Bibcode
Comerón, Sébastien; Knapen, Johan H.; Beckman, John E.
Bibliographical reference
"Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 131, Proceedings of "The Universe Under the Microscope - Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution", held 21-25 April 2008, in Bad Honnef, Germany. Editors: Rainer Schoedel, Andreas Eckart, Susanne Pfalzner and Eduardo Ros, pp. 012046 (2008)."
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10
2008
Citations
3
Refereed citations
3
Description
Ultra-compact nuclear rings (UCNRs) can be defined as those galactic
circumnuclear rings with a radius inferior to 200 parsecs [1]. Because
very high spatial resolution is needed, this population has not been
studied systematically until now. One important issue that has to be
solved is whether UCNRs have an origin similar to larger circumnuclear
rings, which are related to inner Lindblad resonances, or whether they
have a different origin. We present the first results of a survey
performed on 487 galaxies imaged by HST, to find and characterize UCNRs.
These results include the detection of new rings as well as the
confirmation of rings that were already known. We present a list of 23
reliably detected UCNRs and discuss their origin.