Nuclear Stellar Disks in Spiral Galaxies
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We report evidence for nuclear stellar disks in 3 early-type spirals, namely NGC 1425, NGC 3898 and NGC 4698, revealed by WFPC2/F606W images out of a sample of 38 spiral galaxies, selected from the Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive. Adopting the photometric method introduced by Scorza & Bender we derived their central surface brightness and scalelength by assuming them to be infinitesimally thin exponential disks. No nuclear disk was found in barred galaxies or galaxies of Hubble type later than Sb. The external origin of the disk in NGC 4698 is strongly suggested by its orthogonal geometrical decoupling with respect to the host galaxy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203038,
title = {Nuclear Stellar Disks in Spiral Galaxies},
author = {A. Pizzella and E. M. Corsini and L. Morelli and M. Sarzi and C. Scarlata and M. Stiavelli and F. Bertola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203038},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 5 PostScript figures. Accepted for pubblication in ApJ