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Bars in spiral galaxies can weaken through gas inflow towards the center, and angular momentum transfer. Several bar episodes can follow one another in the life of the galaxy, if sufficient gas is accreted from the intergalactic medium to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-05 F. Combes

We present a novel interpretation of the previously puzzling different behaviours of stellar populations of the Milky Way's bulge. We first show, by means of pure N-body simulations, that initially co-spatial stellar populations with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-08 Victor P. Debattista , Melissa Ness , Oscar A. Gonzalez , K. Freeman , Manuela Zoccali , Dante Minniti

When galactic discs settle and become massive enough, they are able to form stellar bars. These non-axisymmetric structures induce shocks in the gas, causing it to flow to the centre where nuclear structures, such as nuclear discs and…

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

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

We performed a series of 29 gasdynamical simulations of disc galaxies, barred and unbarred, with various stellar masses, to study the impact of the bar on star formation history. Unbarred galaxies evolve very smoothly, with a star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Christian Carles , Hugo Martel , Sara L. Ellison , Daisuke Kawata

I present N-body simulations of isolated and interacting galaxies, made on GRAPE machines. In particular I discuss the formation and evolution of N-body bars and compare their properties to those of bars in early-type and late-type galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

We present "radially-resolved-equilibrium-models" for the growth of stellar and gaseous disks in cosmologically accreting massive halos. Our focus is on objects that evolve to redshifts $z\sim 2$. We solve the time-dependent equations that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-29 Ben Rathaus , Amiel Sternberg

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations aimed to study the evolution of a disc galaxy within the global tidal field of a group environment. Both the disc galaxy and the group are modelled as multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Álvaro Villalobos , Gabriella De Lucia , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante

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

Recent JWST observations claim the existence of a significant fraction of bars in the kinematically hotter and thicker disk at high redshift Universe. These observations challenge the current understanding of disk stability in galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Sandeep Kumar Kataria

We study the stellar discs and spheroids in eight simulations of galaxy formation within Milky Way-mass haloes in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmology. A first paper in this series concentrated on disc properties. Here, we extend this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Cecilia Scannapieco , Simon D. M White , Volker Springel , Patricia B. Tissera

The emergence of a large-scale stellar bar is one of the most striking features in disc galaxies. By means of state-of-the-art cosmological zoom-in simulations, we study the formation and evolution of bars in Milky Way-like galaxies in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-23 Tommaso Zana , Massimo Dotti , Pedro R. Capelo , Silvia Bonoli , Francesco Haardt , Lucio Mayer , Daniele Spinoso

We use the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^{4}$G) 3.6 $\mu$m imaging to study the properties (length and strength) and fraction of bars at $z=0$. We use the maximum of tangential-to-radial force ratio in the bar region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-26 Simón Díaz-García , Heikki Salo , Eija Laurikainen , Martín Herrera-Endoqui

We use N-body simulations to study the formation of rings in a disc galaxy by the impact of a small spherical companion. Both barred and nonbarred target discs are considered. We discuss the effect of the properties of the target disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Athanassoula , I. Puerari , A. Bosma

We study dynamics of bars in models of disk galaxies embeded in realistic dark matter halos. We find that disk thickness plays an important, if not dominant, role in the evolution and structure of the bars. We also make extensive numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Klypin , O. Valenzuela , P. Colin , T. Quinn

The tumbling pattern of a bar is the main parameter characterising its dynamics. From numerical simulations, its evolution since bar formation is tightly linked to the dark halo in which the bar is formed through dynamical friction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Perez , J. A. L. Aguerri , J. Mendez-Abreu

In the standard paradigm of galaxy formation and evolution, the baryonic component of galaxies forms from the collapse and condensation of gas within dark matter haloes, and later grows from continuous accretion of gaseous mass, both in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-15 F. G. Iza , S. E. Nuza , C. Scannapieco

We construct and evolve families of steady-state models of stellar disks embedded in live DM halos, in order to study the dynamical and secular phases of bar evolution. These models are tested against those published in the literature in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jorge Villa-Vargas , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller