BPX), then serve as a useful probe of the host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Rachel Lee McClure , Angus Beane , Elena D'Onghia , Carrie Filion , Kathryne J. Daniel

The Milky Way bulge has a boxy/peanut morphology and an X-shaped structure. This X-shape has been revealed by the `split in the red clump' from star counts along the line of sight toward the bulge, measured from photometric surveys. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 Melissa Ness , Dustin Lang

We study the orbital structure in a series of self-consistent $N$-body configurations simulating rotating barred galaxies with spiral and ring structures. We perform frequency analysis in order to measure the angular and the radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-06 Maria Harsoula , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Barred galaxies have interesting morphological features whose presence and properties set constraints on galactic evolution. Here we examine barlenses, i.e. lens-like components whose extent along the bar major axis is shorter than that of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-01 E. Athanassoula , E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , A. Bosma

It has been suggested that the peanut-shaped bulges seen in some edge-on disk galaxies are produced when bars in these galaxies buckle. This paper reviews the modelling which seeks to show how bars buckle, and I present a very simple new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Merrifield

We study the conditions that favour boxiness of isodensities in the face-on views of orbital 3D models for barred galaxies. Using orbital weighted profiles we show that boxiness is in general a composite effect that appears when one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Patsis , Ch Skokos , E. Athanassoula

Recently, many orbital studies in barred galaxy potentials have revealed the existence of orbits which are not trapped around x1 tree orbits, but could be potentially appropriate building blocks for bars. These findings question the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-18 P. A. Patsis , E. Athanassoula

We review the observational evidences concerning the three-dimensional structure of the Galactic bulge. Although the inner few kpc of our Galaxy are normally referred to as {\it the bulge}, all the observations demonstrate that this region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 M. Zoccali , E. Valenti

We present a near-infrared K_n-band photometric study of edge-on galaxies with a box/peanut-shaped `bulge'. The morphology of the galaxies is analysed using unsharp masking and fits to the vertical surface brightness profiles, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Aronica , E. Athanassoula , M. Bureau , A. Bosma , R. -J. Dettmar , D. Vergani , M. Pohlen

The Galactic bulge is now considered to be the inner three-dimensional part of the Milky Way's bar. It has a peanut shape and is characterized by cylindrical rotation. In N-body simulations, box/peanut bulges arise from disks through bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-04 Ortwin Gerhard

The majority of massive disk galaxies, including our own, have stellar bars with vertically thick inner regions -- so-called "boxy/peanut-shaped" (B/P) bulges. The most commonly suggested mechanism for the formation of B/P bulges is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-20 Peter Erwin , Victor P. Debattista

Recent theoretical work has implicated fast bar formation modes and subsequent evolution as the creation mechanism for the observed peanut-shaped bulges in some edge-on disk galaxies. We demonstrate an N-body simulation of a disk undergoing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-30 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

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

Orbits are the key building blocks of any density distribution and their study helps us understand the kinematical structure and the evolution of galaxies. Here we investigate orbits in a tidally induced bar of a dwarf galaxy, using an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-21 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula