Elliptical galaxies from mergers of discs

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 357, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 753-772

  González García, Antonio César ^a,b   Balcells, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GALAXIES; LUMINANCE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

DISK GALAXIES; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; ELLIPTICALS; GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR CD; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; MASS RATIO; MASS-FRACTION;

MERGING;

EID: 14544284023     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08706.x     Document Type: Article

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