Mergers between elliptical galaxies and the thickening of the Fundamental Plane

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 342, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Gonzalez Garcia A C ^a   Van Albada, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: interactions; Methods: N body simulations

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR CD; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; L-VALUES; METHODS:N-BODY SIMULATIONS; MODEL-FOLLOWING; ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS; SCALING RELATIONS; SIMPLE++;

MERGING;

EID: 0142137111     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06746.x     Document Type: Article

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