Most Real Bars are Not Made by the Bar Instability

Details Most Real Bars are Not Made by the Bar Instability Most Real Bars are Not Made by the Bar Instability

1999-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909489v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in "Galaxy Dynamics from the Early Universe to the Present" eds. F. Combes, G. Mamon & V. Charmandaris, 4 pages, no

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Having once thought that we understood how some galaxies were barred and had difficulty accounting for the absence of bars in others, it now seems that we have the opposite problem. Most real galaxies have centres dense enough to inhibit bar formation, even if they have massive discs. This is also true for barred galaxies, which therefore could not have acquired their bars as a result of a self-excited, global instability. There is a hint from the morphology of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Fields that the growth of bars might be a slow or secular process. Here I discuss possible mechanisms that could form bars long after the disc is assembled.

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