Measuring shapes of galaxy images - I. Ellipticity and orientation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 933-948

  Rahman, Nurar ^a   Shandarin, Sergei F ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: statistics; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; SURVEYS;

CLUSTERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS; GALAXIES CLUSTERS; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; MORPHOLOGICAL MEASURES; NONPARAMETRICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0142086831     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06735.x     Document Type: Review

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