Search Results - "DeBattista, Victor P"
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Revealing the cosmic evolution of boxy/peanut-shaped bulges from HST COSMOS and SDSS
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT Vertically thickened bars, observed in the form of boxy/peanut (B/P) bulges, are found in the majority of massive barred disc galaxies in the local…”
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The MUSE Atlas of Disks (MAD): resolving star formation rates and gas metallicities on <100 pc scales
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2019)“…Abstract We study the physical properties of the ionized gas in local discs using the sample of 38 nearby ∼108.5–11.2 M⊙ Star-Forming Main-Sequence (SFMS)…”
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A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ORBITAL STRUCTURE OF BARS AND TRIAXIAL ELLIPSOIDS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT We examine a large random sample of orbits in two self-consistent simulations of N-body bars. Orbits in these bars are classified both visually and…”
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Box/peanut-shaped bulges in action space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2020)“…ABSTRACT We introduce the study of box/peanut (B/P) bulges in the action space of the initial axisymmetric system. We explore where populations with different…”
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Riding the Spiral Waves: Implications of Stellar Migration for the Properties of Galactic Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2008)“…Stars in disks of spiral galaxies are usually assumed to remain roughly at their birth radii. This assumption is built into decades of modeling of the…”
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The COMBS Survey – III. The chemodynamical origins of metal-poor bulge stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2022)“…ABSTRACT The characteristics of the stellar populations in the Galactic bulge inform and constrain the Milky Way’s formation and evolution. The metal-poor…”
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THE GENESIS OF THE MILKY WAY'S THICK DISK VIA STELLAR MIGRATION
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2011)“…We compare the spatial, kinematic, and metallicity distributions of stars in the Milky Way disk, as observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and…”
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Early-growing Supermassive Black Holes Strengthen Bars and Boxy/Peanut Bulges
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Using N -body simulations, we explore the effects of growing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) prior to or during the formation of a stellar bar…”
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MEASURING THE MASS OF THE CENTRAL BLACK HOLE IN THE BULGELESS GALAXY NGC 4395 FROM GAS DYNAMICAL MODELING
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2015)“…ABSTRACT NGC 4395 is a bulgeless spiral galaxy, harboring one of the nearest known type 1 Seyfert nuclei. Although there is no consensus on the mass of its…”
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The structure behind the Galactic bar traced by red clump stars in the VVV survey
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-11-2018)“…ABSTRACT Red clump stars are commonly used to map the reddening and morphology of the inner regions of the Milky Way. We use the new photometric catalogues of…”
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Exploring the Evolution of Massive Clumps in Simulations That Reproduce the Observed Milky Way α-element Abundance Bimodality
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2023)“…Abstract The Milky Way (MW) stellar disk has both a thin and a thick component. The thin disk is composed mostly of younger stars (≲8 Gyr) with a lower…”
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A New Channel of Bulge Formation via the Destruction of Short Bars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2020)“…Short (inner) bars of subkiloparsec radius have been hypothesized to be an important mechanism for driving gas inflows to small scales, thus feeding central…”
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Orbital Support and Evolution of Flat Profiles of Bars (Shoulders)
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2023)“…Abstract Many barred galaxies exhibit upturns (shoulders) in their bar-major-axis density profile. Simulation studies have suggested that shoulders are…”
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Constraining the role of star cluster mergers in nuclear cluster formation: simulations confront integral-field data
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2011)“…We present observations and dynamical models of the stellar nuclear clusters (NCs) at the centres of NGC 4244 and M33. We then compare these to an extensive…”
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Beta Dips in the Gaia Era: Simulation Predictions of the Galactic Velocity Anisotropy Parameter (β) for Stellar Halos
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2018)“…The velocity anisotropy parameter, β, is a measure of the kinematic state of orbits in the stellar halo, which holds promise for constraining the merger…”
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How Nested Bars Enhance, Modulate, and Are Destroyed by Gas Inflows
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2023)“…Abstract Gas flows in the presence of two independently rotating nested bars remain not fully understood but are likely to play an important role in fueling…”
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Beyond Inside-Out Growth: Formation and Evolution of Disk Outskirts
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2008)“…We have performed a high mass and force resolution simulation of an idealized galaxy forming from dissipational collapse of gas embedded in a spherical dark…”
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Cold Dark Matter Substructure and Galactic Disks. II. Dynamical Effects of Hierarchical Satellite Accretion
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The Causes of Halo Shape Changes Induced by Cooling Baryons: Disks versus Substructures
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2008)“…Cold dark matter cosmogony predicts triaxial dark matter halos, whereas observations find quite round halos. This is most likely due to the condensation of…”
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The Secular Evolution of Disk Structural Parameters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2006)“…We present a comprehensive series of simulations to study the secular evolution of disk galaxies expected in a CDM universe. Our simulations are organized in a…”
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