Bibcode
DOI
Corsini, E. M.; Debattista, Victor P.; Aguerri, J. A. L.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 599, Issue 1, pp. L29-L32.
Fecha de publicación:
12
2003
Revista
Número de citas
93
Número de citas referidas
68
Descripción
We present the surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 2950,
which is a nearby and undisturbed SB0 galaxy hosting two nested stellar
bars. We use the Tremaine-Weinberg method to measure the pattern speed
of the primary bar. This also permits us to establish directly and for
the first time that the two nested bars are rotating with different
pattern speeds and, in particular, that the rotation frequency of the
secondary bar is higher than that of the primary one.
Based on observations made with the UK Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope and the
Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo operated at the Spanish
Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias by the Isaac Newton Group and the
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, respectively.