Deep optical imaging of the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548: A long, very low surface brightness tail

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 102-110

  Tyson, J Anthony ^a   Fischer, Philippe ^b   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^c   McIlroy, Peter ^d   Wenk, Richard ^a   Huchra, John ^e   Macri, Lucas ^e   Neuschaefer, Lyman ^f   Sarajedini, Vicki ^g   Glazebrook, Karl ^h   Ratnatunga, Kavan ⁱ   Griffiths, Richard ⁱ  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f BCSi Inc   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: individual (NGC 5548); Galaxies: Seyfert

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039530527     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300395     Document Type: Article

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