Near-infrared imaging of early-type galaxies. IV. The physical origins of the fundamental plane scaling relations

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1606-1625

  Pahre, Michael A ^a,b   De Carvalho, Reinaldo R ^a,c   Djorgovski, S G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: stellar content; Infrared radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000333219     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300545     Document Type: Article

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