barlenses

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A form of barlens — A lens-like component of a barred spiral galaxy whose extent along the bar major axis is shorter than the bar

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of barlens

    We also show observational evidence that barlenses indeed form part of the bar, and that a large fraction of the inner lenses in the non-barred galaxies could be former barlenses in which the thin outer bar component has dissolved..

    2015, M. Herrera-Endoqui, S. Díaz-García, E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, “Catalogue of the morphological features in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S⁴G)”, in arXiv

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

blearnessbraneless
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