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astro-ph.GA2026
Warped Disk Galaxies: Alignment with the Large-Scale Tidal Field
Yiheng Wang, Huiyuan Wang, Enci Wang +1
A possible origin of disk galaxy warps is the misalignment between galactic disks and their host dark matter halos, the orientations of which are found to be statistically aligned…
astro-ph.GA2025
Warped Disk Galaxies: Statistical Properties from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8
Yiheng Wang, Han Qu, Jiafeng Lu +3
Warped structures are often observed in disk galaxies, yet their physical origin is still under investigation. We present a systematic study of warped edge-on disk galaxies based o…