NGC5982 - a Smooth Triaxial Elliptical

Bibcode
1994MNRAS.266L..10O
Oosterloo, T.; Balcells, M.; Carter, D.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 266, NO. 1/JAN, P. L10, 1994

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1994
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Number of authors
3
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
8
Refereed citations
8
Description
NGC 5982 is known to be one of those elliptical galaxies that have peculiar kinematics in their centres. In this paper, optical spectroscopic observations are presented, which show that a specific feature is present in the velocity field of NGC 5982. This suggests that the kinematical behaviour is the result of projection effects in a dynamically smooth triaxial elliptical galaxy, and that it is not due to a dynamically distinct, central mass component. Nevertheless, we suggest that it may be related to a merger event.
Type
Refereed

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