barlenses

barlenses

1. plural of barlens
   • 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 (S${\displaystyle ^{4}}$G)”, in arXiv‎:

     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..

• braneless