Order and Chaos in Spiral Galaxies Seen through their Morphology

2008 ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Grosbøl
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies

scholarly journals Galaxy spin direction distribution in HST and SDSS show similar large-scale asymmetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Gravitational Interaction ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Dipole Axis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Asymmetry

Abstract Several recent observations using large data sets of galaxies showed non-random distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies, even when the galaxies are too far from each other to have gravitational interaction. Here, a data set of $\sim8.7\cdot10^3$ spiral galaxies imaged by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is used to test and profile a possible asymmetry between galaxy spin directions. The asymmetry between galaxies with opposite spin directions is compared to the asymmetry of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The two data sets contain different galaxies at different redshift ranges, and each data set was annotated using a different annotation method. The results show that both data sets show a similar asymmetry in the COSMOS field, which is covered by both telescopes. Fitting the asymmetry of the galaxies to cosine dependence shows a dipole axis with probabilities of $\sim2.8\sigma$ and $\sim7.38\sigma$ in HST and SDSS, respectively. The most likely dipole axis identified in the HST galaxies is at $(\alpha=78^{\rm o},\delta=47^{\rm o})$ and is well within the $1\sigma$ error range compared to the location of the most likely dipole axis in the SDSS galaxies with $z>0.15$ , identified at $(\alpha=71^{\rm o},\delta=61^{\rm o})$ .

The co-responsibility of mass and environment in the formation of lenticular galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (S359) ◽  
pp. 173-174
Author(s):  
A. Cortesi ◽  
L. Coccato ◽  
M. L. Buzzo ◽  
K. Menéndez-Delmestre ◽  
T. Goncalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Method ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Rotation Velocity ◽  
Elliptical Galaxies ◽  
Likelihood Method ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Lenticular Galaxies ◽  
Galaxies Kinematics

AbstractWe present the latest data release of the Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph Survey (PNS) of ten lenticular galaxies and two spiral galaxies. With this data set we are able to recover the galaxies’ kinematics out to several effective radii. We use a maximum likelihood method to decompose the disk and spheroid kinematics and we compare it with the kinematics of spiral and elliptical galaxies. We build the Tully- Fisher (TF) relation for these galaxies and we compare with data from the literature and simulations. We find that the disks of lenticular galaxies are hotter than the disks of spiral galaxies at low redshifts, but still dominated by rotation velocity. The mechanism responsible for the formation of these lenticular galaxies is neither major mergers, nor a gentle quenching driven by stripping or Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback.

scholarly journals DISK-STABILITY CONSTRAINTS ON THE NUMBER OF ARMS IN SPIRAL GALAXIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 808 (1) ◽  
pp. L8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena D’Onghia
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies

scholarly journals Molecular scale height in spiral galaxies

2018 ◽  
Vol 484 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendra Nath Patra
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Scale Height ◽  
Molecular Scale

scholarly journals Influence of Gravitational Lensing on Estimates of Ω in Neutral Hydrogen

1996 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
Matthias Bartelmann ◽  
Abraham Loeb
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Column Density ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Absorption Lines ◽  
Gravitational Lenses ◽  
High Column

A wealth of observational data supports the commonly held view that damped Lyman-α (Lyα) absorption in QSO spectra is associated with neutral-hydrogen (HI) disks in spiral galaxies. Most of the HI probed by QSO absorption lines is traced by damped Lyα lines because of their high column densities, N > 1020 cm–2. The spiral galaxies hosting the HI disks can act as gravitational lenses on the QSOs. If the HI column density increases towards the center of the disks, as suggested by observations of local galaxies, the magnification bias preferentially selects for high column-density systems. The estimates of HI in damped Lyα systems can then systematically be distorted by gravitational lensing.

The tilt of accretion disks in active spiral galaxies

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1089-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne L Kinney
Keyword(s):  
Accretion Disks ◽  
Spiral Galaxies

Thicknesses of 70 southern spiral galaxies

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Ma ◽  
Qiuhe Peng
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies

scholarly journals Near-infrared surface photometry of bulges and disks of spiral galaxies. The data

New Astronomy ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F. Peletier ◽  
M. Balcells
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Surface Photometry

Density waves in the outer disk of spiral galaxies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Bertin ◽  
N. C. Amorisco ◽  
Giuseppe Bertin ◽  
Franca De Luca ◽  
Giuseppe Lodato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Density Waves ◽  
Outer Disk

Ultralong-period Cepheids: a possible primary distance indicator?

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S289) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Fiorentino ◽  
F. Annibali ◽  
G. Clementini ◽  
R. Contreras Ramos ◽  
M. Marconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Hubble Constant ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Evolutionary Status ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Classical Cepheids ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Distance Indicator ◽  
Crucial Test

AbstractWe present a project that aims to provide a complete theoretical and observational framework for an as yet unexplored class of variable stars, the ultralong-period Cepheids (P longer than 80–100 days). Given their very high luminosities (MV up to −7 mag), with the Hubble Space Telescope we will be able to observe them easily in stellar systems located at large distances (~ 100 Mpc). This limit will be further increased, out to the Hubble flow (~ 350 Mpc), using future ground-based facilities such as the European Extremely Large Telescope. The nature of their pulsation is as yet unclear, as is their evolutionary status, which seems different from the central helium-burning phase generally associated with classical Cepheids. These objects have been found to cover a very large metallicity range, from [Fe/H] ~ −2 dex to solar values, and they are located in heterogeneous stellar systems, from dwarf to spiral galaxies. Once completely characterized, they could provide a crucial test, since they have been found in all Type Ia supernova host spiral galaxies that have been monitored for variability over long periods and that currently offer sound constraints on the estimated value of the Hubble constant.

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