Origins of the Evil Eye: M64's Stellar Halo Reveals the Recent Accretion of an SMC-mass Satellite

M64, often called the “Evil Eye” galaxy, is unique among local galaxies. Beyond its dramatic, dusty nucleus, it also hosts an outer gas disk that counter-rotates relative to its stars. The mass of this outer disk is comparable to the gas content of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), prompting the ide...

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Hlavní autoři:	Adam Smercina, Eric F. Bell, Paul A. Price, Jeremy Bailin, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Roelof S. de Jong, Richard D’Souza, Katya Gozman, In Sung Jang, Antonela Monachesi, David Nidever, Colin T. Slater
Médium:	Artigo
Jazyk:	Inglês
Vydáno:	IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Edice:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Témata:	Galaxy stellar halos Galaxy mergers Stellar populations
On-line přístup:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acd5d1
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