Comparing peanut-shaped `bulges' to N-body simulations and orbital calculations

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24 October 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0210544

Abstract

We present a near-infrared K_n-band photometric study of edge-on galaxies with a box/peanut-shaped `bulge'. The morphology of the galaxies is analysed using unsharp masking and fits to the vertical surface brightness profiles, and the results are compared to N-body simulations and orbital calculations of barred galaxies. Both theoretical approaches reproduce the main structures observed.

Keywords

SIMULATIONS AND ORBITAL
ORBITAL CALCULATIONS
COMPARING PEANUT
BODY SIMULATIONS
UNSHARP MASKING
PEANUT SHAPED
MORPHOLOGY
GALAXIES
BULGE

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Version 1, 2002-10-24, ArXiv
Published version: Astrophysics and Space Science, 284 (2), 753.

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