A portrait of Malin 2: a case study of a giant low surface brightness galaxy

The low surface brightness (LSB) disc galaxy Malin 2 challenges the standard theory of galaxy evolution because of its enormous total mass ∼2 × 1012 M, which must have been formed without recent major merger events. The aim of our work is to create a coherent picture of this exotic object by using n...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2014-02, Vol.437 (4), p.3072-3086
Hauptverfasser:	Kasparova, Anastasia V., Saburova, Anna S., Katkov, Ivan Yu, Chilingarian, Igor V., Bizyaev, Dmitry V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accretion disks Astrophysics Kinematics Spectrum analysis Star & galaxy formation
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