An Atlas of GALEX UV Images of Interacting Galaxies

(2) Iowa State University; (3) UC Riverside); Beverly J. Smith (1); Curtis Struck (2); Mark Hancock (3); Mark L. Giroux (1); Sabrina Hurlock (1) ((1) East Tennessee State University

arxiv: 0908.3712 · v1 · submitted 2009-08-26 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

An Atlas of GALEX UV Images of Interacting Galaxies

Mark L. Giroux (1) , Beverly J. Smith (1) , Curtis Struck (2) , Mark Hancock (3) , Sabrina Hurlock (1) ((1) East Tennessee State University , (2) Iowa State University , (3) UC Riverside) This is my paper

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We present GALEX ultraviolet images from a survey of strongly interacting galaxy pairs, and compare with images at other wavelengths. The tidal features are particularly striking in the UV images. Numerous knots of star formation are visible throughout the disks and the tails and bridges. We also identify a possible `Taffy' galaxy in our sample, which may have been produced by a head-on collision between two disk galaxies.

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