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Stellar bars are a common feature in massive disc galaxies. On a theoretical ground, the response of gas to a bar is generally thought to cause nuclear starbursts and, possibly, AGN activity once the perturbed gas reaches the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Fanali , M. Dotti , D. Fiacconi , F. Haardt

An overwhelming majority of galactic spiral arms trail with respect to the rotation of the galaxy, though a small sample of leading spiral arms has been observed. The formation of these leading spirals is not well understood. Here we show,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Emma Lieb , Angela Collier , Ann-Marie Madigan

Many barred galaxies, possibly including the Milky Way, have cusps in the centres. There is a widespread belief, however, that usual bar instability taking place in bulgeless galaxy models is impossible for the cuspy models, because of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-07 E. V. Polyachenko , P. Berczik , A. Just

Spiral structure can occupy a significant part of the galaxy, but properly accounting for it in photometric decomposition is rarely done. This may lead to significant errors in the parameters determined. To estimate how exactly neglecting…

In this paper, we look to analyse the spiral features of grand-design, multiarmed, and flocculent spiral galaxies using deep optical imaging from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. We explore the resulting distributions of various characteristics…

Context. Observations of polarized radio emission show that large-scale (regular) magnetic fields in spiral galaxies are not axisymmetric, but generally stronger in interarm regions. In some nearby galaxies such as NGC 6946 they are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Moss , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , M. Krause , T. G. Arshakian

We use hydrodynamic simulations to investigate nonlinear gas responses to an imposed stellar spiral potential in disk galaxies. The gaseous medium is assumed to be infinitesimally thin, isothermal, and unmagnetized. We consider various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yonghwi Kim , Woong-Tae Kim

We introduce a simple family of barred galaxy models with flat rotation curves. They are built by convolving the axisymmetric logarithmic model with a needle density. The density contours in the bar region are highly triaxial and elongated,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 A. A. Williams , N. W. Evans

Spiral arms are the defining features of broad morphological classes of disc galaxies, but their nature and influence on galaxy evolution is still under debate. A key diagnostic for their nature is the spiral arm pattern speed: the radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Robert J. J. Grand , Martin Roth

The Galactic center of the Milky-Way harbors a massive black hole (BH) orbited by a diverse population of young and old stars. A significant fraction of the youngest stars ($\sim4-7$ Myr) reside in a thin stellar disk with puzzling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-02 Hagai B. Perets , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Yohai Meiron , Alessia Gualandris

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

Strong galactic bars produced in simulations tend to undergo a period of buckling instability that weakens and thickens them and forms a boxy/peanut structure in their central parts. This theoretical prediction has been confirmed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Ewa L. Lokas

Outer rings are located at the greatest distance from the galaxy center of any feature resonant with a bar. Because of their large scale, their morphology is sensitive to the distribution of the dark matter in the galaxy. We introduce here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. C. Quillen , J. A. Frogel

We present a study of the environment of barred galaxies using galaxies drawn from the SDSS. We use several different statistics to quantify the environment: the projected two-point cross-correlation function, the background-subtracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Cheng Li , Changbom Park , Lixin Wang

Angular momentum redistribution within barred galaxies drives their dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar region and absorbed by resonant material mainly in the outer disc and in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Athanassoula

From a sample of 50 predominantly inactive galaxies with direct supermassive black hole mass measurements, it has recently been established that barred galaxies tend to reside rightward of the M_bh-sigma relation defined by non-barred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham , I-hui Li

We have done a detailed study on the structural and kinematical properties of lenticular and early- and late-type spiral galaxies with bars, aiming to explore the formation and evolution processes of stellar bars in galaxies, and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitri Alexei Gadotti

The gas distribution and dynamics in the inner Galaxy present many unknowns as the origin of the asymmetry of the longitude-velocity (lv) diagram of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). On the other hand, there are recent evidences in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez , Francoise Combes

We investigate the properties of massive, dense clouds formed in a barred galaxy and their possible relation to star formation, performing a two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation with the gravitational potential obtained from the 2Mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Nimori , A. Habe , K. Sorai , Y. Watanabe , A. Hirota , D. Namekata

In the manifold theory of spiral structure in barred galaxies, the usual assumption is that the spirals rotate with the same pattern speed as the bar. Here we generalize the manifold theory under the assumption that the spirals rotate with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 C. Efthymiopoulos , M. Harsoula , G. Contopoulos