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NGC 4622 versus NGC 3081 Disks: Encounter versus Intrinsic Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Tarsh Freeman ,
Gene Byrd  and
Derrick Ousley
Tarsh Freeman
Affiliation:
Bevill State, Alabama, USA
Gene Byrd
Affiliation:
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Derrick Ousley
Affiliation:
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Abstract

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Star formation processes in galaxies are far from being understood. Resonance rings of star formation are a common phenomenon of early-type barred spiral galaxies. Most rings are regions of enhanced star formation via gas cloud collisions near resonances, under the action of a gravitational bar perturbation. A small number of rings may form in response to a mild tidal interaction with a nearby companion. In either case, resonance rings are natural dynamical experiments in star formation stellar association time evolution. We study star formation in two galaxies where resonance rings probably have these two different modes of origin. NGC 3081 has four bi-symmetric star-forming rings that are probably connected to bar-driven gas dynamics, while NGC 4622 is a non-barred spiral where a strong one-sided ring may be connected to a past tidal interaction. We model the young clusters in the rings as two-fold and one-fold periodic orbits, respectively. We show that age indicators, Hα emission and the color index B – I, vary with position angle around the rings in a two-fold and one-fold sense as predicted by our models. The success of these models shows that future high resolution observations can be used to separate the individual associations from the underlying disk light so as to study their evolution and luminosity function.

Type
Part 3. Numerical Simulations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 174: Small Galaxy Groups , 2000 , pp. 325 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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