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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Principais autores:	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
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado:	IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Assuntos:	Galaxy stellar halos Galaxy mergers Stellar populations
Acceso en liña:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acd5d1
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