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We provide the first quantitative evidence for the deceleration of the Galactic bar from local stellar kinematics in agreement with dynamical friction by a typical dark matter halo. The kinematic response of the stellar disk to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Rimpei Chiba , Jennifer K. S. Friske , Ralph Schönrich

In this review, I discuss just three aspects of the stability and evolution of galactic discs. (1) I first review our understanding of the bar instability and how it can be controlled. Disc galaxies in which the orbital speed does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Sellwood

We review general observational properties of bars in galaxies, and relations between bars, their dynamics, and (circum)nuclear activity. We consider new measurements of bar fractions and of the distribution of bars with host type, bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Johan H. Knapen

We investigate gas dynamics in the presence of a double inner Lindblad resonance within a barred disk galaxy. Using an example of a prominent spiral, M100, we reproduce the basic central morphology, including four dominant regions of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Isaac Shlosman

The second data release of the Gaia mission has revealed a very rich structure in local velocity space. In terms of in-plane motions, this rich structure is also seen as multiple ridges in the actions of the axisymmetric background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Christopher Wegg , Ortwin Gerhard

We analyze formation of grand-design two-arm spiral structure in the nuclear regions of disk galaxies. Such morphology has been recently detected in a number of objects using high-resolution near-infrared observations. Motivated by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Englmaier , Isaac Shlosman

We use $N$-body simulations to investigate the distinct bar formation processes in disks residing in halos of various concentrations. In a highly concentrated halo, the bar development is limited by the dominant multi-arm modes as a result…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 T. Worrakitpoonpon

The presence of dark gaps, a preferential light deficit along the bar minor axis, is observationally well known. The properties of dark gaps are thought to be associated with the properties of bars, and their spatial locations are often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-24 Soumavo Ghosh , Dimitri A. Gadotti , Francesca Fragkoudi , Vighnesh Nagpal , Paola Di Matteo , Virginia Cuomo

Context: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Douglas A. Barros , Jacques R. D. Lépine

Isolated barred galaxies evolve by redistributing their angular momentum, which, emitted by material in the inner disc at resonance with the bar, can be absorbed by resonant material in the outer disc, or in the halo. The amount of angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Athanassoula

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

Only through resonances can non-axisymmetric features such as spiral arms and bars exert torques over large scales and change the overall structure of a near-equilibrium galaxy. We describe the resonant interaction mechanism in detail and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

The most important theory of the spiral arms of galaxies is the density wave theory based on the Lin-Shu dispersion relation. However, the density waves move with the group velocity towards the inner Lindblad resonance and tend to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 George Contopoulos

Bars may induce morphological features, such as rings, through their resonances. Previous studies suggested that the presence of 'dark-gaps', or regions of a galaxy where the difference between the surface brightness along the bar major…

A significant fraction of local galaxies exhibit stellar bars, non-axisymmetric structures composed of stars, gas, and dust. Identifying key differences between the properties of barred and unbarred galaxies can uncover clues about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Paula D. López , Cecilia Scannapieco , Sofía A. Cora , Ignacio D. Gargiulo

Elongated bar-like features are ubiquitous in galaxies, occurring at the centers of approximately two-thirds of spiral disks in the nearby Universe. Due to gravitational interactions between the bar and the other components of galaxies, it…

We argue that inner rings in barred spiral galaxies are associated with specific 2D and 3D families of periodic orbits located just beyond the end of the bar. These are families located between the inner radial ultraharmonic 4:1 resonance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. A. Patsis , Ch. Skokos , E. Athanassoula

Barred galaxies constitute about two thirds of observed disc galaxies. Bars affect not only the mass distribution of gas and stars, but also that of the dark matter. An elongation of the inner dark matter halo is known as the halo bar. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-28 Daniel A. Marostica , Rubens E. G. Machado , E. Athanassoula , T. Manos

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 Galactic disk exhibits complex chemical and dynamical substructure thought to be induced by the bar, spiral arms, and satellites. Here, we explore the chemical signatures of bar resonances in action and velocity space and characterize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-11 Adam Wheeler , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Wilma H. Trick , Francesca Fragkoudi , Melissa Ness