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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
To investigate bar destruction by a vertical head-on galaxy encounter, the dynamical evolution after the instantaneous momentum change of the impulsive approximation of a vertical head-on galaxy encounter, and the instability of finite amplitude one-armed perturbations to barred structure, are investigated by 2-dimensional N-body simulations.
Preliminary results show that off-center vertical head-on collisions induce bar destruction but collisions in which the colliding galaxy passes through the very center of the target galaxy do not induce bar destruction.