Double X/Peanut Structures in Barred Galaxies -- Insights from an $N$--body Simulation

Bogdan C. Ciambur, Francesca Fragkoudi, Sergey Khoperskov +2

Boxy, peanut- or X-shaped "bulges" are observed in a large fraction of barred galaxies viewed in, or close to, edge-on projection, as well as in the Milky Way. They are the product…