Nuclear Stellar Disks in Spiral Galaxies

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2002-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203038v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 5 PostScript figures. Accepted for pubblication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/340486

We report evidence for nuclear stellar disks in 3 early-type spirals, namely NGC 1425, NGC 3898 and NGC 4698, revealed by WFPC2/F606W images out of a sample of 38 spiral galaxies, selected from the Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive. Adopting the photometric method introduced by Scorza & Bender we derived their central surface brightness and scalelength by assuming them to be infinitesimally thin exponential disks. No nuclear disk was found in barred galaxies or galaxies of Hubble type later than Sb. The external origin of the disk in NGC 4698 is strongly suggested by its orthogonal geometrical decoupling with respect to the host galaxy.

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