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We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular momentum of galaxies, $j$, with the aims of (i) investigating the physical causes behind the wide range of $j$ at fixed mass and (ii) examining…

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

Bars in disk galaxies slow down as they transfer their angular momentum to their dark matter halo via dynamical friction from near-resonant orbits. This bar-halo dynamical friction can become ineffective once phase mixing erases the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Rumi Kodama , Rimpei Chiba , Tetsuro Asano , Junichi Baba , Michiko Fujii

I review the various mechanisms for creating bars in rotating stellar disks, and conclude that the swing-amplified feed-back loop, which produces rapidly tumbling bars, remains the most probable. The bar continues to evolve after its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J A Sellwood

We discuss the evolution of a disc galaxy due to the formation of a bar and, subsequently, a peanut. After the formation stage there is still considerable evolution, albeit slower. In purely stellar cases the pattern speed of the bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Athanassoula

This paper describes a framework for studying galaxy morphology, particularly bar strength, in a quantitative manner, and presents applications of this approach that reveal observational evidence for secular evolution in bar morphology. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Merrifield

The dynamic evolution of galactic bars in standard $\Lambda$CDM models is dominated by angular momentum loss to the dark matter haloes via dynamical friction. Traditional approximations to dynamical friction are formulated using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-29 Rimpei Chiba , Ralph Schönrich

The angular momentum of dark matter haloes controls their spin magnitude and orientation, which in turn influences the galaxies therein. However, the process by which dark matter haloes acquire angular momentum is not fully understood; in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Corentin Cadiou , Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris

The time evolution of barred structures is examined under the influence of the external forces exerted by a spherical halo and by prolate halos. In particular, galaxy disks are placed in the plane including the major axis of prolate halos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Ideta , Shunsuke Hozumi

Recent theoretical studies have shown that galaxies at high redshift are fed by cold, dense gas filaments, suggesting angular momentum transport by gas differs from that by dark matter. Revisiting this issue using high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-06 Taysun Kimm , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Christophe Pichon , Susan A. Kassin , Yohan Dubois

While it has long been known that a large number of short-lived transient spirals can cause stellar migration, here we report that another mechanism is also effective at mixing disks of barred galaxies. The resonance overlap of the bar and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 I. Minchev , B. Famaey

We investigate the complex interactions between the stellar disc and the dark-matter halo during bar formation and evolution using N-body simulations with fine temporal resolution and optimally chosen spatial resolution. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-17 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

It has been known for some time that rotating bars in galaxies slow due to dynamical friction against the halo. However, recent attempts to use this process to place constraints on the dark matter density in galaxies and possibly also to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. A. Sellwood

It is generally thought that conservative mass transfer in Algol binaries causes their orbits to be wider, in which the less massive star overflows its Roche-lobe. The observed decrease in the orbital periods of some Algol binaries suggests…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li , Sheng-Bang Qian

The evolution and distribution of the angular momentum of dark matter (DM) halos have been discussed in several studies over the past decades. In particular, the idea arose that angular momentum conservation should allow to infer the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 A. F. Teklu , R. -S. Remus , K. Dolag , A. M. Beck , A. Burkert , A. S. Schmidt , F. Schulze , L. K. Steinborn

Galactic bars are found in the majority of disc galaxies. They rotate nearly rigidly with an angular frequency called pattern speed. Previous idealised simulations have shown that bar pattern speed decreases with time due to dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Marcin Semczuk , Walter Dehnen , Ralph Schönrich , E. Athanassoula

We study the mechanisms and evolutionary phases of bar formation in n-body simulations of a stellar disc and dark matter halo system using harmonic basis function expansion analysis to characterize the dynamical mechanisms in bar evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-21 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

Cosmological simulations show that dark matter halos surrounding baryonic disks have a wide range of angular momenta, measured by the spin parameter ($\lambda$). In this study, we bring out the importance of inner angular momentum($<$30…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Juntai Shen

Disk galaxies evolve over time through processes that may rearrange both the radial mass profile and the metallicity distribution within the disk. This review of such slow changes is largely, though not entirely, restricted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. A. Sellwood

This study examines the relationship between magnetic field complexity and mass and angular momentum losses. Observations of open clusters have revealed a bimodal distribution of the rotation periods of solar-like stars that has proven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen