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Morphology, Stellar Kinematics and Dynamics of Barred Galaxies

Authors: John Kormendy;

Morphology, Stellar Kinematics and Dynamics of Barred Galaxies

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A brief review is given of the morphology of barred galaxies, following Kormendy (1981, 1982). The features illustrated include bulges, bars, disks, lenses, and inner and outer rings.Most of the paper is devoted to a detailed discussion of the absorption-line velocity field of the prototypical SBO galaxy NGC 936. The stars in the bar region show systematic non-circular streaming motions, with average orbits which are elongated parallel to the bar. Beyond the end of the bar, the data are consistent with circular orbits. The bar region also shows large random motions: the velocity dispersion at one-half of the radius of the bar is 1/2–2/3 as large as the maximum circular velocity. The observed kinematics are qualitatively and quantitatively similar to the behavior of n-body models by Miller and Smith (1979) and by Hohl and Zang (1979). The galaxy and the models show similar radial dependences of simple dimensionless parameters that characterize the dynamics. These include the local ratio of rotation velocity to velocity dispersion, which measures the relative importance of the ordered and random motions discussed above. Also similar are the residual streaming motions (relative to the circular velocity) in a frame of reference rotating with the bar. Circulation is in the same direction as rotation in all galaxies studied to date. Thus, except for the fact that NGC 936 has a slightly larger velocity dispersion, both n-body models are good first-order approximations to bars. Thus bars are different from elliptical galaxies, which in general are also triaxial, but which rotate slowly. This study of NGC 936 will be published in Kormendy (1983).A brief discussion is given of the kinematics of lens components. In both barred and unbarred galaxies, the velocity dispersions in the inner parts of lenses are large. The ratio of rotational to random kinetic energy is ∼ 1/2 at 1/3–1/2 of the radius of the lens. This ratio then decreases to small values at the rim of the lens. Thus at least some kinds of disk components have large stellar velocity dispersions, even in unbarred galaxies.

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