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most citedMade-to-Measure models of the Galactic Box/Peanut bulge: stellar and total mass in the bulge region

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astro-ph2007★ 5 cited

Boxy/Peanut bulges, vertical buckling and galactic bars

I. Martinez-Valpuesta, E. Athanassoula

Boxy/peanut bulges in disk galaxies have been associated to stellar bars. In this talk, we discuss the different properties of such bulges and their relation with the corresponding…

astro-ph2007★ 52 cited

A Morphological and Statistical Analysis of Ansae in Barred Galaxies

I. Martinez-Valpuesta, J. H. Knapen, R. Buta

Many barred galaxies show a set of symmetric enhancements at the ends of the stellar bar, called {\it ansae}, or the ``handles'' of the bar. The ansa bars have been in the literatu…