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A Method To Determine the Intrinsic Axial Ratios of Individual Triaxial Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Ortwin E. Gerhard  and
Mario Vietri
Ortwin E. Gerhard
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, West Germany
Mario Vietri
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astrofisico, Firenze, Italy

Abstract

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We present a method, partly geometrical and partly dynamical, to determine the intrinsic axial ratios of a triaxial galaxy. The method can be applied to bulges of spiral galaxies and to ellipticals containing sufficiently extended and kinematically regular gas disks. Required observational inputs are multi-colour surface photometry and the gas velocity field.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 401 - 402
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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