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The Intrinsic Shape of Spiral Galaxies in the 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas

  • Authors: Barbara S. Ryden

Ryden 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 641 773.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 8.

Top: Asterisks indicate the best‐fitting values of μ and σ to the complete sample of LGA spirals, assuming a lognormal distribution of disk ellipticities. The heavy solid line, light solid line, and dotted line indicate the ﹩P=0.5﹩, 0.1, and 0.01 isoprobability contours. Red indicates shapes deduced from Ks data; blue indicates shapes from B data. Dashed lines show the scatter in the Tully‐Fisher relation; contours are drawn, starting at the lower left, at 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1.0 mag. Middle: Same as top, but for spirals of Hubble type Sc or later. Bottom: Same as top and bottom, but for spirals of type Sbc or earlier. A indicates best fit to data of Andersen et al. (2001); R indicates best fit of Ryden (2004).

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