How Spin Affects Galaxy Shape
It sounds simple, but measuring a galaxy’s true 3D shape is a tricky problem that astronomers first tried to solve 90 years ago.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to reliably measure how a galaxy’s shape depends on any of its other properties – in this case, its rotation speed,” said research team leader Dr Caroline Foster of the University of Sydney, who completed this research while working at the Australian Astronomical Observatory.These are galaxies from the SAMI survey, imaged with Japan’s Subaru telescope.
Credit: D. Taranu (University of Western Australia), C. Foster (University of Sydney), NAOJ (the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Galaxies can be shaped like a pancake, a sea urchin or a football, or anything in between.
Faster-spinning galaxies are flatter than their slower-spinning siblings, the team found.
Credit: Australian Astronomical Observatory
“And among spiral galaxies, which have disks of stars, the faster-spinning ones have more circular disks,” said team member Professor Scott Croom of the University of Sydney.
The team made its findings with SAMI (the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field unit), an instrument jointly developed by The University of Sydney and the Australian Astronomical Observatory with funding from CAASTRO, the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics.
SAMI gives detailed information about the movement of gas and stars inside galaxies. It can examine 13 galaxies at a time and so collect data on huge numbers of them.
Dr Foster’s team used a sample of 845 galaxies, over three times more than the biggest previous study. This large number was the key to solving the shape problem.
Because a galaxy’s shape is the result of past events such as merging with other galaxies, knowing its shape also tells us about the galaxy’s history.
Vivienne Reiner
The ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/09/how-spin-affects-galaxy-shape.html
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Really ! a twelve year old with a basic understanding of gravity and the centrifugal force could have worked this out.
The “SPIN” is a false manifestation from NASA. Gravity is nothing more the a guess “theory” ! All the “twelve year olds are being misled and lied to, then they grow up to be deceived and ignorant adults like you !