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Probe of dark galaxies via disturbed/ lopsided isolated galaxies

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Searching for lopsided/interacting objects among ~1500 isolated galaxies yields only eight strongly disturbed galaxies which may be explained as a result of their interaction with massive dark objects. We present results of spectral and photometric observations of these galaxies performed with the 6-m telescope that lead to significant restriction on cosmic abundance of dark galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.0708.1046,
  title  = {Probe of dark galaxies via disturbed/ lopsided isolated galaxies},
  author = {Igor D. Karachentsev and Valentina E. Karachentseva and Walter K. Huchtmeier and Dmitry I. Makarov and Serafim S. Kaisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1046},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in proceedings IAU Symp 244, 'Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons', June 2007