The empty ring galaxy ESO 474 - G040

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العنوان: The empty ring galaxy ESO 474 - G040
المؤلفون: Brosch, Noah, Vaisanen, Petri, Kniazev, Alexei, Moiseev, Alexei
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: We describe observations of the apparently empty ring galaxy ESO 474-G040 obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). The observations, consisting of imaging, long-slit spectroscopy and Fabry-Perot mapping of the H-alpha line, allow determining the ring kinematics as well as estimating the metallicity of the ring and the stellar population composition in its various parts. We propose that the object could best be understood as being the result of a past merger of disk galaxies, which formed a gas ring that subsequently disrupted via the bead instability and is presently forming stars.
Comment: MNRAS, in press. 28 pages, 8 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00409
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1506.00409
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv