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- Title
Characteristics of clockwise and counterclockwise spiral galaxies.
- Authors
Hoehn, C.; Shamir, L.
- Abstract
We compared measurements of 126 501 spiral galaxies to test whether the photometry of galaxies that rotate clockwise is different from the photometry of galaxies that rotate counterclockwise for the purpose of testing whether there is a link between photometry and spin direction of galaxies. The rotation directionality of the galaxies was determined by converting the galaxy image to its radial intensity plot, and then the galaxies in each 30° RA sector were separated into clockwise and counterclockwise rotating galaxies. The mean and standard deviation of SDSS DR7 photometric attributes of clockwise and counterclockwise rotating galaxies were then compared. The results show no significant difference between galaxies that rotate clockwise and galaxies that rotate counterclockwise. (© 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
- Subjects
SPIRAL galaxies; ASTRONOMICAL photometry; ROTATION of galaxies; OPTICAL properties of spiral galaxies; RADIAL distribution function; GALAXY spectra
- Publication
Astronomische Nachrichten, 2014, Vol 335, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0004-6337
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/asna.201311955