activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Role of Inner Halo Angular Momentum (Spin) in Shaping Dark Matter Bars in Milky Way Analogs

Shouvik Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar Kataria

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 si…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Environmental Switch in Black Hole Feeding: Bar-Driven vs. Merger-Driven Growth in IllustrisTNG50

Harsh Uttam, Sandeep Kumar Kataria

The relative roles of secular disc processes and galaxy interactions in driving the growth of supermassive black hole (SMBH) remain unclear. We present a time-resolved, per galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2026

Is Milky Way gravitationally stable? A TNG50 view from cosmic noon to the present day

K. Aditya, Sandeep Kataria

We investigate the stability of Milky Way analogs (MWAs) in the \texttt{TNG50} simulation against the growth of local axisymmetric instabilities, tracing their evolution from cosmi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Can A Kinematically Hot and Thick Disk Form A Bar? : Role of Highly Spinning Dark Matter Halos

Sandeep Kumar Kataria

Recent JWST observations claim the existence of a significant fraction of bars in the kinematically hotter and thicker disk at high redshift Universe. These observations challenge…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dependency of the Bar Formation Timescale On The Halo Spin

Bin-Hui Chen, Sandeep Kumar Kataria, Juntai Shen +1

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 detail…

astro-ph.GA2024

Orbital Support and Evolution of CX/OX Structures in Boxy/Peanut Bars

Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Shashank Dattathri, Monica Valluri +7

Barred galaxies exhibit boxy/peanut or X-shapes (BP/X) protruding from their disks in edge-on views. Two types of BP/X morphologies exist depending on whether the X-wings meet at t…