Spatial Orientation of Spin Vectors of Blue-shifted Galaxies
Abstract
We present the analysis of the spin vector orientation of 5987 SDSS galaxies having negative redshift from 87.6 to 0.3 kms. Two dimensional observed parameters are used to compute three dimensional galaxy rotation axes by applying `position angle--inclination' method. We aim to examine the non-random effects in the spatial orientation of blue-shifted galaxies. We generate 510 virtual galaxies to find expected isotropic distributions by performing numerical simulations. We have written MATLAB program to facilitate the simulation process and eliminate the manual errors in the process. Chi-square, auto-correlation, and the Fourier tests are used to examine non-random effects in the polar and azimuthal angle distributions of the galaxy rotation axes. In general, blue-shifted galaxies show no preferred alignments of galaxy rotation axes. Our results support Hierarchy model, which suggests a random orientation of angular momentum vectors of galaxies. However, local effects are noted suggesting gravitational tidal interaction between neighboring galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.1606.02881,
title = {Spatial Orientation of Spin Vectors of Blue-shifted Galaxies},
author = {S. N. Yadav and B. Aryal and W. Saurer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02881},
year = {2016}
}
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7 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Ap&SS