Subaru Deep Imaging of Interacting Galaxies

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21441803k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #418.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.687

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present deep optical images obtained with the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) for nearby interacting galaxies. New tidal structures are revealed in many systems: remarkable examples include a northern faint extension of the Antennae, a large extension of Arp 220 -- doubling the size from the previously-known, and a new tidal tail of Mrk 231. These extended features constrain the orientations and orbits of progenitor galaxies; the large extensions indicate that their rotations were retrograde with respect to the orbits. The orientations of the progenitors may constrain the timescale that merging completes, the duration of gravitational perturbation, and the timescale of gas fueling to galactic centers.

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