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A bar-like central feature is commonly observed in both nearby and distant spiral-type galaxies, including the Milky Way. While many methods exist to categorise this morphology, no one method has emerged as the field-wide standard. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Elizabeth J. Iles , Finn A. Pal , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ken Freeman

We present the first galactic-scale model of the gas dynamics of the prototype barred Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC1097. We use large scale FaNTOmM Fabry-Perot interferometric data covering the entire galactic disc and combine the distribution and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Piñol-Ferrer , K. Fathi , C. Carignan , J. Font , O. Hernandez , R. Karlsson , G. van de Ven

Simulations predict that bars in galaxies should slow down over time. This is often attributed to the exchange of angular momentum between the bar and other regions of the galaxy, such as the outer disc and dark matter halo, which implies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Tobias Géron , Kai Zhu , Steph Campbell , Chris Lintott , R. J. Smethurst , Behzad Tahmasebzadeh

We use a recent near-infrared imaging survey of samples of Seyfert and normal galaxies to study the role of bars in the fueling of nuclear activity. The active galaxy sample includes Seyfert galaxies in the Revised Shapely-Ames (RSA) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John S. Mulchaey , Michael W. Regan

For several decades it has been known that stellar bars in disc galaxies can be triggered by interactions, or by internal processes such as dynamical instabilities. In this work, we explore the differences between these two mechanisms using…

The dynamics of a barred galaxy depends on the angular velocity or pattern speed of its bar. Indeed, it is related to the location of corotation where gravitational and centrifugal forces cancel out in the rest frame of the bar. The only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-08 E. M. Corsini

We use $N$-body simulations to investigate the distinct bar formation processes in disks residing in halos of various concentrations. In a highly concentrated halo, the bar development is limited by the dominant multi-arm modes as a result…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 T. Worrakitpoonpon

We present a quantitative and statistical analysis of the molecular gas morphology in 73 nearby galaxies using high spatial resolution CO ($J$ = 2-1) data obtained from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by the PHANGS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-12 Takashi Yamamoto , Daisuke Iono , Toshiki Saito , Nario Kuno , Sophia K. Stuber , Daizhong Liu , Thomas G. Williams

We investigate gas dynamics in the presence of a double inner Lindblad resonance within a barred disk galaxy. Using an example of a prominent spiral, M100, we reproduce the basic central morphology, including four dominant regions of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Isaac Shlosman

A strong bar rotating within a massive halo should lose angular momentum to the halo through dynamical friction, as predicted by Weinberg. We have conducted fully self-consistent, numerical simulations of barred galaxy models with a live…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

Nonbarred ringed galaxies are relatively normal galaxies showing bright rings of star formation in spite of lacking a strong bar. This morphology is interesting because it is generally accepted that a typical ring forms when material…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. D. Grouchy , R. J. Buta , H. Salo , E. Laurikainen

Dwarf barred galaxies are the perfect candidates for hosting slowly-rotating bars. They are common in dense environments and they have a relatively shallow potential well, making them prone to heating by interactions. When an interaction…

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

The absence of star formation in the bar region that has been reported for some galaxies can theoretically be explained by shear. However, it is not clear how star-forming (SF) bars fit into this picture and how the dynamical state of the…

Bars inhabit the majority of local-Universe disk galaxies and may be important drivers of galaxy evolution through the redistribution of gas and angular momentum within disks. We investigate the star formation and gas properties of bars in…

We introduce a new approach to classify barred galaxies that utilizes the transverse-to-radial force ratio map (ratio map, hereafter) in a different manner from previous studies. When we display the ratio map in polar coordinates, barred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Yun Hee Lee , Myeong-Gu Park , Hong Bae Ann , Taehyun Kim , Woo-Young Seo

Only through resonances can non-axisymmetric features such as spiral arms and bars exert torques over large scales and change the overall structure of a near-equilibrium galaxy. We describe the resonant interaction mechanism in detail and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

Co-moving groups of stars (streams) are well known in the velocity space of the disc near the Sun. Many are thought to arise from resonances with the Galactic bar or spiral arms. In this work, we search for similar moving groups in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam M. Dillamore , Jason L. Sanders , Vasily Belokurov , Hanyuan Zhang

We study the orbital structure in a series of self-consistent $N$-body configurations simulating rotating barred galaxies with spiral and ring structures. We perform frequency analysis in order to measure the angular and the radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-06 Maria Harsoula , Constantinos Kalapotharakos