The dependence of the cool matter content on galaxy morphology in galaxies of types E/S0, S0, and SA

Details The dependence of the cool matter content on galaxy morphology in galaxies of types E/S0, S0, and SA The dependence of the cool matter content on galaxy morphology in galaxies of types E/S0, S0, and SA

Sep 1993

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 106, no. 3, p. 907-922.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Dark Matter, Disk Galaxies, Interstellar Matter, Spiral Galaxies, Astronomical Catalogs, Classifying, H Ii Regions, Infrared Radiation, Star Formation

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Using the material assembled in earlier papers, we examine the manner in which the interstellar matter content varies along the Hubble sequence from S0 galaxies to Sa galaxies selected from the RSA2 compilation. For this we make use of a new and more detailed classification which is described here as applied to these early disk/spiral galaxies. The prominence of the disk in S0's and the visibility of features (H II regions) in the Sa's serve as the basis for the subtypes. Three S0 categories: subtle, intermediate, and pronounced, and four Sa descriptors: very early, early, intermediate, and late are assigned to the galaxies. It is found that the total amount of hydrogen (H I + H2) is a function of subtype, being low in the S0's and rising smoothly from the early Sa's to the later Sa's. The average surface density of hydrogen exceeds 3 solar masses/pc-squared only in the latest subtypes of the Sa's. We conclude that the prominence of the disk of a galaxy closely follows the amount of cool gas which the disk contains.

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