K'-Band Observations of Underlying Symmetric Structure in Flocculent Galaxies

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Dec 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aj....118.2618e&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, Volume 118, Issue 6, pp. 2618-2624.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Individual (Ngc 3810, Ngc 4501, Ngc 6384, Ngc 6643), Galaxies: Spiral

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Galaxies classified as flocculent have stochastic spiral structure in their stellar disks. Recent observations reveal that some optically flocculent galaxies have underlying, faint two-arm near-IR symmetric structure, which is indicative of a density wave. We present K'-band observations of 14 flocculent galaxies, of which half show some symmetry in their stellar disks and four have prominent near-IR structure. Their arm-interarm contrasts increase with radius as they do in grand-design galaxies, but the contrast is much smaller, indicating that the density waves are very weak.

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