Are luminous cD halos formed by the disruption of dwarf galaxies?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 475, Issue 2 PART II, 1997, Pages

  López Cruz, Omar ^a,b,c   Yee, H K C ^a,c   Brown, James P ^a   Jones, Christine ^d   Forman, William ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: luminosity functions, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744437725     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310474     Document Type: Article

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