Proceedings of the Workshop
"The Magellanic Clouds and Other Dwarf Galaxies"
of the Bonn/Bochum-Graduiertenkolleg

Tidal Dwarf Galaxies

P.-A. Duc, U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben, and P. Weilbacher

 Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Sample of interacting systems from the Arp & Madore catalog. Combined ``true'' color images from BVR frames obtained with SUSI on the ESO NTT. The blue clumps in the tidal tails are the progenitors of tidal dwarfs
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. VLA H I contour maps of two interacting systems, Arp 105 and NGC 7252, superimposed on optical V-band images (adapted from Duc et al. 1997 and Hibbard et al. 1994)
[Further Images]
Fig. 3a Fig. 3b
Fig. 3. a) Oxygen abundance vs. absolute blue magnitude for our sample of tidal dwarfs (black points) and a sample of isolated dwarf galaxies (open points; from Richer & McCall 1995).
b) Velocity profiles of the ionized gas for a sample of tidal dwarfs (adapted from Duc & Mirabel 1998)
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