Star formation on the leading edge of a ring-like density wave in ARP 143

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Jul 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3084..276a&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Ames Research Center, The Interstellar Medium in External Galaxies: Summaries of Contributed Papers p 276-278 (SEE N91-

Mathematics

H I Regions, Interacting Galaxies, Mapping, Radio Emission, Ring Galaxies, Star Formation, Stars, Hydrodynamics, Mathematical Models, Spatial Distribution

Scientific paper

NGC 2445 is a member of the pair of interacting galaxies Arp 143 (=VV117) and has been classified as an irregular ring galaxy by deVaucouleurs et al. (1976). Although not obviously a classical ring galaxy from its optical appearance, it nevertheless shows many of the symptoms of a collisional off-center ring galaxy in the early stages of development. Optically the galaxy shows a rough ring of super-giant HII regions distributed asymmetrically with respect to the nucleus with most of the emission concentrated on the western side of the galaxy. Researchers mapped the HI emission in this system (with F. Ghigo and J. van Gorkom; NRAO) and the observations show that the disk of NGC 2445 is characterized by a large-scale banana-shaped HI wave with its peak to the west of the nucleus. Nearing-IR imaging (with E. I. Robson and A. J. Adamson; Lancs. Polytechnic, U.K.) demonstrates that, like the HI, the underlying population of old stars is very asymmetrically distributed with the bulk of the stars concentrated to the western side of the galaxy.

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