Bar dissolution in non-spherical halos |
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| Authors: | Makoto Ideta |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Dynamical evolution of N-body bars embedded in spherical and prolate dark matter halos is investigated. In particular, the configuration such that
galactic disks are placed in the plane perpendicular to the equatorial plane of the prolate halos is considered. Such a configuration
is frequently found in cosmological simulations. N-body disks embedded in a fixed external halo potential were simulated, so that the barred structure was formed via dynamical
instability in initially cool disks. In the subsequent evolution, bars in prolate halos dissolved gradually with time, while
the bar pattern in spherical halos remained almost unchanged until the end of simulations. The e-folding time of bars suggest
that they could be destroyed in a time smaller than a Hubble time.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies: evolution galaxies: structure methods: n-bodysimulations |
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