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The Structure of the Superthin Spiral Galaxy UGC7321

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L.D. Matthews
Affiliation:
NRAO, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J.S. Gallagher
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
W. van Driel
Affiliation:
Unité Scientifique Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, France

Abstract

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UGC 7321 is an edge-on low surface brightness (LSB) spiral galaxy with a number of extraordinary properties. Its vertical scale height (~70 pc) is one of the smallest ever measured for a galaxy disk. Its disk also exhibits strong vertical and radial color gradients. UGC 7321 appears to be an extremely unevolved galaxy in both a dynamical and in a star-formation sense.

Type
Properties of Low Surface Brightness galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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