Hydrostatic torii and ring galaxies

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Session 22 -- Galaxy Structure and Kinematics
Oral presentation, Monday, 30, 1994, 2:00-3:30

[22.02] Hydrostatic torii and ring galaxies

W. Klu\'zniak (U. of Wisconsin)

A mass of gas of constant specific angular momentum, which is in hydrostatic equilibrium in an attractive external gravitational potential, assumes the form of a torus reminiscent of structures observed in ring galaxies.

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