Astrophysical: Interacting galaxies

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    The formation of counterrotating cores in elliptical galaxies
    The mechanism proposed by Kormendy (1984) for the formation of counterrotating cores in elliptical galaxies is investigated using self-consistent numerical...
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    The interacting system NGC 7753-7752 (Arp 86). I - BVRI photometry
    BVRI surface photometry is presented for the interacting galaxy pair Arp 86 (NGC 7753-7752). Deep high-resolution images were obtained in order to study the...
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    The kinematics and morphology of NGC 520
    New long-slit optical spectroscopy and optical and NIR images of NGC 520 are presented. Velocity-dispersion and radial-velocity profiles are obtained from the...
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    The kinematics and morphology of NGC 520: One, two, or three galaxies
    The peculiar galaxy NGC 520 (Arp 157) is often interpreted as an interacting pair of galaxies. The identification of the two bulges and overall morphology of...
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    Two high-velocity encounters of elliptical galaxies
    This paper describes results obtained on a simulation of two high-velocity encounters of NGC 4782/4783 and NGC 2672/2673 binary elliptical galaxies which differ...
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    Two new Seyfert galaxies from the IRAS Point Source Catalogue
    Two sources selected from the IRAS Point Source Catalogue (PSC) have been spectroscopically identified as galaxies with a Seyfert type active nucleus. The...