Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-08-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
13 pages, 4 figures, New Astronomy Reviews (proceeding of 7th SCSLSA), in press
Scientific paper
In this review we consider various ring structures that are observed in galaxies. Formation and evolution of the rings are interesting problems in studies of galactic morphology. They are related to such fundamental aspects of galactic evolution and dynamics as the nature and distribution of the dark matter in galaxies, galactic interactions and internal secular evolution of galactic substructures. A significant fraction of galactic rings forms in the disks due to gravitational torques from bar-like patterns. In contrast to this internally driven origin, the phenomenon of the polar-ring galaxies is closely connected with the processes of intergalactic interactions and merging. A rare class of collisional rings reveals the density waves triggered in the stellar and gaseous disks after a strong head-on collision with a companion. We briefly review the status of studies of gas kinematics in the rings of different origin. We stress that velocity fields of the ionized gas obtained with the Fabry-Perot interferometers provide a very important information for these studies.
Bizyaev D. V.
Moiseev Aleksei V.
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