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Bars drive gas inflow. As the gas flows inwards, shocks and shear occur along the bar dust lanes. Such shocks and shear can affect the star formation and change the gas properties. For four barred galaxies, we present H{\alpha} velocity…

Past studies have long emphasised the key role played by galactic stellar bars in the context of disc secular evolution, via the redistribution of gas and stars, the triggering of star formation, and the formation of prominent structures…

We have measured the fraction of bars in nearby spiral galaxies using near-infrared J, H, and K_s images of 151 spiral galaxies from 2MASS. This local sample provides an anchor for the study of the evolution of the bar fraction and bar…

We present an update to the frequency analysis method for measuring the properties of a galactic bar. The method involves computing the fundamental frequencies of orbits in rotating, N-body-derived potential models, classifying the stars as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Zachary Langford , Robyn Sanderson , Madeline Lucey , Jason A. S. Hunt

The physical mechanisms responsible for bar formation and destruction in galaxies remain a subject of debate. While we have gained valuable insight into how bars form and evolve from isolated idealized simulations, in the cosmological…

We have obtained two-dimensional velocity fields in the ionized gas of a set of 8 double-barred galaxies, at high spatial and spectral resolution, using their H$\alpha$ emission fields measured with a scanning Fabry-Perot spectrometer.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joan Font , John E. Beckman , Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel , Kambiz Fathi , Benoît Epinat , Philippe Amram

Using hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the physical properties of gaseous substructures in barred galaxies and their relationships with the bar strength. The gaseous medium is assumed to be isothermal and unmagnetized. The bar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Woo-Young Seo , Yonghwi Kim

We investigate how the environment of a dynamically unrelaxed galaxy cluster influences the structure and dynamics of stellar bars. In particular, we examine cluster-centric variations in normalised bar size and bar pattern speed in Abell…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 Chandan Watts , Sudhanshu Barway , Mousumi Das , Ewa L. Lokas

The dynamical effects on the stellar motion produced by the Galactic central bar and the spiral arms perturbations are investigated separately and compared. The stars from the Gaia DR3 catalog are selected in the region of observable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 Willian Y. Nacafucasaco , Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Douglas Barros , Jacques Lépine

Bars in galaxies are thought to stimulate both inflow of material and radial mixing along them. Observational evidence for this mixing has been inconclusive so far however, limiting the evaluation of the impact of bars on galaxy evolution.…

We apply the Tremaine-Weinberg method to 19 nearby galaxies using stellar mass surface densities and velocities derived from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, to calculate (primarily bar) pattern speeds ($\Omega_{\rm P}$). After quality checks, we…

We have developed a new method for determining the corotation radii of density waves in disk galaxies, which makes use of the radial distribution of an azimuthal phase shift between the potential and density wave patterns. The approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaolei Zhang , Ronald J. Buta

We have measured the radial light profiles and global shapes of bars using two-dimensional 3.6 $\mu m $ image decompositions for 144 face-on barred galaxies from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). The bar surface…

Recently, Buta etal. (2009) examined the question "Do Bars Drive Spiral Density Waves?", an idea supported by theoretical studies and also from a preliminary observational analysis Block etal (2004). They estimated maximum bar strengths…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Salo , E. Laurikainen , R. Buta , J. H. Knapen

It has been known for some time that rotating bars in galaxies slow due to dynamical friction against the halo. However, recent attempts to use this process to place constraints on the dark matter density in galaxies and possibly also to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. A. Sellwood

We present empirical constraints on the influence of stellar bars on the fueling of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to z=0.84 using a sample of X-ray-selected AGNs hosted in luminous non-interacting face-on and moderately inclined disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mauricio Cisternas , Kartik Sheth , Mara Salvato , Johan H. Knapen , Francesca Civano , Paola Santini

The MaNGA project has obtained IFU data for several thousand nearby galaxies, including barred galaxies. With the two dimensional spectral and kinematic information provided by IFUs, we can measure the pattern speed of a barred galaxy,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Rui Guo , Shude Mao , E. Athanassoula , Hongyu Li , Junqiang Ge , R. J. Long , Michael Merrifield , Karen Masters

To examine the role of the host galaxy structure in fueling nuclear activity, we estimated gas flow rates from several kpc down to the inner few 10 pc for seven nearby spiral galaxies, selected from the NUGA sample (NUclei of GAlaxies). We…

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

Action space synthesizes the orbital information of stars and is well-suited to analyse the rich kinematic substructure of the disc in the \emph{Gaia} DR2 radial velocity sample (RVS). We revisit the strong perturbation induced in the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-29 Wilma H. Trick , Francesca Fragkoudi , Jason A. S. Hunt , J. Ted Mackereth , Simon D. M. White