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We address the problem of the influence of large-scale magnetic fields on galactic rotation for the example of the spiral galaxy NGC 891. Based on its rotation curve and the surface density of HI we determine, in the framework of the global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-06 Joanna Jałocha , Łukasz Bratek , Jan Pȩkala , Marek Kutschera

We compare 850um SCUBA images of NGC 891 with the corresponding V-band optical depth predicted from radiation transfer simulations. These two tracers of dust show a very similar distribution along the minor axis and a reasonable agreement…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. B. Alton , E. M. Xilouris , S. Bianchi , J. Davies , N. Kylafis

We suggest a possible mechanism of ultra diffuse galaxy formation: the UDGs may occur as a result of a central collision of galaxies. If the galaxies are young and contain a lot of gas, the collision may kick all the gas off the systems and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Anton N. Baushev

Galaxy harassment is an important mechanism for the morphological evolution of galaxies in clusters. The spiral galaxy NGC 4254 in the Virgo cluster is believed to be a harassed galaxy. We have analyzed the power spectrum of HI emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Prasun Dutta , Ayesha Begum , Somnath Bharadwaj , Jayaram N. Chengalur

We present an investigation of galaxy-galaxy interactions and their effects on the velocity fields of disc galaxies in combined N-body/hydrodynamic simulations, which include cooling, star formation with feedback, and galactic winds.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Kronberger , W. Kapferer , S. Schindler , A. Boehm , E. Kutdemir , B. L. Ziegler

We study the prospects of detecting magnetic helicity in galaxies by observing the dust polarization of the edge-on galaxy NGC 891. Our numerical results of mean-field dynamo calculations show that there should be a large-scale component of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Axel Brandenburg , Ray S. Furuya

Disturbed spiral galaxies with high rates of star formation pervaded clusters of galaxies just a few billion years ago, but nearby clusters exclude spirals in favor of ellipticals. ``Galaxy harassment" (frequent high speed galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ben Moore , Neal Katz , George Lake , Alan Dressler , Augustus Oemler

Disc galaxies can be substantially modified by close encounters and mergers, since their discs are very responsive components. Close interactions can be held responsible for the formation of bridges and tails, as well as for the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

We present numerical hydrodynamical models of the collision between the galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207. These models extend the results of earlier work where the galaxy discs were modeled one at a time. We confirm the general result that the…

We discuss the problem of using stellar kinematics of early-type galaxies to constrain the galaxies' orbital anisotropies and radial mass profiles. We demonstrate that compressing a galaxy's light distribution along the line of sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Magorrian , David Ballantyne

We present the results of a survey of nearby, quiescent, non-peculiar, extremely isolated galaxies to search for the gaseous remnants of galaxy formation. Such remnants are predicted to persist around galaxies into the present day by galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Pisano , Eric M. Wilcots

We study the shapes of spatially integrated H I emission-line profiles of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation using three separate measures of the profile's asymmetry. We show that the subset of EAGLE galaxies whose gas fractions and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-30 Aditya Manuwal , Aaron D. Ludlow , Adam R. H. Stevens , Ruby J. Wright , Aaron S. G. Robotham

We investigate the three-dimensional structure of the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891 using 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer models, with realistic spiral structure and fractally clumped dust. Using the spiral and clumpiness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrew Schechtman-Rook , Matthew A. Bershady , Kenneth Wood , Thomas P. Robitaille

Axisymmetric disks of eccentric orbits in near-Keplerian potentials are unstable to an out-of-plane buckling. Recently, Zderic et al. (2020) showed that an idealized disk saturates to a lopsided mode. Here we show that this apsidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Alexander Zderic , Maria Tiongco , Angela Collier , Heather Wernke , Aleksey Generozov , Ann-Marie Madigan

Observations of edge-on galaxies allow us to investigate the vertical extent and properties of dust, gas and stellar distributions. NGC 891 has been studied for decades and represents one of the best studied cases of an edge-on galaxy. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-25 M. Bocchio , S. Bianchi , L. K. Hunt , R. Schneider

Galaxy filaments are a peculiar environment, and their impact on the galaxy properties is still controversial. Exploiting the data from the GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE (GASP), we provide the first characterisation of the…

We measure the non-axisymmetry in the luminosity distribution in the central few kpc of a sample of advanced mergers of galaxies, by analyzing their 2MASS images. All mergers show a high central asymmetry: the centres of isophotes show a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chanda J. Jog , Aparna Maybhate

Giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) with dynamically cold stellar discs reaching the radius of 130 kpc challenge currently considered galaxy formation mechanisms. We analyse new deep long-slit optical spectroscopic observations,…