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Berentzen, I.; Shlosman, I.; Martínez-Valpuesta, I.; Heller, C. H.
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Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.382
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We have analyzed the effects of gas on the disk-halo evolution in barred
galaxies using N-body/SPH simulations. Our main focus has been the
angular momentum (J)~redistribution mediated by the stellar bar and the
subsequent evolution of the galactic disk. We find that the stellar bars
in disks with 0-8 percent gas fraction are primarily affected by the
growth of a central mass concentration owing to the bar-driven gas
inflow to the center. The almost abrupt weakening of the bars observed
in all models is triggered either by vertical buckling (in gas-poor
disks)~or by resonance heating (in gas-rich disks). The dark matter halo
serves as the angular momentum sink for the stellar bar, thus
compensating it for the angular momentum received from the gas.