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Boxy/peanut and X-shaped (BP/X) bulges are prominent features in edge-on disk galaxies and are believed to be vertically thickened bars. Despite their relevance in bar evolution, a statistically robust census of these structures in large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Atul A. Samanta , Ankit Kumar , Mousumi Das , M. Celeste Artale

Warped structures are often observed in disk galaxies, yet their physical origin is still under investigation. We present a systematic study of warped edge-on disk galaxies based on imaging data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Yiheng Wang , Han Qu , Jiafeng Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Enci Wang , Xi Kang

A sample of edge-on spiral galaxies aimed at a study of the main structural and photometric parameters of edge-on galaxies both of early and late types is presented. The data were taken from the 2MASS in the J, H and K_s filters. The sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Mosenkov , N. Ya. Sotnikova , V. P. Reshetnikov

Recent orbital studies of 3D bar structure in various numerical and analytical models show that X-structures that reside in boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges are not delineated by some specific type of orbits, but are natural parts of them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-29 Anton A. Smirnov , Sergey S. Savchenko

Major-axis long-slit stellar kinematics was obtained for 30 edge-on spiral galaxies, 24 with a boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulge. B/PS bulges are present in >45% of highly inclined systems and much work suggests that they are the edge-on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Chung , M. Bureau

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 review the observed morphological, photometric, and kinematic properties of boxy/peanut (B/P) shape bulges. Nearly half of the bulges in the nearby edge-on galaxies have these characteristics, which fraction is similar to the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 E. Laurikainen , H. Salo

We present a comprehensive study of bar structures in the local Universe using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Through isophotal analysis of 232,142 galaxies, we identify bars and classify them into strong and weak categories…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Wenwen Wang , Zhimin Zhou

The structural parameters of a magnitude-limited sample of 148 unbarred S0-Sb galaxies were derived using the GASP2D algorithm and then analyzed to derive the intrinsic shape of their bulges. We developed a new method to derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-30 J. Mendez-Abreu , E. Simonneau , J. A. L. Aguerri , E. M. Corsini

Prompted by work on the buckling instability in barred spiral galaxies, much effort has been devoted lately to the study of boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges. Here, we present new bar diagnostics for edge-on spiral galaxies based on periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bureau , K. C. Freeman , E. Athanassoula

From a sample of 84 local barred, moderately inclined disc galaxies, we determine the fraction which host boxy or peanut-shaped (B/P) bulges (the vertically thickened inner parts of bars). We find that the frequency of B/P bulges in barred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Peter Erwin , Victor P. Debattista

We present a systematic observational study of the relationship between bars and boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges. We first review and discuss proposed mechanisms for their formation, focussing on accretion and bar-buckling scenarios. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bureau , K. C. Freeman

A significant part of barred disc galaxies exhibits boxy/peanut-shaped structures (B/PS bulges) at high inclinations. Another structure also associated with the bar is a barlens, often observed in galaxies in a position close to face-on. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 Daria Zakharova , Iliya S. Tikhonenko , Natalia Ya. Sotnikova , Anton A. Smirnov

(Abridged) The structural parameters of a magnitude-limited sample of 148 unbarred S0-Sb galaxies were analyzed to derive the intrinsic shape of their bulges. We developed a new method to derive the intrinsic shape of bulges based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 J. Mendez-Abreu , E. Simonneau , J. A. L. Aguerri , E. M. Corsini

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

(Abridged) A variety of formation scenarios was proposed to explain the diversity of properties observed in bulges. Studying their intrinsic shape can help in constraining the dominant mechanism at the epochs of their assembly. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Mendez-Abreu , J. A. L. Aguerri , E. M. Corsini , E. Simonneau

We present a sample of edge-on spiral galaxies both of early and late types.The sample consists of 175 galaxies in the Ks-filter, 169 galaxies in the H-filter and 165 galaxies in the J-filter. Bulge and disc decompositions of each galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 N. Ya. Sotnikova , V. P. Reshetnikov , A. V. Mosenkov

Vertically thickened bars, observed in the form of boxy/peanut (B/P) bulges, are found in the majority of massive barred disc galaxies in the local Universe, including our own. B/P bulges indicate that their host bars have suffered violent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-22 Sandor J. Kruk , Peter Erwin , Victor P. Debattista , Chris Lintott

Kn-band imaging of a sample of 30 edge-on spiral galaxies with a boxy or peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulge is discussed. Galaxies with a B/PS bulge tend to have a more complex morphology than galaxies with other bulge types, unsharp-masked images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bureau , G. Aronica , E. Athanassoula

We use the bulge Sersic index n and bulge-to-total ratio (B/T) to explore the fundamental question of how bulges form. We perform 2D bulge-disk-bar decomposition on H-band images of 143 bright, high stellar mass (>1.0e10 solar masses)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tim Weinzirl , Shardha Jogee , Sadegh Khochfar , Andreas Burkert , John Kormendy
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