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Understanding our Galactic Center is easier with insights from nearby galactic nuclei. Both the star formation activity in nuclear gas disks, driven by bars and nuclear bars, and the fueling of low-luminosity AGN, followed by feedback of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 F. Combes

We present a statistical analysis of the connections between galactic bars, star formation, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity using 33,201 disk galaxies (0.01 < z < 0.05) from DESI DR1 cross-matched with Galaxy Zoo DESI. Based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Jianfei Liu , Zhimin Zhou

We investigate rapid mass supply process by nested bars in the Galaxy by numerical simulation. We simulate gas flow in the whole galaxy disk with nested bars, which are the outer bar and the inner bar, especially with highly spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daisuke Namekata , Asao Habe , Hidenori Matsui , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We present new stellar kinematical profiles of four galaxy hosts of active galactic nuclei, using the CO bandhead around 2.3 micron with the ISAAC/VLT spectrograph. We find that the nuclear bars or discs, embedded in large-scale primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Emsellem , D. Greusard , F. Combes , D. Friedli , S. Leon , E. Pecontal , H. Wozniak

The strong time-dependence of the dynamics of galactic bars yields a complex and rapidly evolving distribution of dense gas and star forming regions. Although bars mainly host regions void of any star formation activity, their extremities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Renaud , F. Bournaud , E. Emsellem , O. Agertz , E. Athanassoula , F. Combes , B. Elmegreen , K. Kraljic , F. Motte , R. Teyssier

The supermassive black holes harboured in active galactic nuclei are at the origin of powerful jets which can emit copious amounts of gamma-rays. The exact interplay between the infalling matter, the black hole and the relativistic outflow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Berrie Giebels , Felix Aharonian , Hélène Sol

The onset of gaseous inflows and central activity in interacting galaxies is driven largely by induced bars in the host galaxies. The stability of galaxies against growing bar modes is a direct function of their structural properties ---…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Mihos

In this paper, we study how gaseous dynamical friction (DF) affects the motion of fly-by stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs. We perform 3-body integrations of the interaction of two co-planar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-20 Stanislav DeLaurentiis , Marguerite Epstein-Martin , Zoltan Haiman

Galactic bars are often suspected to be a channel of gas inflow to the galactic center and trigger central star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity. However, the current status on this issue based on empirical studies is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Seulhee Oh , Kyuseok Oh , Sukyoung K. Yi

This paper summarizes the observations which provide the best evidence for the presence of black holes in active galactic nuclei. This includes: X-ray variability; kinematical studies using optical emission lines as well as the distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Greg M. Madejski

The role of gas in the mass assembly at the nuclei of galaxies is still subject to some uncertainty. Stellar nuclear discs bridge the gap between the large-scale galaxy and the central massive objects that reside there. Using a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David R. Cole , Victor P. Debattista , Peter Erwin , Samuel W. F. Earp , Rok Roskar

There is considerable evidence that the circumnuclear regions of galaxies are intimately related to their host galaxies, most directly through their bars. There is also convincing evidence for relations between the properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Johan H. Knapen

Galaxy nuclei are a unique laboratory to study gas flows. High-resolution imaging of the gas flows in galactic nuclei are instrumental in the study of the fueling and the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity in nearby galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Santiago Garcia-Burillo

A wide-spread belief that nested bars enhance gas inflow to the galactic centre has recently been contradicted by dynamical models in which inner bars seem to prohibit such inflow. Can the existing models of dynamically possible double bars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

Bars are considered an efficient mechanism for transporting gas toward the central regions of galaxies, potentially enhancing nuclear activity. However, the extent to which bars influence active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and whether their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 V. Marels , V. Mesa , M. Jaque Arancibia , S. Alonso , G. Coldwell , G. Damke , V. Contreras Rojas

Dynamical evolution of spiral galaxies is strongly dependent on non-axisymmetric patterns that develop from gravitational instabilities, either spontaneously or externally triggered. Some evolutionary sequences are described through which a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

Context. Via scaling relations, it is well-known that active galactic nuclei (AGN) and bulges are linked. This link was thought to be driven by mergers, but recent studies show that secular processes are the dominant mechanism of…

Bar strengths are compared between active and non-active galaxies for a sample of 43 barred galaxies. The relative bar torques are determined using a new technique (Buta and Block 2001), where maximum tangential forces are calculated in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , P. Rautiainen

Aims. With the aim of performing a suitable comparison of the internal process of galactic bars with respect to the external effect of interactions on driving gas toward the inner most region of the galaxies, we explored the efficiency of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Sol Alonso , Georgina Coldwell , Fernanda Duplancic , Valeria Mesa , Diego G. Lambas

The dynamics of galactic nuclei can be affected by several mechanisms. Among these are stellar evolution, stellar collisions, mass segregation, and tidal disruptions of stars due to the central black hole. In this presentation I will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-15 Brian W. Murphy