Comparison of bar strengths in active and non-active galaxies

Details Comparison of bar strengths in active and non-active galaxies Comparison of bar strengths in active and non-active galaxies

2001-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111376v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 880; Astrophys.J. 607 (2004) 103-124

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS macro in tex format, 9 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/383462

Bar strengths are compared between active and non-active galaxies for a sample of 43 barred galaxies. The relative bar torques are determined using a new technique (Buta and Block 2001), where maximum tangential forces are calculated in the bar region, normalized to the axisymmetric radial force field. We use JHK images of the 2 Micron All Sky Survey. We show a first clear empirical indication that the ellipticies of bars are correlated with the non-axisymmetric forces in the bar regions. We found that nuclear activity appears preferentially in those early type galaxies in which the maximum bar torques are weak and appear at quite large distances from the galactic center. Most suprisingly the galaxies with the strongest bars are non-active. Our results imply that the bulges may be important for the onset of nuclear activity, but that the correlation between the nuclear activity and the early type galaxies is not straightforward.

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