Lopsided galaxies
Abstract
Attention is drawn to the large-scale asymmetries in a number of nearby galaxies. A mechanism is proposed which is partially successful in explaining the long persistence of these asymmetries.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/193.2.313
- Bibcode:
- 1980MNRAS.193..313B
- Keywords:
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- Galactic Rotation;
- Hydrogen Clouds;
- Neutral Gases;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Astronomical Models;
- Elliptical Orbits;
- Galactic Structure;
- Astrophysics