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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 Spirals in galaxies have long been thought to be caused by gravitational instability in the stellar component of the disk, but discerning the precise mechanism had proved elusive.
J. Sellwood, K. Masters
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SUPERLUMINOUS SPIRAL GALAXIES [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 ABSTRACT 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* (4.3–7.5 × 1044 erg s−1).
Patrick M. Ogle +3 more
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Dark matter cores and cusps in spiral galaxies and their explanations [PDF]
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019 We compare proposed solutions to the core vs cusp issue of spiral galaxies, which has also been framed as a diversity problem, and demonstrate that the cuspiness of dark matter halos is correlated with the stellar surface brightness.
M. Kaplinghat, T. Ren, Hai-Bo Yu
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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2011 We study the role of asymptotic curves in supporting the spiral structure of a N-body model simulating a barred spiral galaxy. Chaotic orbits with initial conditions on the unstable asymptotic curves of the main unstable periodic orbits follow the shape of the periodic orbits for an initial interval of time and then they are diffused outwards ...
Contopoulos, George, Harsoula, Mirella
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Lopsided spiral galaxies [PDF]
Physics Reports, 2009 The light distribution in the disks of many galaxies is non-axisymmetric or `lopsided' with a spatial extent much larger along one half of a galaxy than the other, as in M101. Recent near-IR observations show that lopsidedness is common. The stellar disks in nearly 30 % of galaxies have significant lopsidedness, greater than 10 % measured as the ...
Jog, Chanda J., Combes, Françoise
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Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies. I. MBH–M*,sph [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2018 The (supermassive black hole mass, MBH)–(bulge stellar mass, ) relation is, obviously, derived using two quantities. We endeavor to provide accurate values for the latter via detailed multicomponent galaxy decompositions for the current full sample of 43
Benjamin Lee Davis +2 more
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Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314, 000 Galaxies [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2021 We present Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: detailed visual morphological classifications for Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey images of galaxies within the SDSS DR8 footprint. Deeper DECaLS images (r=23.6 vs. r=22.2 from SDSS) reveal spiral arms, weak bars, and tidal
Mike Walmsley +15 more
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Galaxy Zoo:dust in spiral galaxies [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011 We investigate the effect of dust on spiral galaxies by measuring the inclination dependence of optical colours for 24 276 well-resolved Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies visually classified via the Galaxy Zoo project. We find clear trends of reddening with inclination which imply a total extinction from face-on to edge-on of 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 and 0.
Masters, Karen L. +14 more
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The Statistical Properties of Spiral Arms in Nearby Disk Galaxies
Astrophysical Journal, 2020 We analyze 4378 nearby bright disk (S0 and spiral) galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to characterize their spiral structure and systematically investigate the relationships between spiral arm properties (strength, pitch angle, and ...
Sijie Yu, L. Ho
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