Bibcode
Debattista, Victor P.; Corsini, Enrico Maria; Aguerri, J. A. L.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 332, Issue 1, pp. 65-77.
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2002
Citations
91
Refereed citations
81
Description
We measured the bar pattern speed, Ωp , of the SB0
galaxy NGC 1023 using the Tremaine-Weinberg method with
stellar-absorption slit spectroscopy. The morphology and kinematics of
the Hi gas outside NGC 1023 suggest it suffered a tidal interaction,
sometime in the past, with one of its dwarf companions. At present,
however, the optical disc is relaxed. If the disc had been stabilized by
a massive dark matter halo and formed its bar in the interaction, then
the bar would have to be slow. We found Ωp
=5.0+/-1.8kms-1 arcsec-1 , so that the bar ends
near its corotation radius. It is therefore rotating rapidly and must
have a maximum disc.