Bibcode
Díaz, R. J.; Dottori, H.; Mediavilla, E.
Referencia bibliográfica
XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy (Eds. L. Infante & M. Rubio) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 26, pp. 179
Fecha de publicación:
6
2006
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Descripción
Simulation of encounters of disk galaxies (Barnes 2002, MNRAS, 333, 481)
shows that the newly formed disks are often warped, many have rather
complex kinematics, and roughly a quarter have counter-rotating or
otherwise decoupled central components. Recent integral-field
observations of the S0 galaxy NGC 7332 added to broad-band ground-based
and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry seem to indicate a
double-disc structure in this galaxy. Furthermore, the SAURON
two-dimensional stellar kinematic maps is interpreted as been produced
by a cold counter-rotating stellar component within the central 250 pc
of NGC 7332. The Hβ and [O III] emission line maps show that the
ionized gas has a complex morphology and kinematics, including both a
component counter-rotating with respect to the stars and a fainter
corotating one (Falcon-Barroso et al. 2004, MNRAS, 350, 35). Other
galaxies also show this type of counter-rotating inner disk at tens or
hundredths parsecs scale, as the case of NGC 253 (Zhao et al. 2001,
ASPCP, 240, 404). In this contribution we analyze the inner disk warp as
an alternative explanation to counter-rotation to explain peculiar forms
of the rotation curves ascribed to counter-rotation. In fact, inner
disks warps with position angle of their line of nodes different from
that of the large disks, both with a small inclination with respect to
the plane of the sky, may be misunderstood as been produced by
counter-rotation.