Distribution and Kinematics of Molecular Gas in Barred Spiral Galaxies. I. NGC 3504

Abstract

We present the results of the CO mapping observations of the barred spiral galaxy NGC3504 with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope. The distribution of the molecular gas shows offset ridges which correspond to the distribution of HII regions along the bar. The velocity perpendicular to the bar decreases abruptly at the ridge. The velocity change implies that the molecular gas changes the direction of its motion to parallel to the bar at the ridge. Since the position angle of the major axis of the bar and the line of nodes are almost the same in NGC 3504, an upper limit to the pattern speed of the bar can be derived directly from the radial velocity. The resultant upper limit is 41 km/s/kpc which is much smaller than that derived with an assumption that the corotation radius is located at the end of the bar (77 km/s/kpc). The corotaion radius derived from our upper limit is more than two times larger than the length of the semi-major axis of the bar in NGC 3504.

6 pages, 12 figures, To appear in PASJ(Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan)

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