Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
The asymmetric structure and dynamics of late-type barred spirals is analyzed in terms of a model consisting of a small prolate spheroid (the bar) displaced from the center of a large oblate spheroid (the disk). The non-axisymmetric motions predicted for this model are in remarkable agreement with optical and radio observations of internal motions in several magellanic barred spirals, including NGC 4027 and the Large Cloud. In particular, the model explains the displacement of the apparent center of the rotation curve from the center of the bar.