Bar Strengths in Galaxies as Measured from INGRID Images

Knapen, J. H.; Block, D. L.; Buta, R.; Puerari, I.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Stedman, S.; Elmegreen, D. M.
Bibliographical reference

The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 6, p. 3-6.

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2002
Number of authors
7
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0
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0
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Description
We describe results from our study of a sample of spiral galaxies of a wide range of Hubble types on the basis of near-IR imaging obtained with INGRID on the WHT. We focus on the determination of bar torques, or bar strengths, from our images, and show that this bar strength only very weakly correlates with de Vaucouleurs bar type, or with bar axis ratio.