Red giants in the halo of the S0 galaxy NGC 3115: A distance and a bimodal metallicity distribution

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 286, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 771-776

  Elson, Rebecca A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual: NGC 3115; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

COLOR; GIANT STARS; LUMINANCE;

GALAXIES ABUNDANCES; GALAXIES DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUALS; GALAXY: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 3115; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; METALLICITIES; PLANETARY NEBULA; RED GIANT BRANCHES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0000167133     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/286.3.771     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Ajhar E., Blakeslee J., Tonry J., 1994, AJ, 108, 2087
2. Ciardullo R., Jacoby G., Tonry J., 1993, ApJ, 419, 479
3. Da Costa G., Armandroff T., 1990, AJ, 100,162
4. Elson R., Santiago B., 1996, MNRAS, 280, 971
5. Elson R., Santiago B., Gilmore G., 1996, New Astron., 1, 1
6. Griffiths R. et al., 1994, ApJ, 437, 67
7. Holtzman J. A. et al., 1995a, PASP, 107, 156
8. Hotlzman J. A. et al., 1995b, PASP, 107, 1065
9. Kormendy J. R. et al., 1996, ApJ, 459, L57
10. Lee M. G., Freedman W., Madore B. F., 1993, ApJ, 417, 553
11. Madore B. F., Freedman W., 1995, AJ, 109, 1645
12. Mould J., Kristian J., 1986, ApJ, 305, 591
13. Ryan S., Norris J., 1993, in Smith G., Brodie J., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol 48, The Globular Cluster-Galaxy Connections. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco, p. 338
14. Sakai S, Madore B., Freedman W., 1996, ApJ, 461, 713
15. Soria R. et al., 1996, ApJ, 465, 79
16. Strom K., Strom S., Jensen E., Moller J., Thompson L., Thuan T., 1977, ApJ, 212, 335
17. Surma P., Seifert W., Bender R., 1990, A&A, 238, 67
18. van den Bergh S., 1991, PASP, 103, 1053