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The ‘sleeping beauty’ galaxy NGC 4826: an almost textbook example of the abelian higgs vorto-source (-sink)

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It is demonstrated that the kinematic ‘peculiarity’ of the early Sab galaxy NGC 4826 can easily be understood in terms of the Abelian Higgs (AH) model of spiral galaxies. A cylindrically symmetric AH vorto-source (-sink) with a disk-to-bulge ratio ℧ > 1 is discussed and the distributions of the diagonal components of the corresponding stress-energy tensorT μνare presented. It is argued that the sign-changing componentT ϕϕcould account for the existence of twocounter-rotating gas disks whilenegative values ofT ϒϒimply inward gas motions as observed in the outer and transition regions of the galaxy.

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Saniga, M. The ‘sleeping beauty’ galaxy NGC 4826: an almost textbook example of the abelian higgs vorto-source (-sink). Astrophys Space Sci 225, 17–20 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00657840

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