Is the shape of the luminosity profile of dwarf elliptical galaxies an useful distance indicator?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-26

  Binggeli, Bruno ^a   Jerjen, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012887144     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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