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Stellar Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies: Fossils of Past Circumnuclear Starbursts?
Peter Erwin, Juan Carlos Vega Beltran, John Beckman
We have found four barred S0 galaxies -- NGC 936, NGC 3945, NGC 4340, and NGC 4371 -- which contain smooth, luminous, purely stellar nuclear rings within their bars. These rings ha…
astro-ph2001
Double Bars, Inner Disks, and Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies
Peter Erwin, Linda S. Sparke, Juan Carlos Vega Beltran +1
We present results of a high-resolution imaging survey of barred S0--Sa galaxies which demonstrate that the central regions of these galaxies are surprisingly complex. We see many…