Bibcode
Silich, S. A.; Mashchenko, S. Ya.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Franco, J.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 280, Issue 3, pp. 711-719.
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1996
Citations
8
Refereed citations
5
Description
Here we describe a method that can be used to derive, with a high degree
of confidence, the direction of the rotation axis of a galaxy. The
method is based on the deformation, caused by differential galactic
rotation, of the remnants produced by multi-supernova explosions. We
consider two realistic extreme sets of galactic boundary conditions, and
assume a large number of possible locations and energetics of the
exciting OB associations, for our time-dependent 3D calculations. We
define the zones where the observation of large-scale multi-supernova
remnants, for all possible galactic inclination angles, could help to
determine the direction of galaxy rotation. The method is applied to the
dwarf irregular Holmberg II (HoII) and to the spiral M31.