Coexistence of chiral symmetry restoration and random orientation of galaxies

  • B. Aryal
  • S. Paudel
  • W. Saurer
Publication date
December 2007
Publisher
EDP Sciences

Abstract

We studied the chiral symmetry restoration and the spatial orientation of 2288 spiral and spiral barred galaxies that have radial velocities (RV) less than 5000 km s-1. A random direction of the rotation of galaxies is assumed in order to classify the structural modes. The distribution of spin vector and spin vector projections of leading and trailing arm galaxies in the total sample and subsamples are studied. We use chi-square, auto-correlation and Fourier tests in order to discriminate the preferred alignments from the random alignments. A good correlation between the random alignment and the chiral symmetry is noticed in the Local Supercluster (RV < 3000 km s-1) and in galaxies nearby the Local Supercluster (3000 < RV (km s-1) ≤ 5000). ...

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