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The Response of the Inner Dark Matter Halo to Stellar Bars

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Barred galaxies constitute about two-thirds of observed disc galaxies. Bars affect not only the mass distribution of gas and stars but also that of the dark matter. An elongation of the inner dark matter halo is known as the halo bar. We aim to characterize the structure of the halo bars, with the goal of correlating them with the properties of the stellar bars. We use a suite of simulated galaxies with various bar strengths, including gas and star formation. We quantify the strengths, shapes, and densities of these simulated stellar bars. We carry out numerical experiments with frozen and analytic potentials in order to understand the role played by a live responsive stellar bar. We find that the halo bar generally follows the trends of the disc bar. The strengths of the halo and stellar bars are tightly correlated. Stronger bars induce a slight increase in dark matter density within the inner halo. Numerical experiments show that a non-responsive frozen stellar bar would be capable of inducing a dark matter bar, but it would be weaker than the live case by a factor of roughly two
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hal-04590490 , version 1 (28-05-2024)

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Daniel A Marostica, Rubens E G Machado, Evangelie Athanassoula, Thanos E. Manos. The Response of the Inner Dark Matter Halo to Stellar Bars. Galaxies, 2024, 12 (3), pp.27. ⟨10.3390/galaxies12030027⟩. ⟨hal-04590490⟩
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