Tightness of the color-magnitude relation of elliptical galaxies and the epoch of major galaxy merging

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 504, Issue 1 PART I, 1998, Pages 42-49

  Shioya, Yasuhiro ^a   Bekki, Kenji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044441912     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306086     Document Type: Article

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