Abstract
Several mechanisms of bar formation in stellar galactic disks are considered, including Toomre swing amplification and normal mode approach. On example of the well-known model of Kuzmin--Toomre using N-body simulations it was shown that the stellar bar is developed as a result of the evolution of an unstable normal mode. The pattern speed and the growth rate found agree well with linear perturbation theory. Nonlinear evolution of the bar is followed. Role of the growing transient spirals in bar formation is discussed.
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