Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.325...49f&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 325, Issue 1, pp. 49-54.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Galaxies: Clusters: General, Galaxies: Clusters: Individual: Coma/A1367 Supercluster, Galaxies: Formation, Large-Scale Structure Of Universe
Scientific paper
The spatial orientations of the galactic planes for galaxies in the Coma/A1367 supercluster have been determined. Owing to the ambiguity in the determination of the inclination angle, two possible orientations of the normal to the galaxy plane were found. Two angles, the polar angle δD and the azimuthal angle η, describe the orientation of normals. The distribution of both angles has been checked for isotropy. It is shown that the distribution is not isotropic. The same alignment is observed for samples containing elliptical and lenticular galaxies and for samples containing only spirals, as well as for samples containing galaxies located in different parts of the supercluster. In the case of spiral galaxies, the anisotropy shows that galaxy rotation axes strongly favour alignment with the main plane of the supercluster. The projection of the rotation axes on to the main plane of the supercluster has a preferential direction pointing towards the supercluster, but this effect is weak. A comparison with theory is also presented.
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