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TAPIR Seminar

Friday, January 27, 2023
2:00pm to 3:56pm
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Online and In-Person Event
The Next Generation of Barred-Galaxies
Steven Gough-Kelly, Graduate Student, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire,

In person: 370 Cahill -- Attendees joining in person must have a valid Caltech UID.

To Join via Zoom: 864 8902 5566

ABSTRACT: Simulations of barred galaxies give us insights into bar-driven secular evolution that separates stellar populations spatially and kinematically but requires sufficient resolution to realistically resolve bars and their dynamics. Cosmological volume simulations, from which we can obtain a large sample of self-consistent barred galaxies, are now reaching resolutions where such processes reproduce observed trends within the bulge regions of galaxies in the local universe. I will present our results from the high-resolution run of the IllustrisTNG simulation, TNG50, where we explore a generalized understanding of bar-driven secular evolution in a cosmological setting and compare our findings with theory, isolated models and observations.

For more information, please contact JoAnn Boyd by phone at 626-395-4280 or by email at joann@caltech.edu.