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Spatial Orientation of Spin Vectors of Blue-shifted Galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-06-10 v1

Abstract

We present the analysis of the spin vector orientation of 5\,987 SDSS galaxies having negative redshift from -87.6 to -0.3 km\,s1^{-1}. 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 5×\times106^6 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