Spiral Galaxies as Enantiomers: Chirality, an Underlying Feature in Chemistry and Astrophysics Export

@article{citeulike:4698490, abstract = {Spiral galaxies are axi-symmetric objects showing 2D-chirality when projected onto a plane. Features in common with tetrahedral molecules are pointed out, in particular the existence of a preferred chiral modality for genetic galaxies as in aminoacids and sugars. Environmental effects can influence the intrinsic chirality of originally isolated stellar systems so that a progressive loss of chirality is recognised in the Hubble morphological sequence of galaxies.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Capozziello, Salvatore and Lattanzi, Alessandra}, citeulike-article-id = {4698490}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509144}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0509144}, day = {16}, eprint = {physics/0509144}, keywords = {2d, chirality, helicity, molecules, spirality}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2009-06-01 10:19:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Spiral Galaxies as Enantiomers: Chirality, an Underlying Feature in Chemistry and Astrophysics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509144}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4698490 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4698490 N2 - Spiral galaxies are axi-symmetric objects showing 2D-chirality when projected onto a plane. Features in common with tetrahedral molecules are pointed out, in particular the existence of a preferred chiral modality for genetic galaxies as in aminoacids and sugars. Environmental effects can influence the intrinsic chirality of originally isolated stellar systems so that a progressive loss of chirality is recognised in the Hubble morphological sequence of galaxies. TI - Spiral Galaxies as Enantiomers: Chirality, an Underlying Feature in Chemistry and Astrophysics KW - 2d KW - chirality KW - helicity KW - molecules KW - spirality AU - Capozziello, Salvatore AU - Lattanzi, Alessandra PY - 2005/Sep/16/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509144 ER -