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astro-ph2002★ 80 cited
Bars and Dark Matter Halo Cores
J. A. Sellwood
Self-consistent bars that form in galaxies embedded within cuspy halos are unable to flatten the cusp. Short bars form in models with quasi-flat rotation curves. They lose angular…
astro-ph2002
Scattering of Stars by Transient Spiral Waves
J. A. Sellwood, Miguel Preto
Transient spiral waves of moderate amplitude cause substantial changes to the angular momenta of many stars in a galaxy disk. Stars near to corotation are affected most strongly: f…
astro-ph2002★ 1.1k cited
Radial Mixing in Galactic Discs
J A Sellwood, J J Binney
We show that spiral waves in galaxy discs churn the stars and gas in a manner that largely preserves the overall angular momentum distribution and leads to little increase in rando…