A comparison of surface brightness profiles for ultracompact dwarfs and dwarf elliptical nuclei: Implications for the "threshing" scenario

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 623, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages

  De Propris, R ^a   Phillipps, S ^a   Drinkwater, M J ^b   Gregg, M D ^c,f   Jones, J B ^d   Evstigneeva, E ^b   Bekki, K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444413473     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430207     Document Type: Article

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