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We demonstrate that growth of stellar bars in spinning dark matter halos is heavily suppressed in the secular phase of evolution, using numerical simulations of isolated galaxies. In a representative set of models, we show that for values…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Stacy Long , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

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

Bars are among the most prominent structures in disk galaxies. While the widely accepted swing-amplification theory provides a qualitative framework for their formation, the detailed physical processes remain incompletely understood.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-07 Bin-Hui Chen , Sandeep Kumar Kataria , Juntai Shen , Meng Guo

Cosmological N-body simulations indicate that the dark matter haloes of galaxies should be generally triaxial. Yet, the presence of a baryonic disc is believed to alter the shape of the haloes. Here we aim to study how bar formation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Rubens E. G. Machado , E. Athanassoula

This is the third of a series of papers presenting the first attempt to analyze the growth of the bar instability in a consistent cosmological scenario. In the previous two articles we explored the role of the cosmology on stellar disks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Curir , Paola Mazzei , Giuseppe Murante

We describe fully self-consistent N-body experiments of barred galaxies with massive halos. A rotating bar is braked through dynamical friction with the halo, which occurs on a short time scale when the central density of the halo is high.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

We use high-resolution numerical simulations to follow the barred disk evolution in a suite of models with progressively more massive stellar bulges, with bulge-to-total (disk$+$bulge) mass ratios of $B/T\sim 0-0.25$, embedded in dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Daniel Pfenniger , Clayton Heller

We report idealized simulations that mimic the growth of galaxy disks embedded in responsive halos and bulges. The disks manifested an almost overwhelming tendency to form strong bars that we found very difficult to prevent. We found that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Joel C. Berrier , J. A. Sellwood

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

We show that bars in galaxy models having halos of moderate density and a variety of velocity distributions all experience a strong drag from dynamical friction unless the halo has large angular momentum in the same sense as the disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

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

Evolution of stellar bars in disk galaxies is accompanied by dynamical instabilities and secular changes. Following the vertical buckling instability, the bars are known to weaken dramatically and develop a pronounced boxy/peanut shape when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Inma Martinez-Valpuesta , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

The growth-rate and the internal dynamics of galaxy-sized dark-matter haloes depend on their location within the cosmic web. Haloes that sit at the nodes grow in mass till the present time and are dominated by radial orbits. Conversely,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Emilio Romano-Diaz , Enrico Garaldi , Mikolaj Borzyszkowski , Cristiano Porciani

We have studied the dark matter (DM) distribution in a approx 10^12 h^-1 M_sun mass halo extracted from a simulation consistent with the concordance cosmology, where the physics regulating the transformation of gas into stars was allowed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

We investigate the influence of the external tidal field of a dark matter halo on the dynamical evolution of star clusters using direct N-body simulations, where we assume that the halo is described by a Navarro, Frenk & White mass profile…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 A. K. Praagman , J. R. Hurley , C. Power

Studies of galactic bars have primarily focused on stellar bars, since they can be directly observed through ultraviolet to infrared wavebands. Cosmological as well as idealised simulations reveal that the dark matter (DM) haloes interact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Shouvik Ghosh , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

While bars are common in disk galaxies, their formation conditions are not well understood. We use $N$-body simulations to study bar formation and evolution in isolated galaxies consisting of a stellar disk, a classical bulge, and a dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Dajeong Jang , Woong-Tae Kim

Using N-body simulations, we examine the impact of dark matter (DM) halo resolution and gravitational softening on bar formation. We generate isolated disk-halo systems with fixed stellar disk parameters, varying the number of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 S. Kwak , I. Minchev , M. Steinmetz , S. K. Yi

We analyze the evolution of stellar bars in galactic disks in mildly triaxial flat-core and cuspy CDM halos. We use tailored simulations of rigid and live halos which include the feedback from disk/bar onto the halo in order to test the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ingo Berentzen , Isaac Shlosman , Shardha Jogee