Abstract
Ring galaxies are believed to represent a special case of a collision between two galaxies, in which one of the galaxies impacts and passes through the center of another disk system (e.g. Lynds & Toomre 1976). Although rare, this kind of low orbital-angular-momentum collision leads to a recognizable structure, namely a luminous blue star-forming ring (Appleton & Marston 1997), which should be easily identifiable even at moderate redshift. Indeed, Lavery et al. (dy1996) have used this fact, and their relative rarity at low-redshift, to conclude that rings (and therefore presumably all collisions) are over-represented in deep HST fields.
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Appleton, P.N. (1999). Collisional Ring Galaxies. In: Barnes, J.E., Sanders, D.B. (eds) Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift. International Astronomical Union, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4665-4_20
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