The centers of early-type galaxies with HST. III. Non-parametric recovery of stellar luminosity distributions

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-113

  Gebhardt, Karl ^a   Richstone, Douglas ^a   Ajhar, Edward A ^b   Lauer, Tod R ^b   Byun, Yong Ik ^c   Kormendy, John ^c   Dressler, Alan ^d   Faber, S M ^e   Grillmair, Carl ^e   Tremaine, Scott ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 16144369296     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/117992     Document Type: Article

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