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Large-scale asymmetries (i.e. lopsidedness) are a common feature in the stellar density distribution of nearby disk galaxies both in low- and high-density environments. In this work, we characterize the present-day lopsidedness in a sample…

Lopsided galaxies are late-type galaxies with a non-axisymmetric disk due to an uneven distribution of their stellar mass. Despite being a relatively common perturbation, several questions regarding its origin and the information that can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Valentina Fontirroig , Facundo A. Gomez , Marcelo Jaque Arancibia , Arianna Dolfi , Nicolas Monsalves

Current studies of large-scale asymmetries (i.e. lopsidedness) in the stellar density distribution of disk galaxies have mainly focused on the local Universe. Recent observations have found a significant fraction (over 60%) of lopsided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Arianna Dolfi , Facundo A. Gomez , Antonela Monachesi , Patricia B. Tissera , Cristobal Sifon , Gaspar Galaz

A significant fraction of nearby late-type galaxies are lopsided. We study the asymmetry of the stellar component in a sample of well-resolved disky galaxies selected from the last snapshot of the Illustris TNG100 simulation based on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Ewa L. Lokas

Disc galaxies commonly show asymmetric features in their morphology, such as warps and lopsidedness. These features can provide key information regarding the recent evolution of a given disc galaxy. In the nearby Universe, up to $\sim30$…

The light distribution in the disks of many galaxies is non-axisymmetric or `lopsided' with a spatial extent much larger along one half of a galaxy than the other, as in M101. Recent near-IR observations show that lopsidedness is common.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chanda J. Jog , Francoise Combes

We quantify the degree of lopsidedness for a sample of 149 galaxies observed in the near-infrared from the OSUBGS sample, and try to explain the physical origin for the observed disk lopsidedness. We confirm previous studies, but now for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Bournaud , F. Combes , C. J. Jog , I. Puerari

We have used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to undertake an investigation of lopsidedness in a sample of ~25,000 nearby galaxies (z < 0.06). We use the m=1 azimuthal Fourier mode between the 50% and 90% light radii as our measure of…

We study the m=1 distortions (lopsidedness) in the stellar components of 167 nearby galaxies that span a wide range of morphologies and luminosities. We confirm the previous findings of 1) a high incidence of lopsidedness in the stellar…

Warped structures are often observed in disk galaxies, yet their physical origin is still under investigation. We present a systematic study of warped edge-on disk galaxies based on imaging data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Yiheng Wang , Han Qu , Jiafeng Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Enci Wang , Xi Kang

The distribution of stars and gas in many galaxies is asymmetric. This so-called lopsidedness is expected to significantly affect the dynamics and evolution of the disc, including the star formation activity. Here, we measure the degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. van Eymeren , E. Juette , C. J. Jog , Y. Stein , R. -J. Dettmar

Large-scale asymmetries in the stellar mass distribution in galaxies are believed to trace non-equilibrium situations in the luminous and/or dark matter component. These may arise in the aftermath of events like mergers, accretion, and…

The lopsidedness of galaxies is a commonly observed phenomenon, and through different studies, it has been observed that nearly 30% of galaxies show this phenomenon. In this work, we study morphological lopsidedness in both stellar and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Prerana Biswas , Narendra Nath Patra , Veselina Kalinova

The frequently observed lopsidedness of the distribution of stars and gas in disc galaxies is still considered as a major problem in galaxy dynamics. It is even discussed as an imprint of the formation history of discs and the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. van Eymeren , E. Juette , C. J. Jog , Y. Stein , R. -J. Dettmar

We applied computer analysis to classify the broad morphological type of ~3,000,000 SDSS galaxies. The catalog provides for each galaxy the DR8 object ID, right ascension, declination, and the certainty of the automatic classification to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

Observations of the stellar and gaseous components in disc galaxies often reveal asymmetries in the morphological and kinematic distribution. However, the origin of this effect is not well known to date, and quantitative studies are rare.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Eva Juette , Janine van Eymeren , Chanda Jog , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar , Yelena Stein

Lopsidedness is common in disk galaxies, yet its origin and evolution remain unclear. Previous studies typically examined stellar and gas asymmetries separately, but a combined analysis offers a stronger probe of the mechanisms driving…

Because of the 3D nature of galaxies, an algorithm for constructing spatial density distribution models of galaxies on the basis of galaxy images has many advantages over surface density distribution approximations. We present a method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Tempel , A. Tamm , R. Kipper , P. Tenjes

The spatial distribution of satellite galaxies around pairs of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have been found to bulge significantly towards the respective partner. Highly anisotropic, planar distributions of satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Marcel S. Pawlowski , Rodrigo A. Ibata , James S. Bullock

We applied the image-based approach with a convolutional neural network model to the sample of low-redshifts galaxies with $-24^{m}<M_{r}<-19.4^{m}$ from the SDSS DR9. We divided it into two subsamples, SDSS DR9 galaxy dataset and Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 I. B. Vavilova , V. Khramtsov , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk
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