Comparing peanut-shaped `bulges' to n-body simulations and orbital calculations

Oct, 2002
4 pages
Published in:
  • Astrophys.Space Sci. 284 (2003) 753-756
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a near-infrared K_n-band photometric study of edge-on galaxies with a box/peanut-shaped `bulge'. The morphology of the galaxies is analysed using unsharp masking and fits to the vertical surface brightness profiles, and the results are compared to N-body simulations and orbital calculations of barred galaxies. Both theoretical approaches reproduce the main structures observed.