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ULTRALIGHT SCALARS AND SPIRAL GALAXIES [PDF]
Modern Physics Letters A, 2001 We study some possible astrophysical implications of a very weakly coupled ultralight dilaton-type scalar field. Such a field may develop an (approximately stable) network of domain walls. The domain wall thickness is assumed to be comparable with the thickness of the luminous part of the spiral galaxies. The walls provide trapping for galactic matter.
Gregory Gabadadze +2 more
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Exploring the evolution of spiral galaxies [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2002 We have constructed a family of simple models for spiral galaxy evolution to allow us to investigate observational trends in star formation history with galaxy parameters. The models are used to generate broad band colours from which ages and metallicities are derived in the same way as the data.
Eric F. Bell +2 more
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Magnetic fields in spiral galaxies [PDF]
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 1990 Published in A&ARev (2016) 24 ...
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ON THE FRACTION OF BARRED SPIRAL GALAXIES [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 We investigate the stellar masses of strongly barred spiral galaxies. Our analysis is based on a sample of ~14000 visually-classified nearby galaxies given in Nair & Abraham 2010(a). The fraction of barred spiral galaxies is found to be a strong function of stellar mass and star formation history, with a minimum near the characteristic mass at ...
Preethi Nair, Roberto Abraham
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Scaling Relations of Spiral Galaxies [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 We construct a large data set of global structural parameters for 1300 field and cluster spiral galaxies and explore the joint distribution of luminosity L, optical rotation velocity V, and disk size R at I- and 2MASS K-bands. The I- and K-band velocity-luminosity (VL) relations have log-slopes of 0.29 and 0.27, respectively with sigma_ln(VL)~0.13, and
Courteau, Stéphane +6 more
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Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies [PDF]
Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1995 In this review I will concentrate on three questions concerning the issue of dark matter in spiral galaxies. In the first place (and for the most part) I will discuss the analysis of rotation curves and the question whether the “maximum–disk hypothesis” is valid.
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Simulations of normal spiral galaxies [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2003 Accepted for publication in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Soc. The astro-ph copy has a few figures with degraded resolution. A copy with high quality graphics (4281 kb) can be downloaded from the kapteyn institute weg page at http://www.astro.rug.nl (Goto preprints and preprints 2003)
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The Dynamics of the Spiral Galaxy M81 [PDF]
Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1978 The spiral galaxy M81 is a challenging object for testing a density-wave theory. It is of large angular size and favourably inclined to the line of sight; radio observations of neutral atomic hydrogen showing well defined spiral arms with noncircular motions are available (Rots and Shane 1975), and there is evidence from surface photometry for density ...
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The present-day galaxy population in spiral galaxies [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2009 Although there are many more stellar population studies of elliptical and lenticular galaxies, studies of spiral galaxies are catching up, due to higher signal to noise data on one hand, and better analysis methods on the other. Here I start by discussing some modern methods of analyzing integrated spectra of spiral galaxies, and comparing them with ...
Reynier Peletier +7 more
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The stellar populations of spiral galaxies [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000 25 pages; 17 figures; re-submitted to MNRAS after replying to referee's ...
Roelof S. de Jong +2 more
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