Abstract
It is demonstrated that the kinematic ‘peculiarity’ of the early Sab galaxy NGC 4826 can easily be understood in terms of the Abelian Higgs (AH) model of spiral galaxies. A cylindrically symmetric AH vorto-source (-sink) with a disk-to-bulge ratio ℧ > 1 is discussed and the distributions of the diagonal components of the corresponding stress-energy tensorTμνare presented. It is argued that the sign-changing componentTϕϕcould account for the existence of twocounter-rotating gas disks whilenegative values ofTϒϒimply inward gas motions as observed in the outer and transition regions of the galaxy.
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