The Influence of Interactions and Minor Mergers on the Structure of Galactic Disks: I.Observations and Disk Models

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2000-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007103v1

Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.144:85-121,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX, 36 pages, 5 figures, complete series of papers incl. all figures of higher quality is available at http://aurora.as.a

Scientific paper

10.1051/aas:2000340

This paper is the first part in our series on the influence of tidal interactions and minor mergers on the radial and vertical disk structure of spiral galaxies. We report on the sample selection, our observations, and data reduction. Surface photometry of the optical and near infrared data of a sample of 110 highly-inclined/edge-on disk galaxies are presented. This sample consists of two subsamples of 61 non-interacting galaxies (control sample) and of 49 interacting galaxies/minor merging candidates. Additionally, 41 of these galaxies were observed in the near infrared. We show that the distribution of morphological types of both subsamples is almost indistinguishable, covering the range between 0 <= T <= 9. An improved, 3-dimensional disk modelling- and fitting procedure is described in order to analyze and to compare the disk structure of our sample galaxies by using characteristic parameters. We find that the vertical brightness profiles of galactic disks respond very sensitive even to small deviations from the perfect edge-on orientation. Hence, projection effects of slightly inclined disks may cause substantial changes in the value of the disk scale height and must therefore be considered in the subsequent study.

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