Chin. Phys. Lett.  2000, Vol. 17 Issue (1): 70-72    DOI:
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Dependence of Spiral Galaxy Distribution on Viewing Angle in RC3
MA Jun;SONG Guo-Xuan;SHU Cheng-Gang
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MA Jun, SONG Guo-Xuan, SHU Cheng-Gang 2000 Chin. Phys. Lett. 17 70-72
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Abstract The normalized inclination distributions are presented for the spiral galaxies in RC3. The results show that, except for the bin of 8l°-90°, in which the apparent minor isophotal diameters that are used to obtain the inclinations are affected by the central bulges, the distributions for Sa, Sab, Scd and Sd are well consistent with the Monte-Carlo simulation of random inclinations within 3-σ, and Sb and Sbc almost, but Sc is different. One reason for the difference between the real distribution and the Monte-Carlo simulation of Sc may be that some quite inclined spirals, the arms of which are inherently loosely wound on the galactic plane and should be classified to Sc galaxies, have been incorrectly classified to the earlier ones, because the tightness of spiral arms which is one of the criteria of the Hubble classification in RC3 is different between on the galactic plane and on the tangent plane of the celestial sphere. Our result also implies that there might exist biases in the luminosity functions of individual Hubble types if spiral galaxies are only classified visually.

Keywords: 98.52.Nr      98.62.Ve     
Published: 01 January 2000
PACS:  98.52.Nr (Spiral galaxies)  
  98.62.Ve (Statistical and correlative studies of properties (luminosity and mass functions; mass-to-light ratio; Tully-Fisher relation, etc.))  
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