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We analyze the radial distribution of HI gas for 23 disk galaxies with unusually high HI content from the Bluedisk sample, along with a similar-sized sample of "normal" galaxies. We propose an empirical model to fit the radial profile of…

Most of the visible mass in a typical spiral galaxy is distributed in a thin disk, with a radial extent much larger than its thickness. While the planar disk structure, including non-axisymmetric features such as spiral structure, has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Chanda J. Jog

Dust extinction can be determined from the number of distant field galaxies seen through a spiral disk. To calibrate this number for the crowding and confusion introduced by the foreground image, Gonzalez et al.(1998) and Holwerda et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. W. Holwerda , R. A. Gonzalez , Ronald J. Allen , P. C. van der Kruit

We study massive disk galaxies (stellar mass $>=10^{11}\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) at z=0 from IllustrisTNG simulation to detect galaxies that contain two exponential stellar disks - a central high surface brightness (HSB) disk surrounded by an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Suchira Sarkar , Kanak Saha

We present results of surface photometry for eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6-m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The photometric scale length, the scale height, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Bizyaev , Serafim Kajsin

This review focuses on flat and superthin galaxies. These are edge-on bulgeless galaxies, which are composed of a simple, stellar disk. The properties of these simple disks are at the end of a continuum that extends smoothly from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Stefan J. Kautsch

It is well known that the bright and remote Galactic globular cluster NGC2419 has a very peculiar structure. In particular its half-light radius is significantly larger than that of ordinary globular clusters of similar luminosity, being as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michele Bellazzini

The Universal Rotation Curve (URC) of disk galaxies was originally proposed to predict the shape and amplitude of any rotation curve (RC) based solely on photometric data. Here, the URC is investigated with an extensive set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Raj Patel , Nikhil Arora , Stéphane Courteau , Connor Stone , Matthew Frosst , Lawrence Widrow

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

This study explores the density profile of the stellar disk, radially and azimuthally, based on approximately 8.4 million red clump stars selected from Gaia Bp/Rp spectra. After correcting for selection effects and distance uncertainties,…

We study the azimuthal structure of the stellar disks of 18 face-on spiral galaxies, using K-band photometry to trace the stellar surface mass density. Assuming the disks are co-planar, we characterize their deviation from axisymmetry by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hans-Walter Rix , Dennis Zaritsky

We determine the parameters of scaling relations analogous to the Fundamental Plane of elliptical galaxies for the bulges and disks of a sample of 40 spiral galaxies. To this end we derive structural parameters (scalelengths and surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Moriondo , R. Giovanelli , M. Haynes

We analyse the surface brightness profiles of disc-type galaxies in the EAGLE simulations in order to investigate the effects of galaxy mass and environment on galaxy profile types. Following observational works, we classify the simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Joel L. Pfeffer , Kenji Bekki , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch , Bärbel S. Koribalski

The disk surface density of the nearby spiral galaxy M33 is estimated assuming that it is marginally stable against gravitational perturbations. For this purpose we used the radial profile of line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-29 A. S. Saburova , A. V. Zasov

This paper presents surface photometry (B,V, I, J, H, K) and H_alpha rotation curves of 27 isolated spiral galaxies. The final goal is to obtain the mass distribution of a sample of isolated spiral galaxies in order to model their gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Perez , I. Marquez , K. Freeman , R. Fux

The disks of spiral galaxies are commonly thought to be truncated: the radial surface brightness profile steepens sharply beyond a certain radius (3--5 inner-disk scale lengths). Here we present the radial brightness profiles of a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Erwin , John E. Beckman , Michael Pohlen

We analyze the dependence of the stellar disc flatness on the galaxy morphological type using 2D decomposition of galaxies from the reliable subsample of the Edge-on Galaxies in SDSS (EGIS) catalogue. Combining these data with the retrieved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Mosenkov , N. Ya. Sotnikova , V. P. Reshetnikov , D. V. Bizyaev , S. J. Kautsch

We make use of the images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 to present an analysis of r band surface brightness profiles and radial color gradients (g - r, u - r) in 111 nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs). With Stripe 82 images, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fangzhou Jiang , Song Huang , Qiusheng Gu

We present the primary results from the Dragonfly Edge-on Galaxies Survey (DEGS), an exploration of the stellar halos of twelve nearby ($d < 25$ Mpc) edge-on disc galaxies with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The edge-on orientation of these…

Using SDSS Stripe82 data we have obtained deep radial surface brightness profiles of 7 face-on to intermediate inclined late-type spirals down to \sim 30 mag arcsec^-2 in the r'-band. We do not find any evidence for a sharp cut-off of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-16 Judit Bakos , Ignacio Trujillo