Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 512, Issue 1, Pages 160-185Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac494
Keywords
methods: data analysis; galaxies: bulges; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: structure
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Funding
- Genci [A0020407637, A0070402192, c2016047637]
- KISTI [KSC-2017-G2-0003]
- GENCI on the AMD Rome extension of the Joliot Curie supercomputer at TGCC
- ANR Segal [ANR-19-CE31-0017]
- DEEPDIP project [ANR-19-CE31-0023]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Consolidated Grant
- Korean National Research Foundation [NRF-2020R1A2C3003769]
- Yonsei University Research Fund (Yonsei Frontier Lab)
- Young Researcher Supporting Program of 2021
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-19-CE31-0017, ANR-19-CE31-0023] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [4120200513819, 00000001] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We used the NEWHORIZON simulation to study the redshift evolution of bar properties and fractions within galaxies. The simulation reveals a missing bars problem in cosmological simulations, with a low bar fraction in Milky Way-like progenitors. The analysis suggests that low mass galaxies are dominated by dark matter and have difficulty forming bars, while more massive galaxies have large bulges preventing bar persistence at low redshift. This investigation confirms that the bar fraction evolution provides stringent constraints on the assembly history of baryons and dark matter onto galaxies.
We use the NEWHORIZON simulation to study the redshift evolution of bar properties and fractions within galaxies in the stellar masses range M-star = 10(7.25)-10(11.4) M-circle dot over the redshift range of z = 0.25-1.3. We select disc galaxies using stellar kinematics as a proxy for galaxy morphology. We employ two different automated bar detection methods, coupled with visual inspection, resulting in observable bar fractions of f(bar) = 0.070(-0.012)(+0.018) at z similar to 1.3, decreasing to f(bar) = 0.011(-0.003)(+0.014) at z similar to 0.25. Only one galaxy is visually confirmed as strongly barred in our sample. This bar is hosted by the most massive disc and only survives from z = 1.3 down to z = 0.7. Such a low bar fraction, in particular amongst Milky Way-like progenitors, highlights a missing bars problem, shared by literally all cosmological simulations with spatial resolution <100 pc to date. The analysis of linear growth rates, rotation curves, and derived summary statistics of the stellar, gas and dark matter components suggest that galaxies with stellar masses below 10(9.5)-10(10) M-circle dot in NEWHORIZON appear to be too dominated by dark matter relative to stellar content to form a bar, while more massive galaxies typically have formed large bulges that prevent bar persistence at low redshift. This investigation confirms that the evolution of the bar fraction puts stringent constraints on the assembly history of baryons and dark matter on to galaxies.
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