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We analyze bars formed in $N$-body simulations to investigate two key aspects of stellar kinematic structure of barred galaxies: the angular distributions of the radial and azimuthal components of stellar velocities, and the impact of bars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Seungwon Baek , Woong-Tae Kim , Dajeong Jang , Taehyun Kim

To quantify the effect that bar driven mass inflow can have on the evolution of a galaxy requires an understanding of the dynamics of the inflowing gas. In this paper we study the kinematics of the dense molecular gas in a set of seven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael W. Regan , Kartik Sheth , Stuart N. Vogel

We quantify how bar-driven non-circular motions bias Milky-Way gas maps inferred with the kinematic-distance (KD) method. KD reconstructions of H\,\textsc{i} and CO surveys assume circular rotation in an axisymmetric potential, an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-05 Junichi Baba

A model of the Galaxy with the outer ring R1R2 can explain the observed distribution of the radial, VR, and azimuthal, VT, velocity components along the Galactocentric distance, R, derived from the Gaia EDR3 data. We selected stars from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-16 A. M. Melnik , A. K. Dambis , E. N. Podzolkova , L. N. Berdnikov

The gas dynamics in the inner few kiloparsecs of barred galaxies often results in configurations that give rise to nuclear gas rings. However, the generic dynamical description of the formation of galactic nuclear rings does not take into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Jesus M. Salas , Smadar Naoz , Mark R. Morris

Evidence for non-zero mean stellar velocities in the direction perpendicular to the Galactic plane has been accumulating from various recent large spectroscopic surveys. Previous analytical and numerical work has shown that a "breathing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert

The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Chiba

We examine the observable properties of simulated barred galaxies including radial mass profiles, edge-on structure and kinematics, bar lengths and pattern speed evolution for detailed comparison to real systems. We have run several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. K. O'Neill , J. Dubinski

We study the radial transport of cold gas within simulated disk galaxies at cosmic noon, aiming at distinguishing between disk instability and accretion along cold streams from the cosmic web as its driving mechanism. Disks are selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Omri Ginzburg , Reinhard Genzel

Gravitational lens flux ratio anomalies are a powerful probe of small-scale mass structures, often attributed to dark matter subhalos. However, baryonic components can also play a significant role. This study investigates, for the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Xikai Shan , Yunpeng Jin , Shude Mao

We have derived absolute proper motions of the entire Galactic bulge region from VIRAC and Gaia. We present these as both integrated on-sky maps and, after isolating standard candle red clump (RC) stars, as a function of distance using RC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-06 Jonathan P. Clarke , Christopher Wegg , Ortwin Gerhard , Leigh C. Smith , Phil W. Lucas , Shola M. Wylie

We develop diagnostics based on gas kinematics to identify the presence of a bar in an edge-on spiral galaxy and determine its orientation. We use position-velocity diagrams (PVDs) obtained by projecting edge-on two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Athanassoula , M. Bureau

Context. Bars are elongated structures developed by a large fraction of disk galaxies in their central few kiloparsecs. However, the bar formation process is still not fully understood, particularly the role played by the galaxy environment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Virginia Cuomo , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Lorenzo Morelli , Nelvy Choque-Challapa , Stefano Zarattini

We examine the circular velocity profiles of galaxies in {\Lambda}CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and LOCAL GROUPS projects and compare them with a compilation of observed rotation curves of galaxies spanning a…

We review general observational properties of bars in galaxies, and relations between bars, their dynamics, and (circum)nuclear activity. We consider new measurements of bar fractions and of the distribution of bars with host type, bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Johan H. Knapen

In this paper we use the two-dimensional (2D) version of a new analytical gravitational model in order to explore the orbital as well as the escape dynamics of the stars in a barred galaxy composed of a spherically symmetric central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-13 Christof Jung , Euaggelos E. Zotos

We develop diagnostics to detect the presence and orientation of a bar in an edge-on disk, using its kinematical signature in the position-velocity diagram (PVD) of a spiral galaxy observed edge-on. Using a well-studied barred spiral galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bureau , E. Athanassoula

The existence of partially ionized, diffuse gas and dust clouds at kiloparsec scale distances above the central planes of edge-on, galaxy discs was an unexpected discovery about 20 yrs ago. Subsequent observations showed that this EDIG…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Curtis Struck , Daniel C. Smith