Extending the Search for Counterrotating Gas and Stars in Galaxies: A   Study of Late-Type Dwarfs
  In a previous study on gas-stellar counterrotation for a large sample of E/S0 and spiral galaxies (Kannappan & Fabricant 2001), two dwarf irregular galaxies were included, of which one was tentatively identified as a counterrotator. Here we extend the search for counterrotation to include 10 more irregular/spiral dwarf galaxies. We find that all systems with well defined gas and stellar rotation show kinematics consistent with co-rotation. However, we see evidence of decoupled gas and stellar kinematics in >~ 50% of the sample, possibly reflecting minor interactions too small to create large-scale gas-stellar counterrotation. 
J. M. Guie (UT Austin), S. J. Kannappan (UT Austin), Z. Balog (U. of   Szeged), P. Berlind (FLWO)