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Noncircular outer disks in unbarred S0 galaxies: NGC 502 and NGC 5485

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Highly noncircular outer stellar disks have been detected in two SA0 (unbarred) galaxies by comparing the spectroscopic data on the rotation of stars and the photometric data on the shape and orientation of isophotes. In NGC 502, the oval distortion of the disk is manifested in the shape of the inner and outer elliptical rings occupying wide radial zones between the bulge and the disk and at the outer disk edge; such a structure can be a consequence of the so-called “dry minor merger,” multiple cannibalization of gas-free satellites. In NGC 5485, the stellar kinematics is absolutely unrelated to the orientation of isophotes in the disk region, and for this galaxy the conclusion about its global triaxial structure is unavoidable.

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Original Russian Text © O.K. Sil’chenko, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 189–199.

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Sil’chenko, O.K. Noncircular outer disks in unbarred S0 galaxies: NGC 502 and NGC 5485. Astron. Lett. 42, 163–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773716030051

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