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We study massive disk galaxies (total stellar mass$>=10^{11}$ $\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) from IllustrisTNG50 simulation, and perform 2-D structural decomposition of the galaxies using their idealised, synthetic SDSS images for z=0. We find an…

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Rotation curves of more than one hundred spiral galaxies were compiled from the literature, and deconvolved into bulge, disk, and dark halo using $\chi^2$ fitting in order to determine their scale radii and masses. Correlation analyses were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Yoshiaki Sofue

We construct self-consistent light and mass distribution models for 4 distant spiral galaxies. The models include a bulge, a disk and an isothermal dark matter. We find the luminosity profiles to have much steeper cut-off than that of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antti Tamm , Peeter Tenjes

A photometric method for quantifying deviations from axisymmetry in optical images of disk galaxies is applied to a sample of 32 face-on and nearly face-on spirals. The method involves comparing the relative fluxes contained within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David A. Kornreich , Martha P. Haynes , Richard V. E. Lovelace

The apparent shapes of spiral galaxies in the 2-Micron All Sky Survey Large Galaxy Atlas are used to constrain the intrinsic shape of their disks. When the distribution of apparent axis ratios is estimated using a nonparametric kernel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara S. Ryden

We present near-infrared imaging of a sample of 57 relatively large, Northern spiral galaxies with low inclination. After describing the selection criteria and some of the basic properties of the sample, we give a detailed description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Knapen , R. S. de Jong , S. Stedman , D. M. Bramich

This paper presents the dynamical simulations run in the potential derived from the light distribution of 5 late-type barred spiral galaxies. The aim is to determine whether the mass distribution together with the hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Pérez , R. Fux , K. Freeman

We present a list of 220 face-on, almost bulgeless galaxies assumed to be counterparts to the objects from the Reference Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC). We selected the Sc, Scd and Sd-type galaxies according to their apparent axial ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva

Little is known about the content and distribution of dark matter in spiral galaxies. To break the degeneracy in galaxy rotation curve decompositions, which allows a wide range of dark matter halo density profiles, an independent measure of…

We present a performance analysis of the DiskMass Survey. The survey uses collisionless tracers in the form of disk stars to measure the surface-density of spiral disks, to provide an absolute calibration of the stellar mass-to-light ratio,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew A. Bershady , Marc A. W. Verheijen , Kyle B. Westfall , David R. Andersen , Rob A. Swaters , Thomas Martinsson

We present results of numerical N-body simulations of a galactic stellar disk embedded into a spherical dark halo. The non-linear dynamics of bending instabilities developing in the disk is studied. The bending modes, axisymmetric and not,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Tyurina , A. V. Khoperskov , D. V. Bizyaev

We report the discovery of spiral galaxies that are as optically luminous as elliptical brightest cluster galaxies, with r-band monochromatic luminosity L_r=8-14L* (4.3-7.5E44 erg/s). These super spiral galaxies are also giant and massive,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 Patrick M. Ogle , Lauranne Lanz , Cyril Nader , George Helou

We have investigated the stellar light distribution and the rotation curves of high-luminosity spiral galaxies in the local Universe. The sample contains 30 high-quality extended H alpha and HI rotation curves. The stellar disk scale-length…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 I. A. Yegorova , A. Babic , P. Salucci , K. Spekkens , A. Pizzella

A homogeneous sample of ~2200 low redshift disk galaxies with both high sensitivity long-slit optical spectroscopy and detailed I-band photometry is used to construct average, or template, rotation curves in separate luminosity classes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Catinella , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

The best-fitting 2-dimensional plane within the 3-dimensional space of spiral galaxy disk observables (rotational velocity v_{rot}, central disk surface brightness \mu_0 = -2.5log I_0, and disk scale-length h) has been constructed. Applying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham

Mass models of 100 nearby spiral and irregular galaxies, covering morphological types from Sa to Irr, are computed using H$\alpha$ rotation curves and R$_c$-band surface brightness profiles. The kinematics was obtained using a scanning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Marie Korsaga , Philippe Amram , Claude Carignan , Benoit Epinat

(Abridged) We analyze the evolution of 42 spiral galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey, using extinction-corrected UV, optical and near-infrared radial profiles to probe the emission of stars of different ages as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. C. Muñoz-Mateos , S. Boissier , A. Gil de Paz , J. Zamorano , R. C. Kennicutt , J. Moustakas , N. Prantzos , J. Gallego

We have derived disk scale lengths for 30374 non-interacting disk galaxies in all five SDSS bands. Virtual Observatory methods and tools were used to define, retrieve, and analyse the images for this unprecedentedly large sample classified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-21 Kambiz Fathi , Mark Allen , Thomas Boch , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Reynier Peletier

We construct a model for the Milky Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter halo. All components are modelled as $N$-body systems with up to 8 billion equal-mass particles and integrated up to an age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Michiko S. Fujii , Jeroen Bédorf , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart

We used the Revised Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC) to create a sample of ultra-flat galaxies (UFG) covering the whole northern and southern sky apart from the Milky Way zone. It contains 817 spiral galaxies seen edge-on, selected into the UFG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-25 V. E. Karachentseva , Yu. N. Kudrya , I. D. Karachentsev , D. I. Makarov , O. V. Melnyk