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Dust and Gas in Triaxial Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

George Lake  and
Colin Norman
George Lake
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories
Colin Norman
Affiliation:
Huygen's Laboratorium

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There are many reasons to consider the dynamics of triaxial galaxies. Elliptical galaxies are not rotationally flattened (Illingworth, this conference) and their isophotal profiles are often twisted. N-body simulations of collapse have produced a number of final state figures which are triaxial. Even those still skeptical will have to grant that barred spirals (a category which seems to include the Galaxy) are certainly not axisymmetric.

Type
V. Spheroidal Systems
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 315 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983