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盘星系III的运动学模拟。扭曲的“主轴”NGC 2685

Kinematic modeling of disk galaxies III. The warped "Spindle" NGC 2685

G. I. G. Jozsa, T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti, U. Klein, T. Erben

摘要:

这是第三次的一系列文件中的结构和运动学的盘星系的研究。采用直接倾斜环拟合的数据立方体,介绍了文件I,我们进行了分析的“纺锤”星系NGC 2685,以前被认为是两个环的极环星系。深HI和光学(i '带)的观测。HI的观测结果强烈地表明,NGC 2685的气体结构并不是由两个独立的相互倾斜的区域组成,而是形成了一个连贯的、极度扭曲的圆盘,两个环的出现是由于投影效应。通过比较HI总强度图与光学图像,我们表明,在大半径的暗淡的恒星盘是很好地与外部HI盘对齐。尘埃带的形状掩盖了内星体的东北部,这表明在较小的半径下,NGC 2685也拥有一个包含气体、尘埃和恒星的盘,其中各种成分排列成一条直线。在较小的半径,这个磁盘是从中央恒星体运动学解耦。因此,在明亮的中央恒星体区域,NGC 2685似乎由两个圆盘组成,它们共享一个共同的中心,但具有不同的方向:一个明亮的恒星透镜状体,显然没有尘埃和气体,以及一个严重扭曲的低表面亮度圆盘,包含恒星,气体和尘埃。低表面亮度盘逐渐改变其方向,并在大半径假设的中央恒星S0盘的方向。根据我们的分析,由于低表面亮度盘的内在方向改变了70度,气体盘是相干的,并且没有半径垂直于中心恒星,NGC 2685可能不是一个经典的极环星系。

英文摘要:

This is the third of a series of papers in which the structure and kinematics of disk galaxies is studied. Employing direct tilted-ring fits to the data cube as introduced in Paper I, we perform an analysis of the "Spindle" galaxy NGC 2685, previously regarded as two-ringed polar ring galaxy. Deep HI and optical (i'-band) observations are presented. The HI observations strongly suggest that the gaseous structure of NGC 2685 does not consist of two separate mutually inclined regions, but forms a coherent, extremely warped disk, the appearance of two rings being due to projection effects. By comparing the HI total-intensity maps with the optical image we demonstrate that at large radii a faint stellar disk is well aligned with the outer HI disk. The shape of the dust-lanes obscuring the NE part of the inner stellar body indicates that also at smaller radii NGC 2685 possesses a disk containing gas, dust, and stars in which the various constituents are aligned. At smaller radii, this disk is kinematically decoupled from the central stellar body. Hence, in the region of the bright, central stellar body, NGC 2685 appears to consist of two disks that share a common centre, but have different orientation: a bright stellar lenticular body apparently devoid of dust and gas, and a heavily warped low-surface brightness disk containing stars, gas and dust. The low-surface-brightness disk changes its orientation gradually and at large radii assumes the orientation of the central stellar S0 disk. Since, according to our analysis, the intrinsic orientation of the low-surface-brightness disk changes through 70 degrees, the gaseous disk is coherent, and is at no radius orientated perpendicularly with respect to the central stellar body, NGC 2685 is likely not a classical polar-ring galaxy.

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