Tidal thickening of galaxy disks
| dc.creator | Reshetnikov, Vladimir | |
| dc.creator | Combes, Francoise | |
| dc.date | 1996-11-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:22:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:22:24Z | |
| dc.description | We have studied a sample of 24 edge-on interacting galaxies and compared them to edge-on isolated galaxies, to investigate the effects of tidal interaction on disk thickening. We found that the ratio h/z of the radial exponential scalelength h to the scale height z is about twice smaller for interacting galaxies. This is found to be due both to a thickening of the plane, and to a radial stripping or shrinking of the stellar disk. If we believe that any galaxy experienced a tidal interaction in the past, we must conclude that continuous gas accretion and subsequent star formation can bring back the ratio h/z to higher values, in a time scale of 1 Gyr. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages, including two PostScript figures, LaTeX (lamuphys.sty). To be published in the proceedings of the "Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications" Third ESO-VLT Workshop, November 18-20, 1996 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611234 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611234 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10865 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Tidal thickening of galaxy disks | |
| dc.type | text |