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The problem of how some disk galaxies avoid forming bars remains unsolved. Many galaxy models having reasonable properties continue to manifest vigorous instabilities that rapidly form strong bars and no widely-accepted idea has yet been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-30 J A Sellwood , R G Carlberg

We use high resolution numerical simulations in order to analyze the stellar bar evolution in spinning dark matter (DM) halos. Previous works have shown that the halo spin has a substantial effect on the bar evolution and can lead to bar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller , Daniel Pfenniger

Several mechanisms of bar formation in stellar galactic disks are considered, including Toomre swing amplification and normal mode approach. On example of the well-known model of Kuzmin--Toomre using N-body simulations it was shown that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Evgeny Polyachenko

(Abridged) The relations between stellar ($M_\ast$), gas ($M_{\rm gas}$), baryonic ($M_{\rm bar} = M_\ast + M_{\rm gas}$), and dark matter halo mass ($M_{200}$) provide unique constraints on galaxy formation and cosmology. The shape of the…

Any perturbation to a disc galaxy that creates a misalignment between the planes of the inner and outer disc, will excite a slowly evolving bending wave in the outer disc. The torque from the stiff inner disc drives a retrograde,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

We study the shape and kinematics of simulated dwarf galaxy discs in the APOSTLE suite of $\Lambda$CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We find that a large fraction of these gas-rich, star-forming discs show weak bars in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 A. Marasco , K. A. Oman , J. F. Navarro , C. S. Frenk , T. Oosterloo

In the context of increasing appreciation for the coupling between the Galactic bar and the halo, we introduce a new framework using stars trapped in resonance with the bar to probe the Galactic dark matter subhalo population. Since…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Elliot Y. Davies , Adam M. Dillamore , Vasily Belokurov , Lina Necib

The secular evolution of disk galaxies is largely driven by resonances between the orbits of 'particles' (stars or dark matter) and the rotation of non-axisymmetric features (spiral arms or a bar). Such resonances may also explain kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-19 Chris Hamilton , Elizabeth A. Tolman , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vinícius N. Duarte

Many strong simulated galactic bars experience buckling instability, which manifests itself as a vertical distortion out of the disk plane, and later dissipates. Using a simulation of an isolated Milky Way-like galaxy, I demonstrate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Ewa L. Lokas

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 use a large volume-limited sample of disk galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 to study the dependence of the bar fraction on the stellar-to-halo mass ratio, making use of a group catalog, we identify central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-09 Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Cheng Li , Changbom Park

We study the detailed structure of galaxies at redshifts z > 2 using cosmological simulations with improved modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation. The simulations follow the formation and dissociation of molecular hydrogen,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-21 Marcel Zemp , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We analyse a sample of massive disk galaxies selected from the SDSS-IV/MaNGA survey to investigate how the evolution of these galaxies depends on their stellar and halo masses. We applied a semi-analytic spectral fitting approach to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-26 Shuang Zhou , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Michael Merrifield

Within the standard hierarchical structure formation scenario, Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes have hundreds of dark matter subhaloes with mass $\gtrsim 10^8 \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$. Over the lifetime of a galactic disc a fraction of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-12 Shaoran Hu , Debora Sijacki

Galaxies are composed of baryonic stars and gas embedded in dark matter halos. Here I briefly review two aspects of the connection between baryons and their halos. (1) The observed baryon content of galaxies falls short of the cosmic baryon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Stacy McGaugh

In this paper, we systematically explore the impact of a galactic bar on the inspiral time-scale of a massive object (MO) within a Milky Way-like galaxy. We integrate the orbit of MOs in a multi-component galaxy model via a semi-analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Elisa Bortolas , Matteo Bonetti , Massimo Dotti , Alessandro Lupi , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer , Alberto Sesana

We investigate the dynamical effects of dark matter subhalos on the structure and evolution of a galactic disk, using semi-analytic method that includes approximated and empirical relations as achieved in detailed numerical simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Hirohito Hayashi , Masashi Chiba

The radial density profiles of stellar galaxy discs can be well approximated as an exponential. Compared to this canonical form, however, the profiles in the majority of disc galaxies show downward or upward breaks at large radii.…

Using data from the Gaia satellite's Radial Velocity Spectrometer Data Release 3 (RVS, DR3), we find a new and robust feature in the phase space distribution of halo stars. It is a prominent ridge at constant energy and with angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-21 Adam M. Dillamore , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans , Elliot Y. Davies

The dark matter halo properties, for example, mass, spin and concentration play a significant role in the formation and evolution of bars in disk galaxies. This study highlights the importance of a new parameter: the dark matter halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-26 Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Juntai Shen