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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 664, Issue 1, Pages 204-214Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/518471
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dark matter; galaxies : individual ( NGC 2976); galaxies : kinematics and dynamics galaxies : spiral; galaxies : structure
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We present a new procedure to fit nonaxisymmetric flow patterns to two-dimensional velocity maps of spiral galaxies. We concentrate on flows caused by barlike or oval distortions to the total potential, which may arise either from a non-axially symmetric halo or a bar in the luminous disk. We apply our method to high-quality CO and H alpha data for the nearby, low-mass spiral NGC2976, previously obtained by Simon et al., and find that a barlike model fits the data at least as well as their model with large radial flows. We find supporting evidence for the existence of a bar in the baryonic disk. Our model suggests that the azimuthally averaged central attraction in the inner part of this galaxy is larger than estimated by these authors. It is likely that the disk is also more massive, which will limit the increase to the allowed dark halo density. Allowance for barlike distortions in other galaxies may either increase or decrease the estimated central attraction.
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