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Barred Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Victor Andersen*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487-0324

Abstract

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Spiral galaxies in the Virgo cluster appear to be barred more frequently than galaxies in less dense environments. Tidal forces due to the cluster mass concentration seem to be the most likely mechanism for inducing these bars.

Type
Posters of Part V and Part VI
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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