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Theoretical Summary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. H. Miller
R. H. Miller*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Astronomy Center, 5640 Ellis, Chicago 60637

Abstract

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Why do so many galaxies have bars? Why are bars so rugged? These questions, vital to understanding barred galaxies, have not been addressed in this Conference.

Numerical studies seem to have replaced analytic theory. But the bars in numerical studies may not be good models of real galaxies.

Type
Part X. Conference Summaries
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 157: Barred Galaxies , 1996 , pp. 569 - 574
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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