Dependency of the Bar Formation Timescale on the Halo Spin
Bin-Hui Chen et al 2025 ApJ 994 124 When galactic bars form rapidly, the galaxy’s dark matter halo spin appears to have little impact, but when the process takes longer, halo spin can hasten or delay…
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