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The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

The near proportionality between HI and dark matter in outer galactic disks prompted us to run N-body simulations of galactic disks in which the observed gas content is supplemented by a dark gas component representing between zero and five…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-30 Y. Revaz , D. Pfenniger , F. Combes , F. Bournaud

We employ high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations to analyze the emerging morphology of galaxies in dark matter halos at redshifts z > 2. We choose DM halos of similar masses of log (Mvir/Mo) ~11.65 +- 0.05 at the target redshifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

We test the effect of assumptions about stellar motion on the behavior of gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks around solar-type stars by performing two simulations that are identical in all respects except the treatment of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Scott Michael , R. H. Durisen

We compiled a sample of $1155$ protoplanetary disks, combining data from ten surveys of star-forming regions. Based on the sample, we constructed a power-law approximation of the disk mass distribution: $dN/dM \propto M^{-\beta}$, $\beta =…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sophia A. Drobchik , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

Using recent observational data, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of the disk of a Milky Way-like galaxy. The disk dynamics are studied using collisionless-gaseous numerical simulations, based on the joined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-10 Sergey Khrapov , Alexander Khoperskov , Vladimir Korchagin

A self-gravitating, differentially rotating galactic disc under vertical hydrostatic equilibrium is supported by the vertical pressure gradient force against the gravitational collapse. Such discs are known to support various bending modes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-13 Sagar S. Goyary , Kanak Saha , H. Shanjit Singh , Suchira Sarkar

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 investigate the formation and evolution of nested bar systems in disk galaxies in a cosmological setting by following the development of an isolated dark matter (DM) and baryon density perturbation. The disks form within the assembling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Lia Athanassoula

Based on N-body simulations, we show that realistic galactic disks are subject to bending instabilities of fire-hose type when the disks are substantially self-gravitating, that is, if they contain dark matter distributed in the disk.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Revaz , D. Pfenniger

Aims: To study the imprints of a rotating bar on the kinematics of stars in the thin and thick disks throughout the Galaxy. Methods: We perform test particle numerical simulations of the thin and thick disks in a 3D Galactic potential that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-25 Giacomo Monari , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi

It has been believed that spirals in pure stellar disks, especially the ones spontaneously formed, decay in several galactic rotations due to the increase of stellar velocity dispersions. Therefore, some cooling mechanism, for example…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 M. S. Fujii , J. Baba , T. R. Saitoh , J. Makino , E. Kokubo , K. Wada

It is well-established that strong bars rotating in dense halos generally slow down as they lose angular momentum to the halo through dynamical friction. Angular momentum exchanges between the bar and halo particles take place at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

We examine the evolution of the Parker instability in galactic disks using 3D numerical simulations. We consider a local Cartesian box section of a galactic disk, where gas, magnetic fields and cosmic rays are all initially in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov , Paul J. Bushby , Andrew Fletcher

Disk galaxies can exchange angular momentum and baryons with their host dark matter (DM) halos. These halos possess internal spin, `lambda', which is insignificant rotationally but does affect interactions between the baryonic and DM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Angela Collier , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller

We study formation and evolution of bar-disk systems in fully self-consistent cosmological simulations of galaxy formation in the LCDM WMAP3 Universe. In a representative model we find that the first generation of bars form in response to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emilio Romano-Diaz , Isaac Shlosman , Clayton Heller , Yehuda Hoffman

We draw attention to the bright galaxies that do not show a bar in their structure but have a flocculent spiral structure. Using the THINGS' and HERACLES' kinematic data for four barless galaxies (NGC~2841, NGC~3512, NGC~5055, NGC~7331) we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 Daria Zakharova , Natalia Ya. Sotnikova , Anton A. Smirnov , Sergey S. Savchenko

The formation and stability of collisionless self-gravitating systems are long standing problems, which date back to the work of D. Lynden-Bell on violent relaxation and extends to the issue of virialization of dark matter (DM) halos. An…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-07 Carlos R. Argüelles , Manuel I. Díaz , Andreas Krut , Rafael Yunis

Most of the visible mass in a typical spiral galaxy is distributed in a thin disk, with a radial extent much larger than its thickness. While the planar disk structure, including non-axisymmetric features such as spiral structure, has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Chanda J. Jog