Issue |
A&A
Volume 494, Number 2, February I 2009
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Page(s) | 489 - 508 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809372 | |
Published online | 22 December 2008 |
Kinematic modeling of disk galaxies
III. The warped “Spindle” NGC 2685
1
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands e-mail: [jozsa;oosterloo;morganti]@astron.nl
2
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. Groningen, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
3
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA), Univ. Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany e-mail: [uklein;erben]@astro.uni-bonn.de
Received:
9
January
2008
Accepted:
10
October
2008
This is the third of a series of papers in which the structure and kinematics of disk galaxies is studied. By employing direct tilted-ring fits to the data cube as introduced in Paper I, we analyzed the “Spindle” galaxy NGC 2685, previously regarded as a two-ringed polar ring galaxy. Deep H I and optical (i'-band) observations are presented. The H I observations strongly suggest that the gaseous structure of NGC 2685 does not consist of two separate mutually inclined regions, but forms a coherent, extremely warped disk, the appearance of two rings being due to projection effects. By comparing the H I total-intensity maps with the optical image, we demonstrate that at large radii a faint stellar disk is well aligned with the outer H I disk. The shape of the dust lanes obscuring the NE part of the inner stellar body indicates that, also at smaller radii, NGC 2685 possesses a disk containing gas, dust, and stars in which the various constituents are aligned. At smaller radii, this disk is kinematically decoupled from the central stellar body; hence, in the region of the bright, central stellar body, NGC 2685 appears to consist of two disks that share a common center, but have different orientation: a bright stellar lenticular body apparently devoid of dust and gas, and a heavily warped low-surface brightness disk containing stars, gas, and dust. The low-surface-brightness disk changes its orientation gradually and at large radii assumes the orientation of the central stellar S0 disk. Since, according to our analysis, the intrinsic orientation of the low-surface-brightness disk changes through 70°, the gaseous disk is coherent, and is at no radius oriented perpendicularly with respect to the central stellar body, NGC 2685 is not likely to be a classical polar-ring galaxy.
Key words: galaxies: kinematics and dynamics / galaxies: structure / galaxies: ISM / galaxies: peculiar / galaxies: individual: NGC 2685
© ESO, 2009
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