Brightest cluster galaxy profile shapes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 465, Issue 2 PART I, 1996, Pages 534-547

  Graham, Alister ^a   Lauer, Tod R ^b,c   Colless, Matthew ^a   Postman, Marc ^d,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^e CTIO ^*

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344448714     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177440     Document Type: Article

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