Barred_Magellanic_spiral

Magellanic spiral

Magellanic spiral

Spiral galaxies with one spiral arm

"SBm" redirects here. For other uses, see SBM.

A Magellanic spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with only one spiral arm. Magellanic spiral galaxies are classified as the type Sm (with sub-categories SAm, SBm, SABm); the prototype galaxy and namesake for Magellanic spirals is the Large Magellanic Cloud, an SBm galaxy. They are usually smaller dwarf galaxies and can be considered to be intermediate between dwarf spiral galaxies and irregular galaxies.

Magellanic spirals

SAm galaxies are a type of unbarred spiral galaxy, while SBm are a type of barred spiral galaxy.[1] SABm are a type of intermediate spiral galaxy.

Type Sm and Im galaxies have also been categorized as irregular galaxies with some structure (type Irr-1).[1] Sm galaxies are typically disrupted and asymmetric.[2] dSm galaxies are dwarf spiral galaxies or dwarf irregular galaxies, depending on categorization scheme.

The Magellanic spiral classification was introduced by Gerard de Vaucouleurs, along with Magellanic irregular (Im), when he revamped the Hubble classification of galaxies.

Grades of Magellanic Spiral Galaxies

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List of Magellanic spirals

Barred (SBm)

Intermediate (SABm)

Unbarred (SAm)

See also

References

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    Linda S. Sparke, John Sill Gallagher, Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction, 2ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85593-8
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    citeBase; Neutral Hydrogen in the Interacting Magellanic Spirals NGC 4618/4625 Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Stephanie J. Bush; Eric M. Wilcots; (accessed 1 March 2009)
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    Paul B. Eskridge; "Recent Star and Cluster Formation in the Nearby Magellanic Spiral NGC 1311"; 'American Astronomical Society Meeting' 208, #14.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.93; (accessed 1 March 2009)
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    University of Wisconsin, BARRED MAGELLANIC SPIRALS (accessed 1 March 2009)
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    NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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