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Our vision of galaxies has changed significantly since the era of large galaxy surveys like the Sloan, which gave us extensive statistics with millions of galaxies.
F. Combes
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SUPERLUMINOUS SPIRAL GALAXIES [PDF]
We report the discovery of spiral galaxies that are as optically luminous as elliptical brightest cluster galaxies, with r-band monochromatic luminosity Lr = 8–14L* (4.3–7.5 × 1044 erg s−1).
P. Ogle, L. Lanz, Cyril Nader, G. Helou
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Six spiral galaxies lacking dark matter [PDF]
Dark matter is believed to be the essential building blocks of galaxy formation. While instances of galaxies lacking dark matter have been observed, these occurrences are typically linked to specific formation mechanisms, making them stand out as unique ...
Cheng-Yu Chen, Chorng-Yuan Hwang
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A Model of a Spiral Galaxy [PDF]
G. C. Mevittie, C. Payne-Gaposchkin
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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. Tidal interactions, and perhaps bars, may provoke some spiral responses, but spirals in many galaxies must be self-excited.
Sellwood, Jerry A., Masters, Karen
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Planetary Nebulae and the Ionization of the Interstellar Medium in Galaxies
We discuss the role of planetary nebulae and their progeny in galaxy context in terms of ionization of the galaxy interstellar medium. This regards ionized gas outside the disk of spiral galaxies, the diffuse ionized medium in spiral galaxies, and the ...
Grażyna Stasińska +2 more
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Dark matter cores and cusps in spiral galaxies and their explanations [PDF]
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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Lopsided spiral galaxies [PDF]
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, Francoise
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Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies. I. MBH–M*,sph [PDF]
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: dust in spiral galaxies★ [PDF]
We investigate the effect of dust on spiral galaxies by measuring the inclination-dependence of optical colours for 24,276 well-resolved SDSS galaxies visually classified in Galaxy Zoo. 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 0.4 magnitudes for the ugri passbands. We
Robert C. Nichol +15 more
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