The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets
(2019)
Journal Article
Holwerda, B. W., Kelvin, L., Baldry, I., Lintott, C., Alpaslan, M., Pimbblet, K. A., Liske, J., Kitching, T., Bamford, S., De Jong, J., Bilicki, M., Hopkins, A., Bridge, J., Steele, R., Jacques, A., Goswami, S., Kusmic, S., Roemer, W., Kruk, S., Popescu, C. C., …Kitching, T. (2019). The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets. Astronomical Journal, 158(3), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2886
Dust lanes bisect the plane of a typical edge-on spiral galaxy as a dark optical absorption feature. Their appearance is linked to the gravitational stability of spiral disks; the fraction of edge-on galaxies that displays a dust lane is a direct ind... Read More about The frequency of dust lanes in edge-on spiral galaxies identified by galaxy Zoo in KiDS Imaging of GAMA Targets.