ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PEANUT-SHAPED BULGES AND GALACTIC BARS

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Plain TeX (8 p) + 3 postscript figures. uuencoded, gzipped tar file. (420MB). Accepted for ApJLett.

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10.1086/187824

It has been suggested that the peanut-shaped bulges seen in some edge-on disk galaxies are due to the presence of a central bar. Although bars cannot be detected photometrically in edge-on galaxies, we show that barred potentials produce a strong kinematic signature in the form of double-peaked line-of-sight velocity distributions with a characteristic ``figure-of-eight'' variation with radius. We have obtained spectroscopic observations of two edge-on galaxies with peanut-shaped bulges (NGC~5746 and NGC~5965), and they reveal exactly such line-of-sight velocity distributions in both their gaseous (emission line) and their stellar (absorption line) components. These observations provide strong observational evidence that peanut-shaped bulges are a by-product of bar formation.

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