Structure and kinematics of the polar ring galaxies: new observations and estimation of the dark halo shape
arXiv:1410.3607 · doi:10.1515/astro-2017-0205
Abstract
The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) represent an interesting type of peculiar systems in which the outer matter is rotating in the plane which is roughly perpendicular to the disk of the main galaxy. Despite the long lasting study of the PRGs there is a lack of the detailed enough observational data, there are still many open questions. Among the most interesting issues there are the estimate of the flattening of the dark matter halos in these systems and the verification of the assumption that the most massive polar structures were formed by the accretion of the matter from the intergalactic filaments. The new catalog recently collected by our team using the SDSS images increased by several times the number of known PRGs. The current paper gives the overview of our latest results on the study of morphological and photometric structure of the PRGs. Using the stellar and ionized gas kinematics data based on spectral observations with the Russian 6-m telescope we estimate the dark matter halo shape in the individual galaxies.
arXiv comment8 pages, to appear in Baltic Astronomy, based on the talk presented on "Modern stellar astronomy-2014" (Rostov-on-Don)
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