Constraints on galaxy formation from α-enhancement in luminous elliptical galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 302, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 537-548

  Thomas, D ^a   Greggio, L ^a,b   Bender, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MERGING; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; STARS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FORMATION TIME; GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR CD; GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GALAXY: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; INITIAL MASS; MASS FUNCTIONS; STARS FORMATION; TIME-SCALES;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0041823001     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02138.x     Document Type: Article

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