Highly inclined (edge-on) disk galaxies offer the unique perspective to constrain their intrinsic flattening, c/a, where c and a are, respectively, the vertical...
The tilted old Galactic disc and the position of the Sun
With the use of data from COBE, IRAS and the Two-micron Galactic Survey (TMGS), we examine the effect on star counts and surface brightness maps of the position...
Through Thick and Thin: The Cosmic Evolution of Disk Scale Height
To investigate the formation and evolution of vertical structures in disk galaxies, we measure global sech 2 scale heights, averaging thin and thick components...
Ultramassive Black Holes in the Most Massive Galaxies: M<SUB>BH</SUB>-σ versus M<SUB>BH</SUB>-R<SUB>b</SUB>
We investigate the nature of the relations between black hole (BH) mass (M BH) and the central velocity dispersion (σ) and, for core-Sérsic galaxies, the size...
Un estudio revela que la forma de la Galaxia Remolino se ha moldeado por el paso repetido de una galaxia satélite
Una investigación internacional, en la que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), revela que la galaxia satélite NGC5195 ha pasado dos veces...