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20242026
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6 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Formation timescales for stellar bars in diverse galactic discs

Matthew Frosst, Danail Obreschkow, Aaron Ludlow

We study the formation of stellar bars using 145 simulations of disc galaxies embedded in live and static dark matter haloes. We use the exponential bar growth timescale, $τ_{\rm…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Tremaine-Weinberg method at high redshifts

Mahmood Roshan, Asiyeh Habibi, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri +11

This paper examines the reliability of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method in measuring the pattern speed of barred galaxies at high redshifts. Measuring pattern speeds at high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2025

Origins and lifetimes of secular and tidal bars in simulated disc galaxies

Matthew Frosst, Danail Obreschkow, Aaron Ludlow +1

We investigate the formation of stellar bars in 307 Milky Way-mass disc galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Most bars form rapidly in dynamically cold discs shortly afte…

astro-ph.GA2024

Supermassive black hole feedback quenches disc galaxies and suppresses bar formation in TNG50

Matthew Frosst, Danail Obreschkow, Aaron Ludlow +2

We use the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the relationship between black hole feedback, the presence of stellar bars, and star formation quenching in…

astro-ph.GA2024

The active role of co-evolving haloes in stellar bar formation

Matthew Frosst, Danail Obreschkow, Aaron D. Ludlow

We use idealised N-body simulations of equilibrium discs in live and static haloes to study how dark matter co-evolution impacts the assembly of stellar particles into a bar and th…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Nearly Universal Disk Galaxy Rotation Curve

Raj Patel, Nikhil Arora, Stéphane Courteau +3

The Universal Rotation Curve (URC) of disk galaxies was originally proposed to predict the shape and amplitude of any rotation curve (RC) based solely on photometric data. Here, th…