Disc instabilities and semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation

Abstract

The Efstathiou, Lake and Negroponte (1982) criterion can not distinguish bar stable from bar unstable discs and thus should not be used in semi-analytic galaxy formation simulations. I discuss the reasons for this, illustrate it with examples and point out shortcomings in the recipes used for spheroid formation. I propose an alternative, although much less straightforward, possibility.

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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