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

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.

4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The Evoution of Galaxies. III. From simple approaches to self-consistent models" (Kiel, July 2002), G. Hensler et al. (eds.)

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