Bibcode
López-Corredoira, M.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #42, #7.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
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Description
Milky Way and most spiral galaxies present some features in the outer
part of its disk such as S-warping or U-warping, flaring, lopsidedness,
truncation/non-truncation and others, both for the stellar and the gas
component. In the present talk, I will review some of the galactic
dynamics hypotheses which try to explain these features: either in terms
of gravitational interaction, magnetic fields, or accretion of
intergalactic matter. The gravitational interaction may be among the
different components of the galaxy or between the spiral galaxy and
another companion galaxy. The accretion of intergalactic matter may be
either into the halo, with a later gravitational interaction between the
misaligned halo and the disc, or directly onto the disc. The phenomena
of the outer disc in spiral galaxies might be produced by more than a
mechanism. Nonetheless, the hypothesis of accretion of intergalactic
matter onto the disc presents several advantages over its competitors,
since it explains most of the relevant observed features, whereas other
hypotheses only explain them partially.