Bibcode
Prieto, M.; Campos-Aguilar, A.; Garcia, C.
Bibliographical reference
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Summer School on Evolutionary Phenomena in Galaxies, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, July 4-15, 1988 Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 157, no. 1-2, July 1989, p. 321-329.
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1989
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Description
The present examination of the relation between the global parameters of
spiral galaxies and their morphological type represents rotational
velocity V at 25 mag/sq arcsec radius against this radius R for a
56-galaxy sample. Isolines of total mass, angular momentum, and mean
surface density, plotted above the V-R diagram for isolated galaxies
with circular motion in centrifugal equilibrium, indicate that
morphological type is represented by mean surface density, V-squared/R.
Taking V-squared/R as representative of morphological type, the
empirical Tully-Fisher relation and the dependence of the slope and the
zero point on the morphological type can be theoretically deduced. For
every galaxy morphological type, there is a critical mass above which a
dynamical behavior change occurs.