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Counterrotation and Barred Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Galletta
G. Galletta*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universitá di Padova, vicolo Osservatorio, 5 I 35122 Padova, Italy

Abstract

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In this review we discuss the phenomenon of counterrotation, observed in ~40 apparently normal galaxies where gas or stars are rotating in a direction opposite to the main stellar body. It appears in all morphological types, from ellipticals to spirals or irregulars.

The problem of the origin and the evolution of counterrotation is discussed, in the wider frame of the galaxies accreting matter from their environment (e.g., minor-axis dust-lane ellipticals or polar-ring S0s). Various sources of matter appear to be candidates for the production of the counterrotation.

Due to the tendency of the bar potential to populate particular families of orbits, some cases of counterrotation found in barred galaxies are interpreted as intrinsic to barred galaxies.

Type
Part VIII. Counterrotating Phenomena, Models, Synthesis of Results
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 157: Barred Galaxies , 1996 , pp. 429 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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