2 papers
astro-ph2004
Thick Disks of Lenticular Galaxies
M. Pohlen, M. Balcells, R. Luetticke +1
Thick disks are faint and extended stellar components found around several disk galaxies including our Milky Way. The Milky Way thick disk, the only one studied in detail, contains…
astro-ph2004
Box- and peanut-shaped bulges. III. A new class of bulges: Thick Boxy Bulges
R. Luetticke, M. Pohlen, R. -J. Dettmar
Inspecting all 1224 edge-on disk galaxies larger than 2' in the RC3 on DSS images we have found several galaxies with extraordinary bulges meeting two criteria: They are box shaped…