A MUSE study of the fast bar in the weakly-interacting galaxy NGC 4264

Cuomo, Virginia; Corsini, Enrico Maria; Aguerri, Alfonso J. L.; Debattista, Victor P.
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2020
Number of authors
4
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1
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1
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1
Description
We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4264, a lenticular galaxy in the region of the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with its neighbour, NGC 4261. We measured the bar radius and strength from SDSS imaging and the bar pattern speed from MUSE integral-field spectroscopy. We find that NGC 4264 hosts a strong and large bar, which is rotating fast. The accurate measurement of the bar rotation rate allows us to exclude that the formation of the bar was triggered by the ongoing interaction.