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A strong bar rotating within a massive halo should lose angular momentum to the halo through dynamical friction, as predicted by Weinberg. We have conducted fully self-consistent, numerical simulations of barred galaxy models with a live…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

We analyse the properties of strongly barred disc galaxies using the TNG100 simulation, a cosmological hydrodynamical realisation of the IllustrisTNG suite. We identify 270 disc galaxies at $z=0$ in the stellar mass range…

A significant fraction of local galaxies exhibit stellar bars, non-axisymmetric structures composed of stars, gas, and dust. Identifying key differences between the properties of barred and unbarred galaxies can uncover clues about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Paula D. López , Cecilia Scannapieco , Sofía A. Cora , Ignacio D. Gargiulo

We investigate the connection between the vertical structure of stellar discs and the formation of bars using high-resolution simulations of galaxies in isolation and in the cosmological context. In particular, we simulate a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Jacob S. Bauer , Lawrence M. Widrow

The IllustrisTNG simulation suite, particularly TNG50, was reported to have generated a notable population of elongated, bar-like structures within galaxies classified as Early-Type Galaxies (ETGs). In this work, we revisit the nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Hangci Du , Yougang Wang , Junqiang Ge

We describe fully self-consistent N-body experiments of barred galaxies with massive halos. A rotating bar is braked through dynamical friction with the halo, which occurs on a short time scale when the central density of the halo is high.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

We study the properties of two bars formed in fully cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies. In one case, the bar formed in a system with disc, bulge and halo components and is relatively strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Cecilia Scannapieco , Evangelia Athanassoula

We present observational evidence for the inhibition of bar formation in dispersion-dominated (dynamically hot) galaxies by studying the relationship between galactic structure and host galaxy kinematics in a sample of 257 galaxies between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kartik Sheth , Jason Melbourne , Debra Meloy Elmegreen , Bruce G. Elmegreen , E. Athanassoula , Roberto G. Abraham , Ben Weiner

We use the magnetic-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the evolution of barred massive disc galaxies. Massive spiral galaxies are already present as early as $z=4$, and bar formation takes place already at those early times. The bars…

Bar formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation remains challenging. It was previously shown that the fraction of barred galaxies at low stellar masses ($M_*<10^{10.5} M_\odot$) in TNG50 is too low compared to observations.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-06 Tahere Kashfi , Mahmood Roshan , Benoit Famaey

The secular evolution of disk galaxies is largely driven by resonances between the orbits of 'particles' (stars or dark matter) and the rotation of non-axisymmetric features (spiral arms or a bar). Such resonances may also explain kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-19 Chris Hamilton , Elizabeth A. Tolman , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vinícius N. Duarte

We study evolution of galactic bars using suite of very high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations of galaxies at z ~ 9-2. Our models were chosen to lie within similar mass DM halos, log(Mvir/Mo) ~ 11.65 +- 0.05, at z=6, 4, and 2, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

Elongated bar-like features are ubiquitous in galaxies, occurring at the centers of approximately two-thirds of spiral disks in the nearby Universe. Due to gravitational interactions between the bar and the other components of galaxies, it…

Galaxy models have long predicted that galactic bars slow down by losing angular momentum to their postulated dark haloes. When the bar slows down, resonance sweeps radially outwards through the galactic disc while growing in volume,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Rimpei Chiba , Ralph Schönrich

We explore the growth and the evolution of the bar instability in stellar-gaseous disks embedded in a suitable dark matter halo evolving in a fully consistent cosmological framework. The aim of this paper is to point out the impact of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Curir , P. Mazzei , G. Murante

We show by numerical simulations that a purely stellar dynamical model composed of an exponential disc, a cuspy bulge, and an NFW halo with parameters relevant to the Milky Way Galaxy is subject to bar formation. Taking into account the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Evgeny Polyachenko , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

This is the third of a series of papers presenting the first attempt to analyze the growth of the bar instability in a consistent cosmological scenario. In the previous two articles we explored the role of the cosmology on stellar disks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

Isolated barred galaxies evolve by redistributing their internal angular momentum, which is emitted mainly at the inner disc resonances and absorbed mainly at the resonances in the outer disc and the halo. This causes the bar to grow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

We study dynamics of bars in models of disk galaxies embeded in realistic dark matter halos. We find that disk thickness plays an important, if not dominant, role in the evolution and structure of the bars. We also make extensive numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Klypin , O. Valenzuela , P. Colin , T. Quinn

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