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Why (inner) bars are important but not sufficient

Eric Emsellem

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0404475

Abstract

I briefly report on the work conducted to probe the gravitational potential of active and non-active disk galaxies using two-dimensional gas and stellar kinematics, first emphasizing the need to make a distinction between ''fuelling the nucleus'' and ''building a gas reservoir''.

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