Potential of the Surface Brightness Fluctuations method to measure distances to dwarf elliptical galaxies in nearby clusters

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-53

  Mieske, S ^a,b   Hilker, M ^b   Infante, L ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: distances and redshift; Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALAXIES; PHOTOMETRY; SPACE RESEARCH;

DWARF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; GALAXY CLUSTERS; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS FLUCTUATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038241049     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030331     Document Type: Article

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