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A Local Group Polar Ring Galaxy: NGC 6822 | | Serge Demers
; Paolo Battinelli
; William E. Kunkel
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27 Oct 2005 | | Abstract: | Star counts, obtained from a 2x2 degree area centered on NGC 6822 have revealed an optical image of this galaxy composed of two components: in addition to the well-known HI disk with its young stellar component, there is a spheroidal stellar structure as extensive as its HI disk but with its major axis at roughly right angles to it which we traced to at least 9 scale lengths. Radial velocities of over 100 intermediate-age carbon stars found within this structure display kinematics contrasting strongly with those of the HI disk. These C stars belong to the spheroid. Although devoid of gas, the spheroid rotation is consistent with the I-band Tully-Fisher relation. The orientation of the rotation axis which minimizes the stellar velocity dispersion coincides with the minor axis of the stellar population ellipsoid, lying very nearly in the plane of the HI disk. We conclude: that the HI disk is a polar ring and the spheroidal component an erstwhile disk, a fossil remainder of a past close encounter episode. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0510778 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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