Disk corrugations in IC 2233

Here we present measurements of the vertical structure of this galaxy at several additional wavelengths, ranging from the far-ultraviolet to the far-infrared. We find that undular patterns with amplitude <~5"(<~250pc) are visible in a variety of Population I tracers in IC 2233, including the young to intermediate-age stars, the HII regions, and the dust.

However, the vertical excursions become less pronounced in the older stellar populations traced by the mid-infrared light. This suggests that the process leading to the vertical displacements may be linked with the regulation of star formation in the galaxy. We have also identified a relationship between the locations of the density corrugations and small-amplitude (<~5km/s) velocity undulations in the HI rotation curve.