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Bars in disky galaxies can be formed by interactions with other systems, including those of comparable mass. It has long been established that the effect of such interactions on galaxy morphology depends strongly on the orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Ewa L. Lokas

A restricted planar circular three-body system, consisting of the Sun and two planets, is studied as a simple model for a planetary system. The mass of the inner planet is considered to be larger and the system is assumed to be moving in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nader Haghighipour

In this paper we compare the molecular gas depletion times and mid-plane hydrostatic pressure in turbulent, star forming disk galaxies to internal properties of these galaxies. For this analysis we use 17 galaxies from the DYNAMO sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Deanne B Fisher , Alberto D. Bolatto , Heidi White , Karl Glazebrook , Roberto G. Abraham , Danail Obreschkow

Central bars and spirals are known to strongly impact the evolution of their host galaxies, both in terms of dynamics and star formation. Their typically different pattern speeds cause them to regularly overlap, which induces fluctuations…

A fascinating effect belonging to the field of vacuum forces and fluctuations is that of quantum friction. It refers to the prediction of a dissipative force acting on a moving object due to the quantum vacuum field. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nicolas Schüler , O. J. Franca , Michael Vaz , Hervé Bercegol , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Using a powerful combination of projection-operator method and path-space response theory, we derive the fluctuation dynamics of a slow inertial probe coupled to a steady nonequilibrium medium under the assumption of time-scale separation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Ji-Hui Pei , Christian Maes

The dynamical friction force experienced by a massive gravitating body moving through a gaseous medium is modified by sufficiently strong large-scale magnetic fields. Using linear perturbation theory, we calculate the structure of the wake…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo

We study the bar instability in collisionless, rotating, anisotropic, stellar systems, using N-body simulations and also the matrix technique for calculation of modes with the perturbed collisionless Boltzmann equation. These methods are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Philip G. Breen , Simon Rozier , Douglas C. Heggie , Anna Lisa Varri

Although stellar bars are prevalent in local galaxies, unbarred galaxies constitute a significant fraction, particularly at high redshifts. While some galaxies are unbarred by nature due to stability against the bar instability, several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Yufan Zhou , Zhiyuan Li , Óscar Jiménez-Arranz , Santi Roca-Fàbrega

We study the distinction and quantification of chaotic and regular motion in a time-dependent Hamiltonian barred galaxy model. Recently, a strong correlation was found between the strength of the bar and the presence of chaotic motion in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-20 T. Manos , T. Bountis , Ch. Skokos

We explore the dynamics of active elements performing persistent random motion with fluctuating active speed and in the presence of translational noise in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap, modeling active speed generation through an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 Manish Patel , Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

We consider the gravitational force exerted on a point-like perturber of mass $M$ travelling within a uniform gaseous, opaque medium at constant velocity $V$. The perturber irradiates the surrounding gas with luminosity $L$. The diffusion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Frédéric S. Masset , David A. Velasco Romero

The evolution of disk galaxies in modified gravity is studied by using high-resolution N-body simulations. More specifically, we use the weak field limit of two modified gravity theories, i.e., nonlocal gravity (NLG) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-28 Neda Ghafourian , Mahmood Roshan , Shahram Abbassi

We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

The analytical generalization of the classical dynamical friction formula (derived under the assumption that all the field particles have the same mass) to the case in which the masses of the field particles are distributed with a mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Luca Ciotti

The static friction between crystalline surfaces separated by a molecularly thin layer of adsorbed molecules is calculated using molecular dynamics simulations. These molecules naturally lead to a finite static friction that is consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Gang He , Mark O. Robbins

We present simulations of the gaseous and stellar material in several different galaxy mass models under the influence of different tidal fly-bys to assess the changes in their bar and spiral morphology. Five different mass models are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Alex R. Pettitt , James W. Wadsley

In this paper the recent interaction model over post-Newtonian theory of gravity has been used to study the stellar dynamics. It implies space time fabric that built over the massive object gets perturbed or literally contracted in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Shubhen Biswas

Angular momentum redistribution within barred galaxies drives their dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar region and absorbed by resonant material mainly in the outer disc and in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Athanassoula

Dynamical friction governs the orbital decay of massive perturbers within galaxies and dark matter halos, yet its standard Chandrasekhar formulation fails in systems with cores of (roughly) constant density, where inspiral can halt or even…