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What are S0 (0) Galaxies?
Among early-type galaxies with almost circular isophotes E0 and E1 galaxies
are, at 99.3% significance, more luminous than face-on objects classified as S0
(0) and S(0) (1). This result supports the view that rotation and "diskiness"
are more important in the outer regions of faint-early type galaxies than they
are for more luminous galaxies of very early morphological type.Comment: 7 pages. 0 figures. Astrophysical Jounral Letters in pres
Luminosities of Barred and Unbarred S0 Galaxies
Lenticular galaxies with M_B < -21.5 are almost exclusively unbarred, whereas
both barred and unbarred objects occur at fainter luminosity levels. This
effect is observed both for objects classified in blue light, and for those
that were classified in the infrared. This result suggests that the most
luminous (massive) S0 galaxies find it difficult to form bars. As a result the
mean luminosity of unbarred lenticular galaxies in both B and IR light is
observed to be ~0.4 mag brighter than than that of barred lenticulars. A small
contribution to the observed luminosity difference that is found between SA0
and SB0 galaxies may also be due to the fact that there is an asymmetry between
the effects of small classification errors on SA0 and SB0 galaxies. An E galaxy
might be misclassified as an S0, or an S0 as an E. However, an E will never be
misclassified an SB0, nor will an SB0 ever be called an E. This asymmetry is
important because elliptical (E) galaxies are typically twice as luminous as
lenticular (S0) galaxies. The present results suggest that the evolution of
luminous lenticular galaxies may be closely linked to that of elliptical
galaxies, whereas fainter lenticulars might be more closely associated with
ram-pressure stripped spiral galaxies. Finally it is pointed out that fine
details of the galaxy formation process might account for some of the
differences between the classifications of the same galaxy by individual
competent morphologists.Comment: Astrophysical Journal, in pres
Newman Tamburino solutions with an aligned Maxwell field
We prove that there exists no aligned Einstein Maxwell generalization of the
spherical class of Newman Tamburino solutions. The presence of an aligned
Maxwell field automatically leads to the cylindrical class.Comment: 5 page
Petrov type D pure radiation fields of Kundt's class
We present all Petrov type D pure radiation space-times, with or without
cosmological constant, with a shear-free, non-diverging geodesic principal null
congruence
Spiral Structure and Galaxy Environment
Among 330 normal spirals of types Sa-Sc the fraction of objects exhibiting
``ring'', ``intermediate'' and ``spiral'' arm varieties does not correlated
with environment. A similar conclusion appears to apply to the arm varieties of
123 barred spirals of types SBa-SBc. It is concluded that, among the northern
Shapley-Ames galaxies, the distinction between the spiral and ring varieties of
spiral arms is, within the accuracy of presently available data, independent of
galaxy environment. This result suggests that the detailed morphology of spiral
arms depends primarily on parent galaxy characteristics, rather than on the
galactic environment.Comment: 8 pages. no figures. To be published in the August 2202 issue of A
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