The nature of arms in spiral galaxies. IV. Symmetries and asymmetries

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Jan 1999

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.134, p.333-358

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies: Spiral, Galaxies: Structure Of

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A Fourier analysis of the intensity distribution in the planes of nine spiral galaxies is performed. In terms of the arm classification scheme of \cite[Elmegreen & Elmegreen (1987)]{ee87} seven of the galaxies have well-defined arms (classes 12 and 9) and two have intermediate-type arms (class 5). The galaxies studied are NGC 157, 753, 895, 4321, 6764, 6814, 6951, 7479 and 7723. For each object Johnson B-band images are available which are decomposed into angular components, for different angular periodicities. No a priori assumption is made concerning the form of the arms. The base function used in the analysis is a logarithmic spiral. The main result obtained with this method is that the dominant component (or mode) usually changes at corotation. In some cases, this change to a different mode persists only for a short range about corotation, but in other cases the change is permanent. The agreement between pitch angles found with this method and by fitting logarithmic spirals to mean arm positions (del Río & Cepa 1998b, hereafter \cite[Paper III]{p3}) is good, except for those cases where bars are strong and dominant. Finally, a comparison is made with the ``symmetrization'' method introduced by Elmegreen, Elmegreen & Montenegro (1992, hereafter EEM), which also shows the different symmetric components.

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