Bar-driven secular evolution largely complete in a disk galaxy 7.6 billion years ago

arXiv:2607.00982 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

Takafumi Tsukui, Zeyu Gao, Emily Wisnioski, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Satoru Iguchi, Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Comments: Submitted. Comments and suggestions are very welcome

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Terminology

• Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dust Attenuation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dawn JWST Archive — 4× in this paper
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks — 2× in this paper
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Cosmic Assembly Nearinfrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey — 1× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Right Ascension — 1× in this paper

Sources

• A nuclear disc at Cosmic Noon: evidence of early bar-driven galaxy evolution
• The exponential growth of infinitesimal perturbations in the long-term evolution of simulated galaxies

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