Masaq Index
arXiv 1997-09-24 0 views

On the relative orientation of binary galaxies

Puerari, Ivanio · Garcia-Gomez, Carlos · Garijo, Antonio

Original · EN

The projected directions of the rotation axes of interacting binary disk galaxies tend to align orthogonal to each other. Sofue (1992) has suggested that this could be due to shorter merger times for galaxies with paralel spins. We show by means of N-body simulations that this suggestion is correct.

English translation

This paper has no Arabic translation yet. Be the first: it takes a few seconds, and the result is stored for every future reader.

Security check

Type the characters above

Up to 10 translations per person per day.