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1 June 2012

Stellar Disks in Aquarius Dark Matter Haloes

Authors: DeBuhr et al (2012)
Paper: here

The paper (Stellar Disks in Aquarius Dark Matter Haloes) shows results for stellar-bar formation in 4 Milky-Way-size dark matter haloes of the Aquarius project. The find that (i) the presence of a stellar component in the center of the haloes induces inner-halo contraction; (ii) 3/4 of the disks form a central bar; (iii) almost all of them experience a buckling instability with a boost of the stellar vertical velocity dispersion; (iv) when mass is reduced by at least a factor 2 no bar is formed; (v) re-orientation of the central part of the disk and halo determines warp formation.

There is not much new: just usual stellar dynamics analysis on the new Aquarius haloes.

Similar results about warps and bars might be reproduced by different phenomena (e.g. infalling satellite galaxies; dark-matter substructures; cold gas clumps; etc.)

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