THE SHAPE OF LITTLE THINGS DWARF GALAXIES DDO 46 AND DDO 168: UNDERSTANDING THE STELLAR AND GAS KINEMATICS

THE SHAPE OF LITTLE THINGS DWARF GALAXIES DDO 46 AND DDO 168: UNDERSTANDING THE STELLAR AND GAS KINEMATICS

Determining the shape of dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies is controversial because if one assumes that these objects are disks and if these disks are randomly distributed over the sky, then their projected minor-to-major axis ratios should follow a particular statistical distribution, which is not ob...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Megan C. (Author), Hunter, Deidre (Author), Wood, Sarah (Author), Oh, Se-Heon (Author), Zhang, Hong-Xin (Author), Herrmann, Kimberly A. (Author), Levine, Stephen E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-09-01T19:24:51Z.
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