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25 April 2024

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The Odd Offset between the Galactic Disk and Its Bar in NGC 3906
Bonita de Swardt ; Kartik Sheth ; Taehyun Kim ; Stephen Pardy ; Elena D'Onghia ; Eric Wilcots ; Joannah Hinz ; Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos ; Michael W. Regan ; E. Athanassoula ; Albert Bosma ; Ronald J. Buta ; Mauricio Cisternas ; S ebastien Comeron ; Dimitri A. Gadotti ; Armando Gil de Paz ; Thomas H. Jarrett ; Bruce G. Elmegreen ; Santiago Erroz-Ferrer ; Luis C. Ho ; Johan H. Knapen ; Jarkko Laine ; Eija Laurikainen ; Barry F. Madore ; Sharon Meidt ; Karin Menendez-Delmestre ; Chien Y. Peng ; Heikki Salo ; Eva Schinnerer ; Dennis Zaritsky ;
Date:	16 Jun 2015
Abstract:	We use mid-infrared 3.6 and 4.5microns imaging of NGC 3906 from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) to understand the nature of an unusual offset between its stellar bar and the photometric center of an otherwise regular, circular outer stellar disk. We measure an offset of ~720 pc between the center of the stellar bar and photometric center of the stellar disk; the bar center coincides with the kinematic center of the disk determined from previous HI observations. Although the undisturbed shape of the disk suggests that NGC 3906 has not undergone a significant merger event in its recent history, the most plausible explanation for the observed offset is an interaction. Given the relatively isolated nature of NGC 3906 this interaction could be with dark matter sub structure in the galaxy’s halo or from a recent interaction with a fast moving neighbor which remains to be identified. Simulations aimed at reproducing the observed offset between the stellar bar / kinematic center of the system and the photometric center of the disk are necessary to confirm this hypothesis and constrain the interaction history of the galaxy.
Source:	arXiv, 1506.5153
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