The entropy of elliptical galaxies in Coma: A clue for a distance indicator

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Gerbal, D ^a,b   Neto, G B Lima ^c,d   Marquez I ^a,e   Verhagen, H ^a,f  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE LYON   (France)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: clusters: individual: coma; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: fundamental parameters

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ENTROPY; MOBILITY AIDS FOR BLIND PERSONS;

DISTANCE SCALE; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; GALAXIES DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS; GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: COMA; GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR CD; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; PRIMARY PARAMETERS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SPECIFIC ENTROPY; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0006234077     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/285.4.L41     Document Type: Article

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