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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 examine the properties of barred disc galaxies in a LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulation from the EAGLE project. Our study follows the formation of 269 discs identified at z = 0 in the stellar mass range 10.6 < log Mstr /M < 11.…

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…

We carry out a comparison study on the bar structure in the Illustris-1 and TNG100 simulations. At $z=0$, 8.9\% of 1232 disc galaxies with stellar mass $>10^{10.5}M_{\odot}$ in Illustris-1 are barred, while the numbers are 55\% of 1269 in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-05 Ze-Bang Zhou , Weishan Zhu , Yang Wang , Long-Long Feng

Almost two-thirds of disk galaxies in the local universe host bars, which serve as important drivers of secular evolutionary processes. While cosmological simulations are powerful tools to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Dongyao Zhao , Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Jingjing Shi

(Abridge) Bars are very common in the centre of the disc galaxies, and they drive the evolution of their structure. A volume-limited sample of 2106 disc galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 was studied to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. L. Aguerri , J. Mendez-Abreu , E. M. Corsini

We study the formation of stellar bars using 145 simulations of disc galaxies embedded in live and static dark matter haloes. We use the exponential bar growth timescale, $\tau_{\rm bar}$, to quantify how disc structure and kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow

We explore how the physical properties of disc galaxies relate to the presence of bars using data from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. By combining internal kinematical properties and environmental diagnostics, we find that barred galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-25 Erik Aquino-Ortíz , Bernardo Cervantes-Sodi , Karol Chim-Ramirez

This paper presents a study on the distinguishability of dark matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) at galactic scales based on the stability criterion proposed by Efstathiou, Lake, and Negroponte (ELN criterion). First, we test the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Tahere Kashfi , Mahmood Roshan , Virginia Cuomo , Benoit Famaey , Asiyeh Habibi , Srikanth T. Nagesh

Recent observations of high-redshift galactic disks ($z\approx 1-3$) show a strong negative trend in the dark matter fraction $f_{DM}$ with increasing baryonic surface density. For this to be true, the inner baryons must dominate over dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 J. Bland-Hawthorn , T. Tepper-Garcia , O. Agertz , K. Freeman

We aim to unravel the interplay between bars, star formation (SF), and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in barred galaxies. To this end, we utilize the SDSS DR12 to select a sample of nearby (0.02 < z < 0.06) disk galaxies that are suitable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Woong-Bae G. Zee , Sanjaya Paudel , Jun-Sung Moon , Suk-Jin Yoon

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

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

Most barred galaxies exhibit symmetric structures. However, recent studies have shown that a subset of barred galaxies exhibit lopsided morphologies. To quantify their occurrence and investigate their physical origins, we analyze barred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Junwoo Jung , Minjin Kim , Taehyun Kim

The classical picture for the formation of stellar bars -- key dynamical drivers of the evolution of galaxies -- is through secular evolution of instability in gas poor, stellar-dominated disks. The detection with the James Webb Space…

We present a suite of zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with a prominent disc component and a strong bar in their centre, based on a subsample of barred galaxies from the TNG50 magneto-hydrodynamic simulation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Silvia Bonoli , Ewald Puchwein , Massimo Dotti , Sergio Contreras

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…

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 Milky Way as well as a majority of external galaxies possess a thick disc. However, the dynamical role of the (geometrically) thick disc on the bar formation and evolution is not fully understood. Here, we investigate the effect of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Soumavo Ghosh , Francesca Fragkoudi , Paola Di Matteo , Kanak Saha
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