Bibcode
DOI
Corsini, E. M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Debattista, Victor P.; Pizzella, A.; Barazza, F. D.; Jerjen, H.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 659, Issue 2, pp. L121-L124.
Fecha de publicación:
4
2007
Revista
Número de citas
29
Número de citas referidas
26
Descripción
We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4431, a
barred dwarf galaxy in the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction
with one of its neighbors, NGC 4436. We measured its bar pattern speed
using the Tremaine-Weinberg method and derived the ratio of the
corotation radius, DL, to the bar semimajor axis,
aB. We found
DL/aB=0.6+1.2-0.4 at 99%
confidence level. Albeit with large uncertainty, the probability that
the bar ends close to its corotation radius (i.e.,
1.0<=DL/aB<=1.4) is about twice as likely as
that the bar is much shorter than the corotation radius (i.e.,
DL/aB>1.4).
Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory,
Chile [ESO programs 71.B-0138(A) and 73.B-0091(A)].