DocumentCode
3663618
Title
Physical properties of NGC 3256 in radio and infrared domain
Author
Israa Abdulqasim Mohammed Ali;Zamri Zainal Abidin;Hwang Chorng-Yuan
Author_Institution
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
fYear
2015
Firstpage
306
Lastpage
309
Abstract
In this study, we have chosen the merger galaxy NGC 3256 to study the physical properties in the radio and Infrared domain. The former was taken from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the CO (J=1-0) observations to estimate the central rotation velocity and total mass of the galaxy NGC 3256 within the synthesis beam size of 7.12" × 4.9" (or 1.2 kpc × 8.3 kpc) image. We found that our current spatial resolution has a central velocity of 135 km/s and its total mass is 5 × 109 M⊙ within a radius of 1.2 kpc. We made a comparison with the only previous similar study on this galaxy which focuses on radius of 10" =1.7 kpc. We found good an agreement in terms of results for central rotation velocity and total mass. The Infrared data was taken from Spitzer archive at band 3.6 μm to study one of the physical features of galaxy formation, which is luminosity. The estimated luminosity of galaxy is an appropriate tool to understand the galaxy evolution and to estimate the stellar mass.
Keywords
"Telescopes","Corporate acquisitions","Arrays","Kinematics","Imaging","Aerospace electronics","Space vehicles"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Space Science and Communication (IconSpace), 2015 International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN
2165-431X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IconSpace.2015.7283742
Filename
7283742
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