Vaulting the barrier: An intrinsic mechanism to fuel the gas beyond the nuclear ring into the central region of barred galaxies

Kotaro Kobayashi, Naomichi Yutani, Takayuki R. Saitoh +2

Gas delivery to galactic centers powers nuclear starbursts and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), yet bar-driven inflow is generally expected to stall in a nuclear ring a few hundred p…