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Using N-body simulations, we examine the impact of dark matter (DM) halo resolution and gravitational softening on bar formation. We generate isolated disk-halo systems with fixed stellar disk parameters, varying the number of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 S. Kwak , I. Minchev , M. Steinmetz , S. K. Yi

Recent observational studies have revealed that the Galactic bulge has cylindrical rotation and a steeper vertical metallicity gradient. We adopt two representative models for the bulge formation and thereby investigate whether the two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We present an observational and theoretical study of the spiral structure in galaxy NGC 1566. A digitized image of NGC 1566 in I-band was used for measurements of the radial dependence of amplitude variations in the spiral arms. We use the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Korchagin , N. Kikuchi , S. M. Miyama , N. Orlova , B. A. Peterson

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Axel Widmark , Jason A. S. Hunt , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Giacomo Monari

In this paper, we calculate simulated scattered light images of a circumstellar disk in which a planet is forming by gravitational instability. The simulated images bear no correlation to the vertically integrated surface density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hannah Jang-Condell , Alan P. Boss

We use high-resolution numerical simulations to follow the barred disk evolution in a suite of models with progressively more massive stellar bulges, with bulge-to-total (disk$+$bulge) mass ratios of $B/T\sim 0-0.25$, embedded in dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Daniel Pfenniger , Clayton Heller

We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the rotation curves of galaxies in the local universe. To do that, we first select the galaxies with 9.4 $<$ $\log{(M_\mathrm{star}/M_\odot)}$ $<$ 11.5 to make a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Daeun Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Haeun Chung , Yongmin Yoon

We conduct numerical experiments by evolving gaseous/stellar disks embedded in live dark matter halos aiming at quantifying the effect of gas spatial resolution and gas content on the bar evolution. Model sequences have been constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jorge Villa-Vargas , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

We examine a possible formation scenario of galactic thick discs with numerical simulations. Thick discs have previously been argued to form in clumpy disc phase in the high-redshift Universe, which host giant clumps of <10^9 M_sun in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Shigeki Inoue , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We discuss the stability of galactic disks in which the energy of interstellar clouds is gained in encounters with expanding supernova remnants and lost in inelastic collisions. Energy gain and loss processes introduce a phase difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adi Nusser

We examine the vertical structure and equilibrium of the molecular gas layer in the galactic disk, measuring its scale height and velocity dispersion as a function of Galactic radius by modeling the CO emission at the tangent points. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sangeeta Malhotra

The discrepancy between the visible mass in galaxies or galaxy clusters, and that inferred from their dynamics is well known. The prevailing solution to this problem is dark matter. Here we show that a different approach, one that conforms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Alexandre Deur , Corey Sargent , Balša Terzić

We perform 3D SPH simulations of warped, non-coplanar gravitationally unstable discs to show that as the warp propagates through the self-gravitating disc, it heats up the disc rendering it gravitationally stable. Thus losing their spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Álvaro Villalobos , Amina Helmi

We use N-body simulations of bar formation in isolated galaxies to study the effect of bulge mass and bulge concentration on bar formation. Bars are global disk instabilities that evolve by transferring angular momentum from the inner to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-03 Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Mousumi Das

An accurate knowledge of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way is of crucial importance for galaxy formation studies and current searches for particle dark matter. In this paper we set new dynamical constraints on the Galactic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-03 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone

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…

We predict the structure and dynamics of disc galaxies using galaxy evolution models within a hierarchical formation scenario The halo mass aggregation histories, for a Lambda CDM model, were generated and used to calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese

We model and analyse the secular evolution of stellar bars in spinning dark matter (DM) haloes with the cosmological spin lambda ~ 0 -- 0.09. Using high-resolution stellar and DM numerical simulations, we focus on angular momentum exchange…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Angela Collier , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

The well-known bar instability of rotationally-supported disk galaxy models has been studied extensively since its first discovery over half a century ago. We were therefore very surprised to find cases of disks embedded in rigid halos,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-24 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista , R. G. Carlberg
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