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Clusters can provide propitious environments for bar formation in galaxies. This work studies the formation and evolution of 15 bar-like galaxies in the most massive cluster of the TNG50 simulation from the IllustrisTNG suite. The selection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Ewa L. Lokas

Elongated, bar-like galaxies without a significant disk component, with little rotation support and no gas, often form as a result of tidal interactions with a galaxy cluster, as was recently demonstrated using the IllustrisTNG-100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Ewa L. Lokas

We study a sample of bar-like galaxies in the Illustris TNG100 simulation, in which almost the whole stellar component is in the form of a prolate spheroid. The sample is different from the late-type barred galaxies studied before. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Ewa L. Lokas

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

Using N-body simulations we study the formation and evolution of tidally induced bars in disky galaxies in clusters. Our progenitor is a massive, late-type galaxy similar to the Milky Way, composed of an exponential disk and an NFW dark…

New JWST observations have revealed the presence of a significant number of high-redshift barred galaxies. The origin of these bars remains unclear, and their properties appear difficult to reconcile with the results of cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Ewa L. Lokas

Bars in galaxies may develop through a global instability or due to an interaction with another system. We study bar formation in disky dwarf galaxies orbiting a Milky Way-like galaxy. We employ $N$-body simulations to study the impact of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula

Bars are an elongated structure that extends from the centre of galaxies, and about one-third of disk galaxies are known to possess bars. These bars are thought to form either through a physical process inherent in galaxies, or through an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Yongmin Yoon , Myungshin Im , Gwang-Ho Lee , Seong-Kook Lee , Gu Lim

Bars in galaxies may form not only through instability, but also as a result of an interaction with another galaxy. In particular, they may appear in disky dwarf galaxies interacting with Milky Way-like galaxies. Here we report the results…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-29 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Łokas , E. Athanassoula

Stellar bars are a common morphological feature of spiral galaxies. While it is known that they can form in isolation, or be induced tidally, few studies have explored the production of stellar bars in galaxy merging. We look to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Mitchell Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki

We study barred galaxies selected from the Illustris cosmological simulation, focusing on tidally induced bars formed from flyby interactions. To guarantee high enough resolution we focus on high mass disc galaxies ($M_*>8.3 \times 10^{10}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-04 Nicolas Peschken , Ewa L. Łokas

Using N-body simulations, we study the properties of a bar induced in a dwarf galaxy as a result of tidal interaction with the Milky Way. The dwarf is initially composed of a disk embedded in a dark matter halo and we follow its evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-12 E. L. Lokas , E. Athanassoula , V. P. Debattista , M. Valluri , A. del Pino , M. Semczuk , G. Gajda , K. Kowalczyk

We investigate the formation of stellar bars in 307 Milky Way-mass disc galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Most bars form rapidly in dynamically cold discs shortly after the central stellar mass exceeds that of dark matter. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Matthew Frosst , Danail Obreschkow , Aaron Ludlow , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie

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 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

Double bars make up a significant fraction of barred galaxies. We propose a new formation scenario for double bars that involves tidal interactions. We demonstrate the viability of this scenario using two examples of simulated galaxies from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-02 Marcin Semczuk , Ewa L. Łokas , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres , E. Athanassoula

Galactic bars drive the internal evolution of spiral galaxies, while their formation is tightly coupled to the properties of their host galaxy and dark matter halo. To explore what drives bar formation in the cosmological context and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Francesca Fragkoudi , Robert Grand , Rüdiger Pakmor , Facundo Gómez , Federico Marinacci , Volker Springel

We study the tidal evolution of galaxies in the most massive cluster of the IllustrisTNG-100 simulation. For the purpose of this work we select 112 galaxies with the largest stellar masses at present and follow their properties in time.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Ewa L. Lokas

Bar structures can form internally due to the instability of their host galaxies or externally due to perturbations from other galaxies. We systematically quantify the growth timescales ($\tau_\mathrm{bar}$) of bars formed through these two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Yirui Zheng , Juntai Shen , Xufen Wu , Bin-Hui Chen

Recent discoveries made with JWST observations include a significant number of barred galaxies at high redshift. Their origin remains unclear and their presence seems difficult to reproduce in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Ewa L. Lokas
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