The central gas systems of early-type galaxies traced by dust features, based on the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 archival images

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-130

  Tomita, Akihiko ^a   Aoki, Kentaro ^b,c   Watanabe, Masaru ^b,c,d   Takata, Tadafumi ^b   Ichikawa, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: ISM; ISM: dust, extinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000976330     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301440     Document Type: Article

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