Disc instabilities and semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation

Aug, 2008
4 pages
Published in:
  • Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 390 (2008) 69
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The Efstathiou, Lake and Negroponte (1982) criterion can not distinguish bar stable from bar unstable discs and thus should not be used in semi-analytic galaxy formation simulations. I discuss the reasons for this, illustrate it with examples and point out shortcomings in the recipes used for spheroid formation. I propose an alternative, although much less straightforward, possibility.